Weird and wonderful true stories about World War II

Stoned pigeons guiding bombs, German-eating sharks and a chocolate plot to kill Churchill.

They sound like something out of a wartime comedy film – but these were actually among the more weird plots thought up in a bid for victory.

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And you can find them in a new book called Weird War Two, from the ­Imperial War Museum.

Here are a few more gems:

1: The US military trained pigeons to sit inside bombs and steer them by pecking at a target on a screen. This unnerved them, so they were fed cannabis before the mission. The project was cancelled because it was so bird-brained.-read more