Rambai muchinyora ndima ino - Semutungamiri mukuru wehondo yemhepo, Coningham ndiye aive sarudzo yakajeka 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 yekumhara kweNormandy. 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 wemukuru mukuru weU.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower kuSupreme Allied Headquarters, kuti abvise Coningham mushure mekunge atsoropodza mauto nekunonoka kutora Caen
kuitira kuti pave nenhandare dzendege dzendege dzemauto. 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.