Lucien J. Bourgoin was born on January 10, 1922, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He served in the Headquarters Detachment of the Office of Strategic Services during World War II.

During the night June 20 to June 21, 1944, the Jedburgh team "Ian," made a blind landing at Léché, near Lussac-les-Chateaux in France, after an unsuccessful attempt the day before. Lieutenant Maingard (nicknamed Samuel) from La Ville-es-Offrans, welcomed the team and drove Major (US) John Gildee , Captain (FR) Alexandre Desfarges (Yves Delorme) and the Sergeant (US) Lucien Bourgoin (Mayo) to the Command Post. The team's mission was to contact the Resistance organization in Vienne, Deux-Sevres and Charente Departments, to conduct sabotage operations on the railroad network between Bordeaux and Paris and Bordeaux and Saumur. The team conducted a two-week training for the FFI (French Forces of the Interior).

On August 2, 1944, Team Ian decided to leave Cherves-Chatelars for Charroux to prepare an equipment drop. On the way, they were warned by two FFI motorcyclists that a retreating German column was in the area. As it arrived in Pleuville, it was heavily fired at by German troops deployed in the village. The motorcyclists, despite being wounded, succeeded to escape. As the driver of the team's car was severely wounded, the car was stuck in the middle of the road. The rest of the team members tried to escape through the woods nearby. Bourgoin was then killed while running across the road.

1Sgt Bourgoin is now buried in the Rhone American Cemetery and Memorial, France.

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