Operation Cowboy: When U.S. Cavalry and Germans Fought Together in WWII to Save 1,200 Horses from the Soviets

Operation Cowboy: When U.S. Cavalry and Germans Fought Together in WWII to Save 1,200 Horses from the Soviets

Operation Cowboy stands as one of only two documented occasions during World War II when U.S. and Wehrmacht forces fought alongside each other against a common enemy. The raid saved more than 1,200 horses, including 375 irreplaceable Lipizzaners whose bloodlines stretched back four centuries through the Habsburg Dynasty. Days later, the Czechs greeted their American liberators with flowers as U.S. armor rolled into Pilsen. But the Yalta Conferen…