If you're really set on airborne insertion, why not add a few plywood gliders?
On D-Day back in 1944, many of the aircraft were towing at least one, sometimes two gliders behind them. Didn't do much for manouverability or fuel consumption, and anyone inside the gliders were either suicidally brave or rediculously stupid/naive, but it was an effective means for dropping troops untrained with parachutes as well as heavier equipment like AT guns, jeeps and the like.
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