Kammala jumla mai zuwa: 326th ya tashi daga Camp Mackall, North Carolina zuwa Camp Shanks, New York, ya shiga cikin teku a cikin jirgin USS General George O. Squire. Tare da sauran rukunin, rundunar, kamar yadda ta yi a yakin duniya na farko, ta sauka a Le Havre, Faransa a watan Fabrairun 1945 kuma ta ci gaba zuwa wani yanki. A ranar 1 ga Maris, 1945 an sake tsara 326th, yana samun bataliya ta uku daga kashe aikin 88th GIR. An zaɓi Rukunin Jirgin Sama na 13 da farko don shiga cikin Operation Varsity, ɓangaren iska na Operation Plunder, sunan lamba don ƙetare Allied na Kogin Rhine, tare da tsoffin rundunonin jiragen sama guda biyu, na 6 na Burtaniya da na 17 na Amurka. Duk da haka, babu isasshen jirgin sama na sufuri don ɗaukar dukkanin ƙungiyoyi uku kuma saboda haka an sauke aikin 13th Airborne a cikin aikin. A cikin 'yan makonni masu zuwa, an yi tunanin wasu ayyukan da aka yi a cikin iska, kawai don a yi watsi da su da sauri, don haka ba a ga wani aikin yaƙi ba, saboda, kamar yadda aka soke sashen daga Operation Varsity, ga karancin jiragen sama. Saurin ci gaban Allies a cikin Jamus bayan Maris 1945 ya musanta buƙatar sojojin sama da 13th Airborne Division ba a taɓa amfani da shi ba, maimakon haka an ajiye shi a cikin ajiyar Janar Dwight D. Eisenhower, Babban Kwamandan Allied a kan
Yammacin Gabas, don yiwuwar saukar da iska a Bavaria.