Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Mukati mehurumende yeU.S. Army, vamwe vakuru vakuru vakabvunza kushanda kwemauto anobhururuka semubatanidzwa wehondo. VaGermany vakanga vashandisa zvinobudirira mauto anoburuka mumhepo mukati mokupinda muNetherlands muna May 1940 uye muCrete muna May 1941. Nguva yehondo yakanga ichiratidza kuva yakaoma nokuda kwamauto okudenga eAmerica. Muna November 1942, sechikamu cheOperation Torch muNorth Africa mushandirapamwe, maparatroopers eU.S. avo vakarasikirwa nenzvimbo yavo yekudonha (DZ) vakafamba kuti vatore nhandare yendege yaive mumaoko emauto ane hushamwari. Mukati mokupinda kweAllied muSicily muna July 1943
, mauto eU.S. eparatroopers akamharazve kure nenharidzano dzawo dzakarongwa. Asi ngwavaira chaiyoiyo yakauya apo moto weshamwari wakawisira pasi ndege 23 ndokukuvadza dzimwe 37; 318 varwi vanobhururuka vari pasi nevatyairi vanobhururuka vakaurawa kana kuti vakakuvadzwa. Kubudirira kwakashata kwemauto eAmerica airborne muSicily kwakakurudzira Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower kukurudzira General George C. Marshall, Mukuru weUnited States Army, kuti zvikamu zvepamusoro-soro zvepamusoro-soro zvakanga zvakaoma zvikuru kudzora muhondo.