[Milsurplus] DFing The LOs?

[Jim Whartenby]

HueOK, here is some more "fluff"http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/ww2seeinthedark.htmlLots of references about halfway down the article and some more nice images of period posters.
Other sources:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/carrots-eyesight-world-war-ii-propaganda-england
https://www.nytimes.com/1940/12/23/archives/london-urges-carrot-diet-for-blackout-blindness.html?legacy=truehttps://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/nov/01/blackout-britain-wartimehttps://www.ceenta.com/news-blog/carrots-night-vision-and-world-war-ii

I've known about this carrot propaganda for at least 50 years so I thought it was common knowledge.  
I think the Germans were well aware of the British radars.
Evidently not, but German scientist were aware of the principles of the cavity magnetron as early as 1936, see:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4142066But as we all well know, knowing the principle and reducing it to practice is like comparing night to day.  I believe that when the Telefunken engineers got the captured H2S radar working again, in early 1943, they were very surprised.  
Others would know better but I don't think Germany had a working microwave radar until the very end of the war.  
All of their wonderful advances came too late to change the outcome.Jim
Logic: Method used to arrive at the wrong conclusion, with confidence.  Murphy

-----Original Message-----
From: Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com>
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sun, Jun 5, 2022 3:04 pm
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] DFing The LOs?

#yiv7581609614 -- filtered {}#yiv7581609614 filtered {}#yiv7581609614 p.yiv7581609614MsoNormal, #yiv7581609614 li.yiv7581609614MsoNormal, #yiv7581609614 div.yiv7581609614MsoNormal {margin:0in;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;}#yiv7581609614 a:link, #yiv7581609614 span.yiv7581609614MsoHyperlink {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv7581609614 span.yiv7581609614EmailStyle19 {font-family:sans-serif;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;}#yiv7581609614 .yiv7581609614MsoChpDefault {font-family:sans-serif;}#yiv7581609614 filtered {}#yiv7581609614 div.yiv7581609614WordSection1 {}#yiv7581609614    >Hue https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/26998/20200822/story-between-carrots-night-vision.htm Jim    There are no references provided. I suggest this article is highly fluff. Even in those benighted times, well before our present benighted times, I don’t think anyone really thought carrots gave a noticeable advantage for night vision. The story that came down through the years and survives is about bilberry. Although I do doubt that you can get enough of the active constituents by having bilberry jam with breakfast. Maybe some night vision effect was noticed over the years in ages past from consumption of bilberry over time, and this knowledge entered folk wisdom. Those RAF fighter pilots were pretty young guys anyway and didn’t need all the  help with night vision that I did. I think the Germans were well aware of the British radars.-Hue Miller ______________________________________________________________
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