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

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. Maroney 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.