As one of only three war correspondents allowed to travel with the Royal Navy, Divine reported on the war situation in the Mediterranean and in the Atlantic. To be selected as a correspondent aboard a British warship at this time was a considerable achievement in itself as the Royal Navy was suspicious of journalists and refused to allow any aboard at the beginning of the war. Many of his observations were incorporated into "Destroyers’ War: A Million Miles by the Eighth Flotilla" (1943). He was also present during "Operation Torch" – the American landings in North Africa in 1943, and travelled over the Atlas Mountains with the first US troops to fight the German army in the Second World War. At D-Day ("Operation Overlord") he accompanied the first flotilla of tank landing craft. The final phase of the war was spent with the American Pacific Fleet in the last battles against Japan. Despite his work as a correspondent he still found time to write "The Sun Shall Greet Them," (1941), "Tunnel from Calais" (1943), and "Road to Tunis," (1944). After the war, he received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition of his service during the conflict.