Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te mahi tuatahi a Norton i waho o West Point ko te 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division hei rangatira kamupene. I muri mai ka hoki ia ki te Kura Whakatere i te ngahuru o te tau 1942 ki te haere ki te Kaihauturu o te Battalion me nga Kaitohutohu o te Kaitohutohu me te Parachute Course. Whai muri i tana otinga o te akoranga, i tukuna ia ki te 82nd Airborne Division i Awherika ki te Raki. Kaore i roa ka whakatairangahia ia ki te rangatira whakahaere o te 2d Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. E rua marama i muri mai, ka whakatairanga ano ia, ki te S-3 (kaimahi whakahaere) o te Regiment. I mahia e ia tana tuatahi o nga peke whawhai e wha hei rangatira whakahaere, i uru atu ki te
Te whakaekenga o Hiti. Whai muri i tana hokinga ki Awherika ki te Raki, ka eke atu ia ki Salerno, Itari, ka aukati i nga ope Tiamana e ngana ana ki te whakaeke i nga ope amphibious US. Ko tana peke tuatoru i te tautoko i te whakaekenga o Normandy i te ra D, 6 Pipiri 1944 i te wa i arahina ai e ia ana tangata i te pouri i runga i a St. Mere-Eglise, France. I te Hōngongoi o taua tau, i whakawhiwhia ia ki te whakahau o te 3rd Battalion; i whakatairangahia ia i te marama i muri mai ki te G3 o te 82d Airborne Division. I eke a Norton i tana peke whawhai tuawha i te marama o Hepetema, i te Netherlands ki te whakahaere i nga piriti mai i te rohe o Dutch ki Arnhem hei waahanga o te Operation Market Garden.