Dee ihe na-esote paragraf a - N'ọnwa Ọgọstụ 1944, e nyere Ridgway iwu nke XVIII Airborne Corps. Ọchịchị nke 82nd Airborne Division gafere Brigadier General James M. Gavin, onye jere ozi dị ka Ridgway's Assistant Division Commander. Ọrụ mbụ metụtara Ridgway bụ Operation Market Garden ebe 101st Airborne Division ya kwụsịrị nso Eindhoven iji chekwaa Bridges dị n'etiti Eindhoven na Veghel n'okporo ụzọ Arnhem. Ridgway so ndị agha ya wee nọrọ n'ihu nkewa nke ọgụ ahụ. Ndị agha nke XVIII Airborne nyere aka kwụsị ma chụghachi ndị agha German n'oge Agha nke Bulge na Disemba. N'ọnwa Machị n'afọ 1945, ya na ndị Briten 6th Airborne Division na United States 17th Airborne Division nọ n'okpuru iwu, o du ndị agha ahụ banye na Germany n'oge Operation Varsity
, bụ onye so n'ụgbọelu nke Operation Plunder, ma merụọ ya ahụ n'ubu site na mgbawa grenade ndị Germany na Machị 24, 1945. Ọ duru ndị agha ahụ na mwakpo ndị Western Allied na Germany. N'ọnwa June n'afọ 1945, e buliri ya n'ọkwa lieutenant general. Na njedebe nke agha ahụ, Ridgway nọ n'ụgbọelu na-aga ọrụ ọhụrụ na ebe a na-alụ agha na Pacific, n'okpuru Ọchịagha Douglas MacArthur, onye ya na ya jere ozi mgbe ọ bụ onye isi na United States Military Academy na West Point.