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Personal info

Full name
LEVASSEUR, Louis Patrick
Date of birth
26 November 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Van Buren, Aroostook County, Maine
Hometown
Van Buren, Aroostook County, Maine

Military service

Service number
6149424
Rank
First Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
513th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
17th Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
24 March 1945
Place of death
Wesel, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
J 14 15

Immediate family

Members
Ernest Levasseur (father)
Emily (Gervais) Levasseur (mother)
Adrienne M. Levasseur (sister)
Fidele Levasseur (brother)
Philip J. Levasseur (brother)
Amanda Levasseur (sister)
Norman M. Levasseur (brother)
Constantin E. Levasseur (brother)
Alye Levasseur (brother)
Victoria Levasseur (sister)
Esperance Levasseur (sister)
Marcelle Levasseur (sister)
Almarie Levasseur (sister)
Martha Levasseur (sister)
Precilla Levasseur (sister)

More information

Louis Levasseur joined the Regular Army in Waco, Georgia on the 8 January 1940.

His parents and oldest sister were born in Canada and moved to Maine in 1916.

His brother Constatin was also killed during WWII in Papua, New Guinea and is buried at the American Military Cemerery and Memorial in Manilla, The Philippines

Source of information: Terry Hirsch, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Birth Certificate / 1930/1940 Census, www.archives.gov

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, The Levasseur Family