Involved in the operations of the Liberation of France and The Netherlands, the unit was temporarily dissolved at the end of the conflict and was reorganized between 1979 and 1998.

At the end of 1942, while the 1st Air Infantry Battalion was being formed in England at the corps of the Free French Air Forces, Captain Jean-Marie Bouvier and Captain Fournier assembled volunteers of the Free French Forces in Cairo, Egypt.

[1] Officially constituted on 6 June 1943,[2] the 3rd Air Infantry Battalion joined Camp de Camberly in England on 7 November.

Integrated into the British Forces, the two battalions were incorporated in the Special Air Service Brigade of Brigadier Mac Leod in December 1943.

The parachute wings insignia received by the newly reformed 3rd SAS Regiment was formulated by Captain Georges Bergé, made out of fabric and placed on the chest.

The 3rd Parachute Chasseur Regiment was entrusted with action covering the southern flank of the U.S. 3rd Army which had just disembarked in Normandy making way west across the country.

[9] An initial detachment, at the orders of Captain Simon and constituted from a reinforced squadron, a Demi-Squadron from the 3rd squadron intervened in le Poitou and Limousin from mid-July, made way on Châteauroux and Issoudun at the beginning of September, before regrouping at the beginning of October south of Poche de Saint-Nazaire.

The 2nd squadron of Captain Pierre Sicaud was first parachuted on Finistère in the night of 4 August (near of Plougastel-Daoulas, Landerneau et Morlaix).

The 2nd rejoined the 1st squadron and the command Demi-Squadron which remained deployed until 12 August around the cities of Lyon, Chalon-sur-Saône, Autun, and Saint-Étienne.

[11] They preceded the 2nd Canadian Corps while sowing confusion, preventing the opposition from establishing defensive lines and also preserving the status of bridges.

On 6 August, the three Parachute Chasseurs regiments and the 4e RIA SAS, which had just been permanently reattached to the French Army, were incorporated into the newly created 24th Airborne Division.

In 1996, the regiment was briefly designated as "École des troupes aéroportées, the 3e Régiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes" (ETAP/3e RCP).

"Who dares wins" is the general motto of the British SAS, translated in French to "Qui ose gagne".