Hello Karen
There are 90 search returns for 6 Airborne files and records at just The National Archives, Kew.
Some names will appear in their Unit records, War Diaries and possibly files, etc.
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_ep=6%20Airborne&_dss=range&_sd=1939&_ed=1945&_ro=any&_hb=tna&_st=advSome of these authors and very serious researchers may have spent 10 years or more, researching at The National Archives and various Archives and Museums around the country, like the IWM; Churchill College Cambridge; Liddell Hart Archives; etc and writing to Veterans and their Associations, to get the facts and first hand accounts.
Is there any footnote number in the text, referring to a file reference, or source?
If you do go to an Archives, make sure you have all the required formal proofs of your identity and your current address.
Sometimes an Author gives his town or village of residence in the front or back and you can trace them or contact his publisher who may pass on a letter from you, if you enclose a stamped blank envelope.
Hope you find the record/s, it is very interesting to trace your relative in records, including tracing documents in private hands, sometimes now in the possession of Sons and Daughters of Veterans.
Mark
