You might not be aware that the tomatoes you most likely buy at the store today are not the same that you might have eaten just, say, around seventy years ago. In fact, your tomatoes likely taste worse. Because tomatoes were forever changed by an invention that most people have likely never seen, nor even thought about.
By September of 1944, the Western Allies had broken out of the Normandy beachehead, and suddenly and quickly moved across northern France . By September 7th, the 90th division was stretched across the northern sector on Patton’s Third Army’s left, advancing slowly northeast. As they did so the German defenders made a risky attack in an effort to spoil the allied advance, cutting through Allied lines in a surprise action at the small town of Mairy-Mannville.