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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Robert White

D-Day landings boosted by import of ‘wonder drug’ to Britain, archives reveal

The D-Day landings were boosted by the import from America of a “wonder drug”, unearthed documents reveal.

Production of the antibiotic penicillin had struggled to take hold at a large scale in Britain, despite being discovered in 1928 in London by Sir Alexander Fleming.

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