Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te marama o Akuhata 1944, i whakawhiwhia a Ridgway ki te mana o te XVIII Airborne Corps. Ko te whakahau o te 82nd Airborne Division i whakawhiti ki a Brigadier General James M. Gavin, nana nei i mahi hei Kaihauturu Kaihauturu o Ridgway. Ko te mahi tuatahi e pa ana ki a Ridgway ko Operation Market Garden i te wa i heke mai ai tana 101st Airborne Division i te taha o Eindhoven ki te tiaki i nga Piriti i waenga o Eindhoven me Veghel i te huarahi ki Arnhem. I heke a Ridgway me ana hoia, a ko ia kei mua i nga wehenga o te pakanga. I awhina te XVIII Airborne Corps ki te aukati me te pana i nga hoia Tiamana i te Pakanga o te Bulge i te marama o Tihema. I te Poutu-te-rangi 1945, me te 6th Airborne Division o Ingarangi me te United States 17th Airborne Division i raro i te whakahau, i arahina e ia te roopu ki Tiamana i te wa o te pakanga o te Tiamana.
Operation Varsity, te waahanga rererangi o Operation Plunder, a i whara i te pokohiwi e nga waahanga o te grenade Tiamana i te Poutu-te-rangi 24, 1945. I arahina e ia te ope taua i te whakaekenga o te Hau-ā-uru o Tiamana. I te Pipiri 1945 i whakatairangahia ia ki te rangatira rangatira. I te mutunga o te pakanga, i runga a Ridgway i te rererangi e anga ana ki tetahi mahi hou i te papa pakanga o te Moananui a Kiwa, i raro i te rangatira o te ope taua a Douglas MacArthur, i mahi tahi ia me ia i a ia e rangatira ana i te United States Military Academy i West Point.