An American soldier of the 44th Infantry Division poses beside a captured or discarded 155mm artillery shell near a line of European railroad boxcars, one marked with a chalked Star of David. Snapshots like this, taken by U.S. troops advancing through Germany in the closing months of World War II, often documented both the machinery of war and sobering evidence of the Holocaust encountered along the Allied advance in 1944-1945. Project: 218403