Re-formed and reorganized at Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhe in 1943, it was transferred to the West and directed all German forces in the Battle of Sicily under Hans Hube where it commanded the 1st Fallschirmjager Division, 15th Panzer Grenadier Division, Hermann Goering Panzer Division and elements of the 29th Panzer Grenadier Division.[3] It was briefly commanded by Hermann Balck in September and October 1943, before he was seriously injured in a plane crash.[4]