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Originally Posted by Abbott Shaull
That is another thing that many people fail to take into account too. For the most part after the Airborne Divisions had been withdrawn back to England were time and again alerted to only have someone to overrun their drop zone.
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This is one big reason that some generals advocated smaller airborne forces, assigned further down the chain of command. IIRC, Patton suggested a regiment per field army, for short-range operations like bridge-grabbing. The planning was assumed to be less time-consuming.
To drag this back towards T2k, Soviet Fronts and Tank Armies each have a desant (air-assault) brigade assigned, for just this kind of thing.