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From: moshe@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Moshe Yudkowsky)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Drugs in War
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Date: 27 Dec 89 03:40:31 GMT
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From: moshe@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Moshe Yudkowsky)

In article <12531@cbnews.ATT.COM> mmm@cup.portal.com writes:

>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.

The tale about British fighter pilots having excellent night vision,
due to their intake of carrots, was a cover story hiding the British
use of radar to home in on enemy  planes.  This sounds like more of the
same.

A vitamin A  deficiency will degrade your eyesight.  Adding vitamin A
to a balaced diet will *not* improve your eyesight.  

-- 
         Moshe Yudkowsky   moshe@ihnet.att.com  att!ihnet!moshe
 "I never saw any problem, however complicated, that when looked at
  the right way wasn't still more complicated."
                                               -- Poul Anderson