Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An sanya brigade zuwa 1st Airborne Division, kafin mamayewar Allied na Sicily, amma ba ta taka rawa a mamayewar ba. Maimakon haka brigade ya fara aiki a watan Satumbar 1943, a lokacin Operation Slapstick, wani jirgin ruwa mai saukar ungulu a tashar jiragen ruwa na Taranto, a matsayin wani ɓangare na farkon matakan mamayewar Allied na Italiya. Ba tare da tsayayya ba, brigade ya kama tashar jiragen ruwa na Brindisi da Bari kafin a janye shi. A ƙarshen shekara, Brigade na 4 na Parachute ya kasance a Ingila, yana shirya don mamayewar Allied na Arewa maso Yammacin Turai. Rundunar ba ta ga aikin a Faransa ba, a maimakon haka an sanya shi a cikin gaggawa don gaggawa a lokacin saukowa na Normandy. Tsakanin Yuni da Agusta 1944 saurin ci gaban Allied da ya biyo baya
ya kawar da bukatar tura sojojin sama.