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From: eos!woody@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Wayne Wood)
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Subject: Re: Drugs in War
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Date: 23 Dec 89 06:04:57 GMT
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From: eos!woody@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Wayne Wood)

In article <12531@cbnews.ATT.COM> mmm@cup.portal.com writes:
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>From: mmm@cup.portal.com
>I'd heard that vitamin A (actual vitamin A, not a code name for amphetamine)
>was given to WW2 bomber personnel to improve their night vision.  I'd heard
>this in an article I read about the discovery that sharks were a prodigous
>source of the raw material.
>
>Is this true?  Or is the bit about "vitamin A" being fed to bomber crews
>over Germany just a cover story for serious drug use.

it can go either way.  a deficiency of vitamin A will seriously impair your 
night vision.  vitamin A is used by the body in the production of "Visual
Purple", the substance in the eye that allows us to see at night...

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