Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Bayan horo na shekaru da yawa a duk faɗin United Kingdom da watanni tara da aka yi a Arewacin Ireland, rundunar ta sauka a Faransa, tare da sauran rukunin 59th, a ƙarshen Yuni 1944 a matsayin wani ɓangare na Operation Overlord kuma ya zama wani ɓangare na Sojojin Birtaniya na Biyu. Rundunar ta yi yaƙi a cikin matsanancin matsanancin yanayi.
yaƙe-yaƙe don kama Caen, musamman a lokacin Operation Charnwood da Yaƙin Odon na biyu, wanda aka fi sani da Operation Pomegranate. A farkon watan Agusta, yayin tsallaka Kogin Orne wanda Brigade na 176 na Sojojin Sojoji, da taimakon tankokin Churchill na 107 RAC na Brigade 34 Tank Brigade, ya taka muhimmiyar rawa (kuma ya sami yabo daga GOC Major-General Lewis Lyne), Kyaftin David Auldjo Jamieson, ɗan Sir Archibald Jamieson, na 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment an ba shi lambar yabo ta Victoria Cross saboda tsananin ƙarfin hali, jagoranci da kwanciyar hankali a karkashin wuta kuma duk da cewa an ji rauni. Zai zama na farko da kawai VC da aka ba wa brigade da kuma rabuwa a duk lokacin yakin. Ya tsira daga raunin da ya samu kuma ya kasance a cikin Sojojin bayan yakin inda daga baya ya sami mukamin Manjo. A lokacin tsallakawa, brigade ya sha wahala sosai, tare da 7th Royal Norfolks yana fama da 42 da aka kashe, 111 da suka ji rauni da 73 suka rasa, don jimlar asarar 226, 6th North Staffords yana da asarar 76 da kuma 7th South Staffords ya rasa CO, Lieutenant Colonel J.G. Bullock, wanda aka kashe a cikin aikin.