Kammala jumla mai zuwa: 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 zuwa 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 tare da fiye da 16,000 sojojin da ke cikin jirgin sama, da aka sani da
Operation Varsity, tare da rundunar sojin sama ta 17 ta Amurka.