Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - An nada shi Mataimakin Daraktan Kula da Lafiya na XXX Corps, amma da sauri ya koma a watan Fabrairun 1943 don zama Mataimakin Daraktan Kula da Lafiya na Rundunar Soja ta Takwas, a lokacin da ya zo karkashin sabon rukunin rundunar soji na 18 don ba da damar daidaitawa tsakanin sojojin da ke karkashin jagorancin Birtaniya da Amurkawa. A matsayin DDMS, Sojoji na takwas kuma a lokacin Brigadier (na wucin gadi), a karkashin Field Marshal Montgomery, ya shiga cikin tsarawa da aiwatar da Operation Husky, mamayewar Sicily
a watan Yulin 1943, wanda a wannan lokacin shi ne mafi girma amphibious hari taba kafa. An ambace shi a cikin Wasiku "a cikin girmamawa ga ayyuka masu daraja a Sicily" don aikinsa a wannan lokacin. Daga Yuli 1943 zuwa 1944 shi ne Mataimakin Daraktan Kula da Lafiya na 3rd Advance Base.