Originally posted by Lance:
:::chuckles::: The only thing more useless than a post demanding folks play how, where and when YOU want is a post that only seeks to make people feel guilty about playing how, when or where THEY want.
Not after 2 years yelling at the 4 winds, in the open, to everyone, broadcasting it...that they would ONLY fly in the HA. That is my point. They whined and begged for a HA to come, saying repeatedly that they wont fly anything else. And now, they fly the MA
If it depended on me I would like to see them staying in the MA forever. I dont care about where they fly, Gordo. I CARE that they LIED when they asked for an HA.
But lets leave it at that.
Originally posted by whels:
mm no mass airborn op other then crete? mmm
how about Normandy? + other paratroop ops after that. there was alot more then u think Ram.
Normandy, Arnhem and the cross of the Rhine. Of all, only the Rhine had some real success.
Normandy saw 3 airborne divisions deployed. 2 of them (the 82nd and 101st american) far from their targets,and scattered. THey did a nice job on getting the Germans disconcerted, tho, and created lots of confussion at the cost of terrific losses. But that hardly can be considered as a successfull mission.
And those troops were intended to carry on just a support mission for the landings. It was NOT an operation on their own. Had those troops been deployed on their own, they would've been eaten alive.
Arnhem was a disaster. No need to say more.
The cross of the Rhine saw THOUSANDS of paratroops deployed in a very short time. Also was an operation intended to SUPPORT the land troops, not to conquer anything on their own.
Anyway thousands of paratroopers... Nothing like a lonely C-47 with 10 paratroops, true?. Set the needed troops for field conquest for 150 troops, and I will agree on the capture field issue
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That mission had lots of losses, and a relatively low influence in the whole campaign. Nothing (by far) like what Crete was.
And while Crete itself was the only major paratroop operation of the war intended to capture anything by the exclusive means of airdrop, it had a loss rate of the 56%. IT understabily was a serious shock for the germans themselfs. Go figure.
[ 08-22-2001: Message edited by: R4M ]