Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bayan isowa a Alkahira, Dempsey ya sami HQ na rundunarsa a cikin ajiya saboda dogon layin sadarwa zuwa rundunar soja ta takwas na iya ci gaba da runduna biyu kawai (Horrock's X Corps da Lieutenant-General Oliver Leese's XXX Corps). Saboda haka an yi amfani da shi wajen shirya mamayewar Allied na Sicily
Ka yi haƙuri. Babban shirin ya samo asali ne daga wani Algeria da aka sani da Force 141, a karkashin Manjo Janar Charles Gairdner. Dempsey na ɗan lokaci ya ɗauki matsayin shugaban ma'aikata na Force 545, ma'aikatan da ke da alhakin tsara ɓangaren rundunar soji ta takwas ta Burtaniya a cikin aikin, har sai Manjo Janar Francis de Guingand, shugaban ma'aikata na rundunar soji ta takwas, za a iya cetonsa don karɓar mulki. Dempsey ba ya son shirin, wanda ya hada da rabuwa, rabuwa. Ya dauki takunkuminsa zuwa Montgomery a ranar 13 ga Maris, 1943, sa'an nan kuma zuwa Gairdner kwana biyar bayan haka. De Guingand ya karbi mulki a ranar 17 ga Afrilu, ya ba Dempsey damar komawa umurnin XIII Corps. Ya tattauna shirin tare da Dempsey, kuma ya shirya godiya ga Montgomery. Montgomery ya ba da takardun da ya yi wa Janar Harold Alexander, kwamandan rundunar sojojin 15, a ranar 24 ga Afrilu. Bayan wasu muhawara, Babban Kwamandan Sojojin, Janar Dwight D. Eisenhower ya yarda da shirin Montgomery da aka sake dubawa a ranar 3 ga Mayu.