 His plan for "Engagement of Long Range Rockets with AA Gunfire" (gunfire into a radar-predicted airspace to intercept the V-2 rocket) was ready on 21 March 1945 but the plan was not used due to the danger of shells falling on Greater London.Pile was created a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) in the 1945 New Year Honours.After the War he became Director General of Housing with the Ministry of Works.