The Grocery Store Discovery That Killed More Nazis Than Any Bomb
Автор: BattleLore-Podcast
Загружено: 2025-11-17
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une 6th, 1944. 7:42 AM. Omaha Beach, Normandy.
Private Robert Sales lay in the blood-soaked sand with a German machine gun bullet lodged in his abdomen. The 19-year-old from Iowa had made it perhaps 30 yards from his landing craft before the MG-42 found him. Around him, hundreds of other young Americans were dying in what would become the bloodiest beach of D-Day.
A Navy corpsman reached Sales within minutes, dragging him behind a destroyed Sherman tank. The medic injected him with morphine, applied pressure bandages, and did something that would have been impossible just two years earlier. He injected Sales with a clear yellowish fluid from a small vial marked with a red cross. The label read simply: "Penicillin."
That injection, replicated thousands of times across the Normandy beaches that day, would save more Allied lives than any tactical decision made by Eisenhower or Montgomery. Private Sales would survive his wounds, return home to Iowa, and live until 1998, dying peacefully at age 73. He owed those extra 54 years not to military strategy or superior firepower, but to a woman named Mary Hunt who had found a moldy cantaloupe in a Peoria, Illinois grocery store in 1943.
This is the story of how a fungus changed the outcome of World War II.
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