A World Struggle II soldier who was killed within the mountains of France throughout a German offensive in 1944 has been recognized, and his stays shall be reburied at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery in Virginia, navy officers mentioned this week.Â
Jeremiah P. Mahoney, 19, of Chicago, was killed on Jan. 17, 1945, within the Vosges Mountains of France throughout a weeks-long battle.
Mahoney had been assigned to the Military’s Anti-Tank Firm, 157th Infantry Regiment, forty fifth Infantry Division, and his unit resupplied and bolstered the regiment through the combating.Â
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Jeremiah P. Mahoney, 19, of Chicago, was killed on Jan. 17, 1945, within the Vosges Mountains of France throughout a weeks-long battle. (Protection POW/MIA Accounting Company)
“In some unspecified time in the future on Jan. 17, Mahoney was killed, however as a result of depth of the combating his unit couldn’t get well his physique because it was compelled to withdraw from the realm,” the Protection POW/MIA Company (DPAA) mentioned in a launch Thursday. “With no report of German forces capturing Mahoney, and no stays recovered, the Struggle Division issued a ‘Discovering of Loss of life’ in January 1946.”
His demise got here simply 4 months earlier than Germany surrendered to the Allied forces in France in Might 1945.Â
Mahoney’s stays have been recovered in 1946 by the American Graves Registration Command, however they have been unable to be recognized on the time and have been finally buried on the Ardennes American Cemetery in Belgium in 1949.Â
A college alumni discover of Mahoney’s demise. (Protection POW/MIA Accounting Company)
Two years in the past, Mahoney’s stays have been exhumed from the cemetery as DPAA historians started doing in-depth analysis into troopers who went lacking within the space, believing the stays, recognized then as Unknown X-6379, might be Mahoney’s.Â
His stays have been exhumed in August 2022 and transferred to a DPAA laboratory for evaluation.Â
Utilizing DNA, anthropological and circumstantial proof, he was recognized in Might of this 12 months, and can finally be reburied at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery.Â
A clipping of Mahoney’s memorial service after the Struggle Division issued a “discovering of demise” whereas he was lacking in motion. (Protection POW/MIA Accounting Company)
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A rosette may even be positioned subsequent to his identify on the Partitions of the Lacking at Epinal American Cemetery in Dinozé, France, to point out that he has been discovered.Â
