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Joseph Medicine Crow: Becoming a War Chief
Born on the Crow reservation in Montana in 1913, Joseph Medicine Crow was raised by his elders in the warrior tradition of his grandfather, a great war chief. Serving with the 103rd Infantry Division in Europe, he led a war party, touched an enemy and took his weapon, and captured German horses, unknowingly completing the four deeds required of a Crow war chief.
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President Johnson escalates the war while promising the public that victory is in sight.
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Germany and the Japanese surrender too and millions try to learn to live without war.
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By mid March, 1945, they are across the Rhine, while Russians are 50 miles from Berlin.
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On D-Day, 1.5 million Allied troops take part in the greatest invasion in history.
