A soldier from Chicago was killed in a WWII attack launched on New Year's Eve 1944. He's finally bee

[rangerrebew]

A soldier from Chicago was killed in a WWII attack launched on New Year's Eve 1944. He's finally been accounted for.
By Kerry Breen

Updated on: October 25, 2024 / 5:41 PM EDT / CBS News


A 19-year-old soldier who was killed during World War II has been accounted for, military officials said Thursday.

U.S. Army Pvt. Jeremiah P. Mahoney was assigned to an anti-tank company in Europe during the war, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said in a news release. Maroney, originally from Chicago, was part of the 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division.

Shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve in 1944, German forces launched a major offensive in the mountains of Alsace-Lorraine, France, surging over Allied defenses along the border of France and Germany, U.S. officials said. The offensive turned into a massive battle stretching over 40 miles. The battle raged for weeks, with Mahoney's unit resupplying and reinforcing his regiment near the French village of Reipertswiller.

On Jan. 17, 1945, Mahoney was killed amid the fighting. His body could not be recovered, and the War Department issued a "Finding of Death" a year later.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wwii-soldier-identified-chicago-jeremiah-mahoney/

[catfish1957]

Back in 1944, when there were REAL NAZIs

[PeteS in CA]

He was killed in the Germans' "Operation Northwind", which was intended to support their offensive commonly called The Battle of the Bulge. US forces had been thinned in Alsace and Lorraine as units moved north to the Bulge and the Germans tried to exploit that thinning, ultimately unsuccessfully.

[AL]

RIP brother.