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Operation Cowboy
Part of the Western Front of World War II
Date28 April 1945 (1945-04-28)
Location
Hostau, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Result

Allied success

  • Many POWs freed
Belligerents
  • Operation Cowboy United States
  • Operation Cowboy Wehrmacht POWs
  • Allied POWs
  • Operation Cowboy 1st SS Cossack Cavalry Division deserters

Operation Cowboy Nazi Germany

  • Operation Cowboy Waffen-SS
Commanders and leaders
  • United States Captain Thomas M. Stewart
  • United States Major Robert P. Andrews
  • Operation Cowboy Lt.Col. Walter Holters
  • Operation Cowboy Lt.Col. Hubert Rudofsky
Operation Cowboy Unknown
Units involved
  • United States 42nd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Group, XII Corps
Operation Cowboy Waffen-SS Infantry
Strength
325
Casualties and losses
2 killed Many taken POWs

Operation Cowboy was fought in the town of Hostau, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now Hostouň in the Czech Republic), on 28 April 1945, in the last days of fighting in the European theater of World War II. It is one of two known incidents during the war in which Americans and Germans of the Wehrmacht fought side by side against the Waffen-SS, the other being the Battle of Castle Itter.

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