Vitamin C the Canadian Arctic anthropologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson showed that the Inuit avoid scurvy on a diet of largely raw meat. Later studies on traditional food diets of the Yukon First Nations, Dene, Inuit, and Métis of Northern Canada showed that their daily intake of vitamin C averaged between 52 and 62 mg/day, comparable with the Estimated Average Requirement. Vitamin C was discovered in 1912, isolated in 1928 and synthesized in 1933, making it the first vitamin to be synthesized. Shortly thereafter Tadeus Reichstein succeeded in synthesizing the vitamin in bulk by what is now called the Reichstein process. This made possible
Navy of the Independent State of Croatia from defecting with their vessels to the Partisans. Three officers commanded the RMNDH: Navy of the Independent State of Croatia The Navy of the Independent State of Croatia (, RMNDH), was established as the navy of the Independent State of Croatia (, NDH) on 10 April 1941, the date the Axis puppet state was created by the fascist "Ustaše" party from parts of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, which had been invaded by the Axis powers four days earlier. It consisted of two commands, the Coast and Maritime Traffic Command, and the River and River Traffic Command, and had its headquarters