the British Government discovered that carrots improve nightvision to the point that the British gunners could vastly improve their ability to see and shoot down Nazi planes so got the British public to grow and consume epic levels of carrots to improve their vision in the blackout and so they could better take down the enemy bombers. The British hit rates massively, massively improved thanks to the humble carrot and subsequently the Germans started their own carrot growing production to get a similar effect....
....except it weren't the carrots. The carrots were a lie to hide the fact that the British had invented the radar and could in fact plainly see the Nazis coming. It had the added benefit of encouraging the food-starved British population to easily grow a vegetable in their gardens that could feed them which they all delusionally believed increased their night-vision to superhero strength.
Have you read any of Ben Macintyre's books about spies? They're terrific. Operation Mincemeat, Agent Zigzag, Double Cross, and A Spy Among Friends are among my favorites.
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....except it weren't the carrots. The carrots were a lie to hide the fact that the British had invented the radar and could in fact plainly see the Nazis coming. It had the added benefit of encouraging the food-starved British population to easily grow a vegetable in their gardens that could feed them which they all delusionally believed increased their night-vision to superhero strength.
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Have you read any of Ben Macintyre's books about spies? They're terrific. Operation Mincemeat, Agent Zigzag, Double Cross, and A Spy Among Friends are among my favorites.
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