Re-formed and reorganized at Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia in 1943, it was transferred to the West and directed all German forces in the Battle of Sicily under Hube where it commanded the 1st Parachute Division, 15th Panzergrenadier Division, 1st Paratroop Panzer Division "Hermann Göring" and elements of the 29th Panzergrenadier Division. It was briefly commanded by Hermann Balck in September and October 1943, before he was seriously injured in a plane crash.