Daylight paratroop drop D-Day

So, the escorting P-47s etc., that are there to suppress the flak do their job and strafe and bomb the living snot out of the positions that open up. One less thing thing to deal with by the ground troops later.....

 

A lot of Jugs and other assorted aircraft were slapped out of the sky by flak at low level. And will they see the emplacements before said slapping.

 

Better to lose some fighter bombers than transports. If the flak is busy shooting at their attackers they aren't shooting at transports.

 

Isn't that the same kind of thinking that got the Germans to lose Stalingrad?

 

No. At Stalingrad the problem was a combination of weather and extremely poor planning of the air lift. The runways / airfields were totally inadequite. There were no navigation aids in place for the transports. The loading and unloading arrangements were nothing short of incompetent.
When you combine this with the weather you get a recipe for disaster. The Germans lost more aircraft in crashes than to enemy action. Some days they could barely get planes in the air due to weather.
Of course, compounding this was that 6th Army started off in a poor supply position that didn't help things. Then there was the general civil engineering ineptitude of the German military that made things even worse.

No comparison there with a one time paradrop in reasonably good weather with at least some navigation aids both in the air and on the ground available.