SAS Jeeps were being dropped into France for operations in support of the DDAY landings in June 1944, they were stripped down and loaded onto pallets that fitted ( Under slung) into the bomb bays of Halifax bombers. Later armoured jeeps with bullet proof glass were used but these were not parachuted in but arrived by ship.
6 Pounder anti tank guns were also dropped on their own special pallets, there is an airborne jeep on display in the Airborne Assualt museum section at Duxford.
If i remember rightly, i read some reports at the PRO that suggested that a couple of jeeps are still in a French lake that missed the Drop Zone.
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