But the German Army still used horses extensively, especially for transport.

And now Medicine Crow had found some.

According to the story he later told, he asked his commanding officer for a few minutes before an attack.

He and another soldier moved toward the place where the horses had been left.

He fashioned a simple bridle from rope, mounted one animal, and started the others moving.

Then, with the German position behind him, he drove the herd away.

He later remembered giving a Crow war cry as he rode.

The image feels almost impossible: a Crow soldier in a U.S.

Army uniform, in the middle of twentieth-century Europe, taking enemy horses in a way his ancestors would have immediately understood.

It was not the only traditional war deed he completed overseas.