On 15 August, SHAEF made available an allocation of air transport capable of delivering up to per day to the Le Mans area from airbases in the UK. Deliveries to a newly opened air field there began on 19 August. Due to bad weather and problems with the airfield, an average of per day was delivered over the following week. By 22 August, there were 383 fully-loaded C-47 transport aircraft in the UK awaiting dispatch. The problem was a lack of suitable landing fields. Rehabilitating captured German airfields or building new ones required the movement of engineer stores using scarce motor transport. 12th Army Group allocated per day to such stores during the pursuit, but the Ninth Air Force gave priority to forward fighter airfields. The air resupply system was also characterized by poor communications, resulting in duplicated requests, and motor transport being sent to the wrong airfields in the UK and France. The early capture of Paris on 25 August forced Eisenhower to allocate per day to civil relief supplies, mainly food, medical supplies and soap. Given the limited carrying capacity of transport aircraft—each C-47 could only carry about per sortie—air resupply could never be more than a supplement, although it was useful for urgently required items.