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Story #48 | War Engineering Chronicles | SERIES 4

Autumn 1944. Pacific Theater. Infected water was killing more soldiers than combat.

The Pacific campaign presented challenges unlike anything in Europe. Tropical jungles harbored parasites, bacteria, and diseases that could incapacitate or kill within days. The water that soldiers needed to survive was often the very thing killing them.

Dysentery. Typhoid. Cholera. Parasitic infections. The list of waterborne threats was endless.

The military had a solution: halazone tablets. Chemical purification that killed pathogens effectively. The tablets worked — in laboratory conditions. In the field, they had a fatal flaw.

They tasted TERRIBLE.

Soldiers refused to use them. The chemical taste was so unpleasant that men chose to drink raw water from streams and puddles rather than endure treated water. They knew the risks. They drank anyway. And they died.

The military needed purification that soldiers would actually USE.

Then someone found Martha Williams.

A 58-year-old master brewer who had spent 33 years making beer in Milwaukee. A woman who understood something profound about water safety that military chemists had missed.

"Beer exists BECAUSE water was deadly," Martha explained. "For five thousand years, brewing was water purification. People didn't drink beer to get drunk — they drank it because it was the only safe water available."

Her solution came from millennia of brewing tradition: yeast-based purification that killed pathogens through fermentation byproducts while actually IMPROVING the taste. Water that was safe AND drinkable.

Six weeks. Pacific water protocols transformed.

2,200 soldiers survived because one brewer knew that clean water must taste worth drinking.

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