I have the following response from Joe Cerneglia, our primary researcher who has been working with the Campana bottle:
"I assure you we did not miss Wikipedia's statement that "Campana Balm was carried by every U.S. serviceman during the war.". This statement was added to the Wiki article by someone following the breaking news on the identification of the bottle as consistent with Italian Balm. Someone else at this time also stated in the Wiki article that Amelia Earhart carried Campana Italian Balm on her last flight. Tom and I consulted on this and decided to remove this statement. We gave our reasons in the editorial history of the article:
14:30, 20 June 2012 198.228.201.146 (talk) . . (5,173 bytes) (-426) . . (→Notable users: Deleted. All we can conclude is that SOMEONE had Campana Italian Balm with them at the Seven Site; we have no evidence that AE had it, there or anyplace else. Tom King, Archaeologist, TIGHAR
We believe remarks to the effect every soldier had a bottle of Italian Balm was an exaggerated, and inaccurate counter-response to the idea expressed that Campana Italian Balm was brought by Earhart on the World Flight. A check of the history of Campana Company will confirm why the statement that every soldier carried Campana Balm is probably grossly inaccurate.
First, Campana Corporation manufactured burn ointment for soldiers. It was supplied in tubes and carried the names M-4 and M-5. We have no basis to know how widely it was distributed, and in any case most such ointments contained a boric acid-based emollient, very different from the ingredients in Italian Balm.
Second, the effort to supply the troops actually decreased substantially the number of bottles of Italian Balm (the product had actually been re-named Campana Balm in response to anti-Italian war sentiment) that could be produced. Sales had already begun a decline by the outbreak of World War II.
For more on this topic, see the section titled Impact of World War II in
http://www.bataviahistory.org/historian-vol-26-51/the-batavia-historian-vol-39/volume-39---number-2.aspxThis information may also be found in the last chapter of Batavia: From the Collection of the Batavia Historical Society, available on Amazon."