Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whakatairangahia ia ki te rangatira o te roopu mo te wa poto i te 27 o Poutu-te-rangi 1942. I te Paenga-whāwhā o te tau 1943 ka noho a Atcherley hei Kaiwhakahaere Air o te Rōpū Nama 211 i Tripoli i Libya. I te wā o te whakaekenga o Hiti (
Operation Husky) i te 10 o Hōngongoi 1943, No. 211 Group ko te kaha toa matua o Air Vice Marshal Harry Broadhurst's Desert Air Force, he whakahau-a-roto o Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham's Northwest African Tactical Air Force. I muri mai i taua tau ka whakawhiti ia ki te Tumuaki RAF Fighter Command a i te 1944 ka neke ia ki te Tumuaki Allied Expeditionary Air Force hei whakarite mo te Operation Overlord. I noho ia i nga waahanga whakamutunga o te Pakanga hei Kaihauturu o te Kura Kaihauturu Kaihauturu, katahi ka noho hei Kaihauturu o te Central Fighter Establishment.