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Home Town Thibodaux
Last Address Thibodaux, LA
Date of Passing Oct 30, 2015
Location of Interment Saint Joseph Cemetery - Thibodaux, Louisiana
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Major Bourgeois graduated in 1941 from the Hotel Dieu School of Nursing, New Orleans, Louisiana. She enlisted in the Army as a nurse on 10 February 1945. She had assignments in the Philippines withe the 248th General Hospital and 20th Station Hospital where she served two tours. Then, to the 97th General Hospital in Frankfurt, Germany. She then served in New Mexico. Her last duty station was at West Point. She served until her retirement 31 January 1962.
She was known as "Duce" ("Douce").
WWII - Asiatic-Pacific Theater
From Month/Year
December / 1941
To Month/Year
September / 1945
Description The plan of the Pacific subseries was determined by the geography, strategy, and the military organization of a theater largely oceanic. Two independent, coordinate commands, one in the Southwest Pacific under General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and the other in the Central, South, and North Pacific (Pacific Ocean Areas) under Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, were created early in the war. Except in the South and Southwest Pacific, each conducted its own operations with its own ground, air, and naval forces in widely separated areas. These operations required at first only a relatively small number of troops whose efforts often yielded strategic gains which cannot be measured by the size of the forces involved. Indeed, the nature of the objectivesùsmall islands, coral atolls, and jungle-bound harbors and airstrips, made the employment of large ground forces impossible and highlighted the importance of air and naval operations. Thus, until 1945, the war in the Pacific progressed by a double series of amphibious operations each of which fitted into a strategic pattern developed in Washington.
21 Named Campaigns were recognized in the Asiatic Pacific Theater with Battle Streamers and Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medals.
