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Interesting. Carrots/Vitamin A were credited with the RAF shooting down enemy planes in WWII - Apparently a cover story for radar. http://gizmodo.com/carrots-
by abandonliberty 10y ago
Interesting.
Carrots/Vitamin A were credited with the RAF shooting down enemy planes in WWII - Apparently a cover story for radar.
http://gizmodo.com/carrots-improve-your-vision-is-a-wwii-lie-1633939494 http://gizmodo.com/carrots-improve-your-vision-is-a-wwii-lie...
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoSo the cover story could have been right in this respect and we could have unwittingly given the Nazis a minor advantage? Weird.
- andai 10y agoThe cover story was a cover story!
- mnw21cam 10y agoOn the other hand, the UK government actually hired people who had had cataract operations, and therefore no longer had a UV-filtering lens in their eyes and could see UV light. Their job was to watch the coastline just in case the Germans tried to signal to collaborators on land using UV light. http://www.komar.org/faq/colorado-cataract-surgery-crystalens/ultra-violet-color-glow/ http://www.komar.org/faq/colorado-cataract-surgery-crystalen...