In 1945, a group of American soldiers set out to rescue hundreds of horses from a Nazi farm in Czechoslovakia

In April 1945, a group of American soldiers learned that hundreds of Lipizzaner horses were being held on a farm in western Czechoslovakiaand set out to rescue them before the Red Army could reach them. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll tell the story of Operation Cowboy, one of the strangest episodes of World War II. — Read the rest