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While the great land campaigns of the Second World War in Russia and north-west Europe were mainly fought without the aid of science, medical research providing antibiotics, sulphonamide drugs and insecticides saved many lives and maintained the operational efficiency of units in the field. Thus Tizard could confidently assert after the war that ‘So far as we can see, we need not fear that disease will be a matter of major importance in war.’1
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Notes
O. H. Wansbrough Jones, quoted in ‘Present Science and Future Strategy’, Jnl. RUST, vol. 95, August 1950, pp. 405–23.
Sir Edward Bullard, ‘Effect of the War on the Development of Knowledge in the Physical Sciences’, Procs. Roy. Soc., A342, 1974–75, pp. 222–3.
J. D. Bernal, ‘Lessons of the War for Science’, The Freedom of Necessity, London, 1949. See also Procs. Roy. Soc., A342, op. cit., pp. 555–74.
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Hartcup, G. (2000). Conclusion. In: The Effect of Science on the Second World War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230596177_11
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