The frenetic pace with which preparations for Operation Leghorn were being carried out in Army and Air HQs gave the impression that everything that could be done to equip Dalvi’s brigade for the impending task was being done. The fact that almost half of the drops were ending in disaster because of faulty parachutes was not known at the time. Even when the parachutes did successfully deploy, loads would waft over the ridge at Lumpu and end up in the steep valleys below. The absence of worthwhile maps also meant that no one at Army HQ, including the DMO, Palit, had any idea of the ground
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