Arpin, Louis Wilfred
Navy Reserves Seaman 1st class

Louis Wilfred Arpin, age 19, from Acadia County Crowley, Louisiana .

Parents: A. L. Arpin

Service era: World War II
Schools: Crowley HIgh graduate, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge

Date of death: Wednesday, October 25, 1944
Death details: Killed in the sinking of the USS Gambier Bay during the Battle of Leyte.
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Manila American Cemetery

Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Daily Tribune (1944), Crowley Post Signal (1944)