Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te Mahuru 1944, i tukuna e Cole te NWA ki a Air Commodore Alan Charlesworth. I tēnei wā o te pakanga, kei te anga whakamua ngā Rōpū Whakakotahitanga ki te raki, ā, kua heke te tere o ngā mahi i te rohe o Darwin. I arahina e te Kaihautū Ropu a Peter Jeffrey te Nama 1 Wing ki nga Moutere o Tanimbar me te patu i nga whaainga i Selaru, engari i kii ia ki a Caldwell e whakaaro ana ia ko te whakaekenga he whakapau kaha me te mahi noa ki te whakanui i te wairua o ana paerata. I whakaarahia e Charlesworth nga awangawanga mo te No. 80 Wing, me te whakatupato i te whakahau teitei ka heke te wairua ki te kore e whakawhiwhia ki tetahi mahi kaha ake i roto i te pakanga, ki te whakawhiti ranei ki te tonga o Ahitereiria mo te okiokinga. I te Oketopa, i whakahaua te parirau ki te wehe atu i te NWA mo Morotai ki te hono atu ki te First Tactical Air Force; i mahue tenei ki te NWA me nga roopu tekau ma rua i a ia, tae atu ki tetahi waahanga Liberator me etahi atu roopu Spitfire e toru. I taua wā, i tautoko a NWA i te
whakaeke i runga i Leyte ki whakaeke i runga i tauranga, ngā wāhi hinu, me te kaipuke i roto i te Dutch East Indies te whakamahi i Beaufighters, Mitchells, me Liberators. I haere tonu ēnei mahi puta noa i Whiringa-a-rangi me Tihema. I whakawhitihia te kapa No. 31 mai i Coomalie ki te First Tactical Air Force i Morotai i te Hakihea. I taua wa, ko nga kaimahi o te tari matua o te NWA he 651, tae atu ki nga rangatira 156.