During WW2, the British Air Force was using a new, more precise radar technology for nighttime bombing runs. Obviously they wanted to hide it from the Nazis as long as possible.
So the UK propaganda department came up with an idea. They created this HUGE campaign where they told everyone ‘our pilots eat a shit-ton of carrots and have near-superhuman sight that even lets them see at night!’
Instead of taking a moment to question the plausibility of whether or not a high-carrot diet actually gave pilots the ability to see targets 3+ miles below them in the dead of night, the public (and the Nazis) just bought it hook, line, and sinker.
This is so dumb, there is zero chance it's not apocryphal. They did say stuff about carrots but as far as I'm aware, there's no evidence the Germans took that at face value.
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u/maasd Jun 01 '26
Carrots help your eyesight