Hue

OK, here is some more "fluff"

http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/ww2seeinthedark.html

Lots 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=true

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/nov/01/blackout-britain-wartime

https://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/4142066

But 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@msn.com>
To: milsurplus@mailman.qth.net <milsurplus@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sun, Jun 5, 2022 3:04 pm
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] DFing The LOs?

>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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