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** Mainly the OKW (German High Command) waited 6 ''weeks'' before releasing the Panzers from the Pas de Calais. The reason? British Intelligence had convinced them that the FUSAG (First US Army Group) were waiting in Kent to cross the narrowest point of the Channel, to the land in part of France closest to Germany. They succeeded this with inflatable tanks, radio operators broadcasting messages from fake units, and the fact it's headed by a real General - George Patton. The Germans reasonsed that if the allies were keeping their most aggressive general in England, they ''must'' be planning something big (Patton nagged Eisenhower repeatedly to be allowed to go). If such a huge, never to be repeated deception doesn't seem enough of a [[CMoG]] then consider the part played by...

*** 'Garbo', who is a German spy and regularly broadcasts the information to the Germans. Even tells them about "Overlord" before they knew. The catch - he was a double agent (The invasion warning was timed to be too late to be of any use, but enough to make him appear very credible). So good and awesome that after the war Garbo bumped into one of his old Nazi "handlers" ''who handed him an Iron Cross'' for his services.

* Defeating the Axis in WW2.

* Jose M. Lopez. It's commonly accepted wisdom that the "M" stands for "Motherfucking". Ask the Nazis. The scene was during the Battle of the Bulge, 1944, and during [[World War II]]. Lopez's sstory is similar to that of Alvin York, except Lopez suffering a few scratches. Only a few. Oh, and Lopez, also took on a Tank which was firing shells directly at him (Many striking close enough to bowl him over repeatedly...That's where his many scratches came from). Also, the endless Nazi soldier waves. Oh, and his final kill count that's estimated to be over a hundred men that he singlehandedly mowed down, and saving his entire company from being overun. He even did all this running back and forth to different sides of the battlefield with his 30+ pound machine gun every time they were going to be outflanked, then singlehandedly push the Nazi tide back. Jose Lopez never had any cover protecting him above the waist. Now you see why the "M" stands for "Motherfucking"?

** Unknown if this makes it more of a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|CMoA]] or just a truly terrifying, was the fact that the scientists involved didn't actually know what would happen. They were more worried that the explosion's sheer power might cause the atmosphere to spontaneously combust, literally destroying the world...AND THEY DID IT ANYWAY!

* Anyone that has seen the [[Dogfights]] episode "Long Odds" can talk about the scouting mission by ''Old 666'', were a Japanese plane squadrons painfully discovered was heavily customized by their crew into what is probably the most well-armed aircraft of the war.

** Therefore, not even [[Satan]] himself can ignore the effects of [[More Dakka]].

** For more details, that mission was the only bomber mission were two members of the same crew got the Medal of Honor for different actions and every other member won the Distinguished Service Cross. The first MoH went to Jay Zeamer, the pilot, for firstly shooting down an enemy plane with a remote controlled gun, and then, while wounded with a broken leg and multiple fragment wounds brought the plane down to where the crew didn't need the broken oxygen system by watching the increase in manifold pressure in the engines, and refused first aid, lapsing into unconsciousness, until the plane crash landed, at which point he was so badly injured; the rest of the crew removed him last, assuming that Jay was dead. The other went to bombardier, Joseph Sarnoski, for shooting down multiple Japanese planes while wounded, and then after getting hit with a 20mm shell that blew him out of the compartment, sought aid until a second wave of fighters came, and shot down at least one of them. He, unfortunately died at his station from his wounds.

** She even commanded 7,000 French troops that engaged in guerrilla warfare to sabotage the Nazi.

** Once, the supply drops were threatened by the destruction of radio codes. Nancy embarked on a marathon bike ride, cycling about 500 km in 72 hours and bypassing several German checkpoints, just to find an operator to radio Britain and requesting new codes.

** Don't forget her husband, who was tortured and executed by the Gestapo, just for refusing to give up on her. Also counts as a [[Heartwarming Moments|Heartwarming Moment]].

* De Gaulle, a chief of the FFF,'s reaction when the German radio stated that "Free French Soldier will be shot and not taken prisoner for felony," as officially France had surrendered: De Gaulle stated that, from this moment onward, German prisoners will also be shoot, too.