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How One Cook's Grandmother Recipe Saved 3,600 Soldiers — 18 Days Before D-Day

May 9th, 1944. 18 days until D-Day. 3,891 paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division are dying from bacterial food poisoning. Army doctors have given up. Antibiotics don't work. The Normandy invasion is at risk. Then Technical Sergeant Thomas Novak remembers his Polish grandmother's recipe from the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic. Fermented cabbage. Beneficial bacteria. A folk remedy the military calls insane. Against direct orders, Novak converts a storage building into a fermentation facility. He makes 16 tons of sauerkraut. He defies a Major who threatens to shoot him. He bets his life on bacteria his grandmother taught him about as a child. 72 hours later, dying men start sitting up. Asking for food. Walking. Two weeks later, 3,604 soldiers jump into Normandy. They secure Utah Beach causeways. They make D-Day possible. This is the true story of how one cook with his grandmother's recipe saved the invasion of Europe. Using nothing but cabbage, salt, and the courage to break every regulation. Sometimes the best weapon isn't technology. Sometimes it's a grandmother who survived the Spanish Flu and taught her grandson that good bacteria fights bad bacteria. #DDay #WW2 #82ndAirborne #NormandyInvasion #UntoldHistory #MilitaryHistory #Sauerkraut #TrueStory #WorldWar2 #Paratroopers