They certainly did! Fun fact: the first 1941 British combat drop of the newly formed Parachute Regiment was the Bruneval raid on the French coast whose purpose

They certainly did! Fun fact: the first 1941 British combat drop of the newly formed Parachute Regiment was the Bruneval raid on the French coast whose purpose was to capture a German Wurtzberg radar. Many years ago I spent some time working at an Army base in Finland. They had a small museum on site which had some German radar kit. It looked surprisingly modern (e.g. satellite dish type aerials) and was virtually unique because elsewhere in Europe the same hardware had all been destroyed