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WATCH: D-Day: The Untold Stories on HISTORY Vault 3. After the war, civilians gained access to this life-saving drug, too. The United States considered the drug so critical to the war effort that, to prepare for the D-Day landings, the country produced 2.3 million doses of penicillin for the Allied troops.

Military surgeons were amazed by how the drug reduced pain, increased the chance of survival and made it easier for nurses and doctors to care for soldiers on the battlefield. War Department, which touted the effort as “a race against death” in one poster. Manufacturing penicillin for soldiers was a major priority for the U.S. The Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, but it wasn’t until World War II that the United States began to mass-produce it as a medical treatment.

Harris was wounded during an attack on a position in Normandy.īefore the widespread use of antibiotics like penicillin in the United States, even small cuts and scrapes could lead to deadly infections. Harris waits for a medic to inject penicillin in preparation for an operation on a hospital train on its way to a station in England.

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