[Sca-cooks] Carrots

[Terry Decker]

This tale was an attempt at disinformation in WWII.

In 1934, Rudolf Kuhnold demonstrated the first working radar for the German 
High Command and in the following year,Robert Alexander Watson-Watt began 
setting up radar test stations in England.  By 1940, Great Britain had a 
fully functional radar system that was used during the Battle of Britain to 
good effect.  To try to hide effectiveness of the radar from the Germans, 
the War Office leaked the tale of carrot eating RAF night fighters.

IIRC, the Brits used the commando raid at Dieppe in 1942 to mask an 
intelligence raid on a German radar installation on the French coast trying 
to determine the capabilities and weaknesses of the German radar.

Bear

> The night air raids over England during World War II were stopped  by a
> special Air Force Batallion that was given enormous rations of carrots
> to eat so they could see in the dark. After that carrots became the
> second most consumed product in the world after potatoes.
> Suey