Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te Poutu-te-rangi 1944 i whakarerea e Cunningham te mana o te 85 Squadron. I tohua ia hei rangatira roopu hei rangatira mo nga Mahi Po i te No. 11 Group RAF. I te 26 o ona tau, ko ia tētahi o ngā taitamariki rawa ki te pupuri i taua tūranga. I tono a Air Marshal Roderick Hill ki a ia kia haere ki de Havilland i te taha o Adolph Malan. He whakamātautau rātau i te de Havilland Vampire. I kii a Cunningham ko te miihini ka pai te whawhai i te po. Ahakoa kāore ia i te mōhio ki te mahi a te de Havilland Goblin turbojet, i tūtohu ia mēnā ka whakawhānuihia te kōpaki ki te tuku i tētahi kaiarataki, ā, ka whakanuia ngā ipu wahie, ka taea e te momo te hanga i tētahi kaiwhiwhi whakamataku. I a raua e whakamātau ana, ka rere a Cunningham rāua ko Rawnsley i runga i a Normandy mai i RAF Uxbridge. I rere rātau i runga i te rāngai o Ingarangi i te 9 o Pipiri 1944 i te wā i te
I tīmata te pakanga mō Caen. I whakahaeretia rātau ki runga i ngā waka rererangi o te hoariri engari kāore i taea te pupuri i a rātau whakapā.