Of 4,575 men dropped (seventy percent of the planned number, and just 1,525 from 5th Brigade), some 2,300 eventually assembled into 43 ad-hoc groups, with missions abandoned as hopeless, and spent most of their time seeking supplies not yet destroyed by the Germans.
投下的4,575人（計劃中的70%的數量，只有1,525人來自第5旅），約2,300名最終編成43個特設小組，任務因無望而被遺棄，並利用了大部分時間尋找尚未被德軍銷毀的補給品。