Army private who died in WWII identified almost 80 years after his death

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"A young US Army soldier from Chicago who died fighting in World War II has spent nearly 80 years as nameless remains. Now he's been identified."

"Mahoney was digging a foxhole when the German shelling began...another soldier in his company wrote in a letter to Mahoney's mother."

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