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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Robert White

Churchill documents reveal D-Day landings boosted by import of ‘wonder drug’ from America

Troops from the 48th Royal Marines at Saint-Aubin-sur-mer on Juno Beach, Normandy, France, during the D-Day landings, 6th June 1944. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) - (Getty)

Newly unearthed documents have revealed that the D-Day landings received a boost from the import of a "wonder drug" from America.

Despite its discovery in London in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming, large-scale production of the antibiotic penicillin had struggled to take hold in Britain.

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