[Stealhead]

He was in WWII and according to Wikipedia he did eat a huge amount of carrots in the belief that this would improve his eyesight though I do not believe that he had bad vision and if he did it corrected some other way.It all depends on what the problem some people must need glasses for life or surgery others they may only need to wear glasses for certain time span and their vision corrects.

Carrots actually do not improve your eyesight though.

In the Wikipedia article I only see one iffy linked source alluding to his poor vision.I also only find one source for the claim that he ate of the carrots with a sourced link which interestingly enough is a the same exact article as the source for the poor vision claim only on a different page.So all things considered I think that the whole thing is a story his poor vision and carrot eating.In the entire section on his early life uses the same questionable web article as a source with a few exceptions.Not trying to nit pick you Cyber I do have issue with whoever wrote that Wikipedia article and I rather dislike it being a military history buff when incorrect or questionable claims are made.

I do know for certain the he got a "kill by maneuver" which means that he made such an aggressive attack that it made the enemy pilot loose control resulting in a crash.It was a head attack one MiG-15 via 6 .50 cals and his wing man that freaked out and went into a flat spin and never recovered.Credit was given because the pilot lost control trying to evade Jabara's attack.He also went into combat with a hung drop tank something that made the F-86 exceedingly difficult to control and still scored kills against a numerically superior enemy to boot and the MiG-15 was no slouch especially in Soviet hands.



Kind of ironic that some pilots would make such a beginners mistake of landing at the wrong airfield and one named after a highly skilled aviator.