. . "In addition to the 4,000 paratroopers, combat historian Colonel Roy Appleman reports that ???twelve 105-mm howitzers, thirty-nine jeeps, thirty-eight 1/4-ton trailers, four 90-mm antiaircraft guns, four 3/4-ton trucks, and 584 tons of ammunition, gasoline, water, rations, and other supplies??? were also dropped." . . .