Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bataliya ta shiga cikin ayyukan a Tunisia a ƙarshen 1942 zuwa Mayu 1943, yana fama da asarar rayuka. Bataliya da brigade sun shiga cikin Operation Fustian, lokacin da Allies suka mamaye Sicily
kuma, sake, ya sha wahala babban hasara kuma an janye shi zuwa Ingila a ƙarshen 1943 don horarwa da shirya don mamayewar Allied na Faransa. Ba a yi amfani da bataliya ba a cikin mamayewar farko a ranar 6 ga Yuni, 1944, D-Day, amma an riƙe shi a cikin Burtaniya a cikin ajiya idan ɗayan rairayin bakin teku biyar na mamayewa ya sami matsaloli masu tsanani kuma yana buƙatar tallafi. Shirin bai zama dole ba. A lokacin yakin da aka yi a Normandy an tsara shirye-shirye da yawa don sauke 1st Airborne, babu wanda ya zo. A ƙarshe, a watan Satumbar 1944, bataliya ta sauka a Arnhem Netherlands tare da sauran Rukunin Jirgin Sama na 1, a matsayin wani ɓangare na Operation Market Garden, inda suka sha wahala sosai kuma ba su sake ganin yaƙi ba har zuwa ƙarshen yaƙin.