How come in WWI they didn't just parachute behind enemy lines?

>>2926041

You don't have actual ATRs. Hell, getting planes that could deliver bombs was tough enough in WW1. An Airco DH.10 had a payload of 417 kg. A H.P. O/400 could carry about a ton. That gives you about 2-5 guys per plane, if you want them to carry equipment. These were late war planes too, some of the best available. They were also built in nowhere near the capacity that you'd need for an operation. The attack on Crete used 500 Ju-52s; and you didn't have either of the above even built in that number.

Secondly, paratroopers are pretty useless against other combat arms without serious support. You can't reliably communicate with them with WW1 technology, and they'd get chewed up by enemy reserves, which at least on the western Front, are usually floating around, certainly anywhere your planes can reach.

>>2926041
Same reason they didn't drop hydrogen bombs.

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>>2926041
Intel agents and saboteurs were dropped all the time, the guys who killed Heydrich for example.
Pic related was one the planes of choice

>>2926073
cool looking aircraft, what you would expect of an espionage related plane

>>2926041
Why won't mods get rid of these threads started by clueless OPs asking autistic questions

>>2926041
No planes big enough and the lines were static trenches with no way to cross.

>>2926073

>killed Heydrich
>Lysander
>in WW1

William Barker earned his VC by chuting behind enemy lines.

>>2926108
I dun goofed I´m so sorry and ashamed

>>2926094
this

>>2926058
fpbp

>>2926041
What would be the point? Back then you could have at most dropped a handful of personnel behind enemy lines, and there's not much they would have been able to accomplish. At best they could have killed some important figures, but the German war machine did not depend on any one individual or small set of individuals.