Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Nguva pfupi mushure mekugadzwa kwemuzinda, expeditionary yakabviswa kubva kuzita rayo nekuda kwezvikonzero zvekuchengetedza kushanda. Pashure pokutarisira nhimbe muTunisia, kupinda muSicily
uye kupindirwa kweItaly uye zvikamu zvekutanga zveItaly Campaign, Eisenhower akasiya AFHQ ndokudzokera kuEngland mukupera kwa1943 kuzotora kutungamira kwemauto ari kuungana kuOperation Overlord, zita rekodhi rekumhara kweAllied kuchamhembe kweFrance. Akatsiviwa paAFHQ naField Marshal Sir Henry M. Wilson. Zita raWilson rakava Supreme Commander, Mediterranean Theatre of Operations, uye mauto eAmerica akauya pasi paLt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, uyo akanga ari Mutungamiri Mukuru, ETO kubva muna May 1943. Somunhu akadaro Wilson akashandisa kudzora kwakarongwa pamusoro pemushandirapamwe muItaly. Akatsigira zvakasimba kupindirwa kweGermany kuburikidza nemupata weDanube (panzvimbo yeOperation Dragoon, zita rekodhi rekupinda kweAllied muSouthern France), asi izvi hazvina kuitika sezvo Mauto eAllied muItaly (AAI) aigara achineta kutsigira mamwe matheaters ehondo. Wilson akanga ari mutungamiriri kwegore risingasviki, kusvikira atumirwa kuWashington muna December 1944 somukuru weBritish Joint Staff Mission. Wilson akatsiviwa naField Marshal Sir Harold Alexander uyo aive Supreme Commander uye mutungamiri weAFHQ kusvika pakupera kwehondo.