Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An tayar da 2/4th Battalion a 1939 a matsayin 2nd Line Territorial Army battalion duplicate na 1st Line 4th Battalion, daga baya aka sake sanya shi a matsayin 1/4th Battalion. Dukkanin bataliya na 1/4 da na 2/4 sun yi aiki a cikin Brigade na 164 na Infantry, wani ɓangare na 55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division. A cikin 1943, an canza Bataliya ta 2/4 zuwa sojojin sojin sama na Burtaniya kuma an canza shi zuwa Bataliya ta 13 na Parachute na Parachute Regiment, wani ɓangare na Brigade na 5 na Parachute, wanda shi kansa ya kasance wani ɓangare na sabon rukunin 6th Airborne. Rukunin Parachute na 13 ya ga yaƙi yayin Operation Tonga, saukar jiragen sama na Burtaniya a farkon sa'o'i na 6 ga Yuni, 1944, D-Day. Rundunar ta yi aiki a matsayin 'yan bindiga na yau da kullum don tsawon lokacin yakin Normandy har sai an janye shi, tare da sauran sashen, zuwa Ingila a watan Satumba na 1944. An tura Rukunin Jirgin Sama na 6 zuwa Belgium a watan Disamba na 1944 don yin yaƙi a cikin Ardennes, yakin Bulge. Daga nan sai suka shiga cikin mafi girma a cikin jirgin sama na dukan yakin da sama da 16,000 sojojin da ke cikin jirgin sama suka shiga, wanda aka sani da Operation Varsity
, tare da rundunar sojin sama ta 17 ta Amurka.