An Australian garrison in Tobruk during WWII that became infamous during an 8 month siege against an armored German/Italian Afrika corps. They gave themselves unofficial rat medals with metal from a scrapped German bomber shot down with stolen German guns. ADVERTISEMENT#14 Not the biggest but still a great "f*** you" was delivered by Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. Afterwards his son, who was lieutenant in the red army, got captured by the German army in 1941 and when they tried to trade his release for a field marshall of their own.