! The Dakotas were US Air Force planes and there was much swearing towards the American Dakota pilots!
An old ex para with whom I drink with quite a lot was part of the Market Garden show There is a German film taken during the para assault that shows one Dakota releasing it occupants some time after the rest. Our hero was in that stick and after two years of training, because things like guns, etc, were in canisters around him, he had his hands up as soon as he released his harness.
God Bless the USAAF.