Off thread; thought the paras jumped from the Albermarles whilst the more powerfull Stirlings pulled the gliders.
Off thread;
In fact there were four RAF aircraft types used on the drop into Normandy on the morning of D-Day (Operation Tonga). Halifax V, Dakota III, Stirling VI, and various marks of Albermarle. Gliders were towed by all types bar the Stirling in various numbers. Paras were dropped from all types bar the Halifax.
The link
here lists the gliders and who towed them, the following list shows the tug aircraft types operated by each squadron.
298 / 644 Sqns Halifax A Mk V
295/ 296 / 297 / 570 Sqns Albermarle
233 / 271 Sqns Dakota III
Richard Todd jumped from a Stirling out of Fairford, which would have been from either 620 or 190 Sqns (and boy would I love to know which Sqn and aircraft it was, even the Stirling Association do not know).
Stirlings may well have been used as tugs on the evening glider train (Op Mallard).