I'm confused. Where did the thing about air dropping guns and howitzers come from beyond my joke earlier in the thread?
I understand the part about separating crews from their artillery type pieces (please drop gun before crew jumps
), but did anyone actually have planes designed to drop guns and howitzers during WWII and in significant enough quantities to be useful for something other than special ops? These days, they are typically rolled out of the back of the plane. Maybe someone had planes like that back then, but I don't know of any. Personally, I have always used gliders for delivering guns and small vehicles. I thought it was standard practice back then and really, the main reason they used gliders.