A whole lot of people died needlessly of infections that wartime penicillin could have/ should have cured --- all because the Allies decided to treat it as a military weapon of war --- only to be used to cure lightly wounded Allied combat troops, to get them back under enemy fire as soon as possible.
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Saturday, January 19, 2013
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Henry Dawson's war aims : "You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar..."
The Allies, convinced their troops lacked the Nazi and Japanese killer instinct, spent most of the war trying to prove Dawson wrong by demonstrating that they could be tougher than tough.
But given their overwhelming advantage in men and material over the Axis, it didn't seemed to be working very fast.
But given their overwhelming advantage in men and material over the Axis, it didn't seemed to be working very fast.
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