Brucheville
Brucheville | |
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Part of Carentan-les-Marais | |
The church of Saint-Hilaire | |
Coordinates: 49°22′25″N 1°12′18″W / 49.3736°N 1.20500°W | |
Country | France |
Region | Normandy |
Department | Manche |
Arrondissement | Saint-Lô |
Canton | Carentan |
Commune | Carentan-les-Marais |
Area 1 | 13.33 km2 (5.15 sq mi) |
Population (2019)[1] | 138 |
• Density | 10/km2 (27/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Postal code | 50480 |
Elevation | 0–21 m (0–69 ft) (avg. 4 m or 13 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Brucheville (French pronunciation: [bʁyʃvil]) is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in northwestern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the commune Carentan-les-Marais.[2] It is located at the south east corner of the Cherbourg peninsula, about 90 km east of Caen.
World War II
[edit]After the liberation of the area by Allied Forces in 1944, engineers of the Ninth Air Force IX Engineering Command began construction of a combat Advanced Landing Ground outside of the town. Declared operational on 2 August, the airfield was designated as "A-16", it was used by the 36th Fighter Group which flew P-47 Thunderbolts until late August when the unit moved into Central France. Afterward, the airfield was closed.[3][4]
Population
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019, INSEE
- ^ Arrêté préfectoral 6 December 2018 (in French)
- ^ Johnson, David C. (1988), U.S. Army Air Forces Continental Airfields (ETO), D-Day to V-E Day; Research Division, USAF Historical Research Center, Maxwell AFB, Alabama.
- ^ Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.
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