Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: A kpọlitere 2/4th Battalion na 1939 dị ka 2nd Line Territorial Army battalion duplicate nke 1st Line 4th Battalion, emesịrị weghachite battalion nke 1/4. Ma battalion nke 1/4 na nke 2/4 jere ozi na 164th Infantry Brigade, akụkụ nke 55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division. N'afọ 1943, e zigara ndị agha 2/4th na ndị agha ụgbọ elu nke ndị agha Britain ma gbanwee ka ha bụrụ ndị agha nke 13 nke Parachute Regiment, akụkụ nke 5th Parachute Brigade, nke n'onwe ya bụ akụkụ nke nke ọhụrụ e guzobere 6th Airborne Division. 13th Parachute Battalion hụrụ ọgụ n'oge Operation Tonga, ụgbọ elu ndị Britain na-agbadata n'isi ụtụtụ nke 6 June 1944, D-Day. Ndị agha ahụ jere ozi dị ka ndị agha nkịtị n'oge agha nke Normandy ruo mgbe ewepụrụ ya, ya na ndị ọzọ nọ na ngalaba ahụ, na England na Septemba 1944. E zigara Ngalaba 6 nke Airborne na Belgium na Disemba 1944 ịlụ ọgụ na Ardennes, Agha nke Bulge. Mgbe ahụ, ha tinyere aka n'ụgbọelu kachasị elu nke agha ahụ dum na ihe karịrị ndị agha 16,000 na-esonye, nke a maara dị ka
Operation Varsity, na US 17th Airborne Division.