Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Semutungamiri anotungamira wehondo yekurwisa mhepo, Coningham aive sarudzo iri pachena yekuraira 2nd Tactical Air Force muNorth-West European mushandirapamwe pasi peAir Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, achiraira maAllied Expeditionary Air Forces, uye muna Ndira 1944 akayeuchidzwa kuBritain kwaakabatsira kuronga rutsigiro rwemhepo kuNormandy. Ukama hwake naMontgomery hwakakanganisika zvikuru pashure pokumhara. Vaviri ava vaiwanzotarisana apo Montgomery aigara achiedza kudarika Coningham, uyo aiva nzvimbo yakatarwa yekutaurirana kune zvikumbiro zvekutsigirwa nemhepo, uye anobata zvakananga naLeigh-Mallory. Pakupera kwaJune, Montgomery akarayira Tedder, zvino mutevedzeri womukuru mukuru weU.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower paSupreme Allied Headquarters, kuti abvise Coningham pashure pokunge ashora uto nokuda kwokunonoka mu
kutora Caen kuti agadzire nhandare dzendege dzendege. Tedder, zvisinei, akapa zano Eisenhower kuti kubviswa kwakadaro kwaizova "njodzi" uye kutsoropodza kwacho kwakanga kwakarurama. Muna August 1944 Montgomery akanyorera Alan Brooke kuti "Coningham anorwisana neuto zvechisimba uye anozvidzwa nemasoja ose; vatungamiri vangu vehondo havamuvimbi uye havadi kumuvona". Zvisinei Montgomery ndiye akagamuchira tsiuro kubva kuna Eisenhower, nepo dzimbahwe raLeigh-Mallory rakaparadzwa muna Gumiguru sechinhu chisina basa chekutungamira.