Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whakaarahia te 2/4th Battalion i te 1939 hei 2nd Line Territorial Army battalion duplicate o te 1st Line 4th Battalion, i muri mai ka whakaingoatia te 1/4th Battalion. I mahi te 1/4th me te 2/4th battalions i roto i te 164th Infantry Brigade, he waahanga o te 55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division. I te 1943, i tukuna te 2/4th Battalion ki nga ope rererangi o te ope taua o Ingarangi ka huri hei 13th Parachute Battalion o te Parachute Regiment, he waahanga o te 5th Parachute Brigade, ko ia ano tetahi waahanga o te 6th Airborne Division hou. I whawhai te 13th Parachute Battalion i te Operation Tonga, nga taunga rererangi o Ingarangi i nga haora wawe o te 6 o Pipiri 1944, D-Day. I mahi te peihana hei hoia hiko noa mo te roanga o te Pakanga o Normandy tae noa ki te tangohanga, me te toenga o te wehenga, ki Ingarangi i te Mahuru 1944. I tukuna te 6th Airborne Division ki Belgium i te marama o Tihema 1944 ki te whawhai i roto i te whakaeke Ardennes, te Pakanga o te Bulge. I whai wāhi rātau ki te rerenga rererangi nui rawa atu o te pakanga katoa, neke atu i te 16,000 nga hoia rererangi i whai wāhi atu, e mōhiotia ana ko
Operation Varsity, me te US 17th Airborne Division.