Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes

Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes
Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes
Location within Normandy region
Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes
Coordinates: 49°20′53″N 0°48′22″W / 49.3481°N 0.8061°W / 49.3481; -0.8061Coordinates: 49°20′53″N 0°48′22″W / 49.3481°N 0.8061°W / 49.3481; -0.8061
Country France
Region Normandy
Department Calvados
Arrondissement Bayeux
Canton Trévières
Area1 5.69 km2 (2.20 sq mi)
Population (2008)2 582
 • Density 100/km2 (260/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code 14591 /14520
Elevation 0–78 m (0–256 ft)
(avg. 70 m or 230 ft)

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Aure sur Mer.[1]

History

World War II

On 13 September 1942 13 British commandos landed at night near Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes from a Motor Torpedo Boat in Operation Aquatint, a reconnaissance mission to collect information about the surrounding area, and take a German guard prisoner.[2]

Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes is located at the eastern end of Omaha Beach, one of the landings sites on D-Day, 6 June 1944, at the beginning of the Battle of Normandy, during World War II.

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1962333—    
1968293−12.0%
1975310+5.8%
1982371+19.7%
1990391+5.4%
1999415+6.1%
2008582+40.2%

See also

References

  1. ↑ Arrêté préfectoral 9 December 2016 (in French)
  2. ↑ Operation Aquatint
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