Kamilisha sentensi ifuatayo: Kikosi cha 3 cha Parachute kilianzishwa mnamo Novemba 1942 na kupewa mgawanyo wa 1 wa Airborne. Kikosi hicho, chini ya Brigadier Alexander Stanier, ilikuwa na 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion, hapo awali ilikuwa 10th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, 8th (Midlands) Parachute Battalion, iliyobadilishwa kutoka 13th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, na 9th (Eastern and Home Counties) Parachute Battalion, hapo awali ilikuwa 10th Battalion, Essex Regiment. Muda mfupi baadaye, 1 Parachute Brigade kushoto mgawanyiko, kushiriki katika operesheni Torch, Allied
landings katika Afrika Kaskazini, na kuishia kushiriki katika shughuli nyingi katika Afrika Kaskazini, ingawa kupigana katika jukumu ya kijeshi.