Moreover, their efforts were not in vain. On the contrary, they had an immediate effect - Rommel received the amount of materials that could only be transported in a month and 15 days before that month, which was equivalent to raising Rommel''s supply speed by one third at a time. For this matter, Rommel personally wrote to the airborne commander Stuart, praising his men as the bravest soldiers, which is also the highest praise from an armored commander to the paratroopers.