Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei irava - I te mea ko ia te kaiarahi matua o te pakanga rererangi, ko Coningham te mea tika ki te whakahau i te 2nd Tactical Air Force i te pakanga o te raki-uru o Uropi i raro i te Air Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, e whakahau ana i nga Allied Expeditionary Air Forces, a i te Hanuere 1944 i whakahokia mai ia ki Ingarangi i reira i awhina ai ia ki te whakamahere i te tautoko rererangi mo nga taunga o Normandy. Ko tana hononga ki a Montgomery i tino pakaru i muri i te taenga mai o nga whenua. I raru te tokorua i te wa i ngana ai a Montgomery ki te karo i a Coningham, ko ia te waahi kua tohua mo nga tono tautoko rererangi, me te mahi tika ki a Leigh-Mallory. I te mutunga o Hune, i whakapae a Montgomery ki a Tedder, inaianei ko ia te kaihauturu o te rangatira o te US a General Dwight D. Eisenhower i te Supreme Allied Headquarters, mo te nekehanga o Coningham i muri i tana whakapae i te ope taua mo te roa o te hopu i Caen
kia wātea ai ngā rererangi rererangi mō ngā waka rererangi. Heoi, i tohutohu a Tedder ki a Eisenhower ko taua nekehanga ka waiho hei "mate" me te tika o te whakahe. I te marama o Akuhata 1944 i tuhi a Montgomery ki a Alan Brooke e "Kei te kaha te riri a Coningham ki te ope taua, ka whakahawea e nga hoia katoa; kaore aku rangatira ope taua e whakawhirinaki ki a ia, kaore hoki e hiahia ki te kite i a ia". Heoi ko Montgomery te mea i whiua e Eisenhower, i te wa i whakakorehia ai te tari matua o Leigh-Mallory i te Oketopa hei rangatira rangatira kore.