Originally Posted by
Heathrow Harry
The main reason seems to have been to get a lot of men on the ground in short order.
That is indeed the whole point of a mass troop drop. So your own statement seems to debunk your earlier claim. As for the failures of mass troop drops in WW2, that's rather the point of "lessons learned." We learned that dropping large numbers of troops into a defended urban/suburban area results in heavy losses. So we don't drop them into such areas any more. But we most certainly do drop them. Paratroops, and mass drops of those troops, remain very much relevant in today's world.