 While the 6th Airborne Division were still fighting in Normandy , numerous plans to parachute the 1st Airborne Division into France were formulated , all to no avail . In June and July 1944 , the plans included Operation Reinforcement , which was a landing to the west of St Sauveur @-@ le @-@ Vicomte to support the US 82nd Airborne Division , and Operation Wild Oats to seize Carpiquet airfield in support of the First Canadian Army . There was also Operation Beneficiary , intended to support the American XX Corps in capturing St Malo , and Operation Lucky Strike which had the objective of seizing bridges across the River Seine at Rouen . In Operation Sword Hilt , the division was to isolate the port of Brest and destroy the Morlaix viaduct . Operation Hands Up was intended to support the US Third Army by seizing the Vannes airfield . 
