Winston Churchill's race to secure penicillin before D-Day found in notes

Before D-Day, Churchill Pushed for More Penicillin

Among Winston Churchill's many concerns as June 6, 1944, approached was whether there'd be enough penicillin to treat the troops wounded during the Allies' Normandy invasion, rediscovered official documents show. Months after D-Day, Britain's prime minister pronounced the efforts to obtain a supply of the antibiotic "very disappointing," the papers...

Churchill frustrated he had to buy penicillin from US ahead of D-Day

Winston Churchill's D-Day 'wonder drug' disappointment laid bare in new notes

Winston Churchill's irritation at the lack of a "wonder drug" to treat casualties of the D-Day landings have been laid bare in new documents.

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

Sir Winston Churchill became increasingly frustrated Britain had not been able to produce enough penicillin in preparation for the Normandy landings.

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

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.Attempts to produce substantial quantities of medicine from the bacteria-killing mould had not been achieved by the start of the Second World War.Then prime ministe…