Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I muri i te whakangungu nui me nga mahi whakangungu, i eke te 508th i te 19 o Tihema 1943 i New York City, New York ka rere i te 28 o Tihema 1943 ki Belfast, Northern Ireland, ka tae ki reira i te 8 o Hanuere 1944. Whai muri i te whakangungu taapiri i Cromore Estate i Portstewart, i nekehia te reimana ma te kaipuke ki Glasgow i Scotland me te tereina i te 13 o Poutu-te-rangi 1944 ki Wollaton Park i Nottinghamshire, Ingarangi, i reira i uru ai ratou ki te 82nd "All American" Airborne Division, i whakahaua e Major General Matthew Ridgway, i kite i te ratonga rongonui i roto
Ko Hiti me Itari. Ko tetahi roopu tuahine, ko te 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment (i muri mai ka hono atu ki te 17th Airborne Division), he waahanga no te 2nd Airborne Brigade me te 508th, i noho i raro iho i te tekau ma rima maero te tawhiti i tetahi hotera whenua o mua ko Tollerton Hall, Nottinghamshire. I a ia e whakangungu ana i Ingarangi, ko te Brigadier General James M. Gavin, te Kaihauturu Kaihauturu (ADC), i tino miharo ki te reimana, e kii ana ko te 508th "he pai ake i nga waahanga hou kua kitea e au, mena kaore e taea e raatau kaore e taea e nga hoia matomato. "