Coulsdon Eagle
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Two things. First, once the objective was taken, they landed the replacements, not parachuted them. So, in Tunisia, if (for sake of argument) 50,000 troops were sent in by air, probably next to none of them parachuted in. So, when I say, 60,000 troops, that assumes maybe 10,000 parachuted in and the rest not parachuting in. Second, if 75 JU-52's were to average 4 training sorties a day with 15 paratroop trainees for 3 weeks, that's over 90,000 practice drops, correct?
I don't see many JU-52s surviving for three weeks. Tunisia the Axis held airfields - proper airfields, Glenn, not grass strips on hillsides you think would suffice - so flying in reinforcements was nowhere near the level of difficulty the LW would have over the IOW.
I don't know what shows you up more - your flatpack flotilla of barges with nailed down artillery, or this dross about the IOW.