Miss hitler?!?

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/08/13/bizarre-plans-by-allies-to-turn-hitler-into-a-woman-revealed-in-new-book-91466-29230095/

Hmmm, I suppose it's possible, but would want to read the good Professor's book to check on documentation and what context this little revelation involves.  There were hundreds of schemes going on in WWII - there are in any major conflict.  Just because someone writes something down on a cocktail napkin during a get-together, it doesn't mean that there's a serious plan afoot.  And the whole sex change thing sounds ludicrous to me, it really doesn't solve anything for the Allies, if you think about it carefully.

As for the Panjamdrum, I think the author is being a little harsh.  Yes, it was a disaster.  But it wasn't put into actual use, that's what the testing was for.  And the problem it was trying to solve was a very real one for Allied planners - how to breach the Atlantic Wall fortifications during D-Day, (a procedure that needed accuracy and lots of explosive power with (hopefully) a minimum exposure to the men using it).  Desperate times call for some desperate research and development.  And not everything works out.  I'm inclined to have a kinder view of the folks engaged in it.