Pfizer was first to have PENICILLIN on the beaches of Normandy & now about to be the first to have COVID VACCINE in the arms of Londonderry

The grim-faced man on the left, Pfizer President John L Smith, was an ultra cautious man, moving fast only once in his life : in late summer 1943.

 That was enough, as his nine month long non-stop effort helped win the day on D-Day as only his firm had combat-ready penicillin in time for the the medics’ supplies packs on the Normandy beaches.

Pfizer was supplying, for a time, 80% of the wartime world’s penicillin....

 The employees and share-holders of MERCK , the arch-rival of PFIZER on D-Day and again during Covid-2020, can only rage as their top executives again bet on the wrong horse....