re: How were German armored divisions so much more elite than their US counterparts

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Vemork Hydroelectric Plant

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That was done by irregulars prior to Overlord.

There is a dispute if the Germans were even on the right track with heavy water, anyway. I'm not sure, with the self-inflicted brain drain (recall that Einstein fled Nazism and Fermi fled Facism - the person most responsible for the U.S. funding the Manhattan Project, and the single scientist most responsible for the U.S.'s successful nuclear energy/weapons program, respectively).