Saint-Pierre-du-Mont, Calvados

Saint-Pierre-du-Mont is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

Saint-Pierre-du-Mont
Commune
The chateau in Saint-Pierre-du-Mont
Location of Saint-Pierre-du-Mont
Saint-Pierre-du-Mont
Saint-Pierre-du-Mont
Coordinates: 49°23′13″N 0°58′25″W
CountryFrance
RegionNormandy
DepartmentCalvados
ArrondissementBayeux
CantonTrévières
IntercommunalityCC Isigny-Omaha Intercom
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Marcel Houyvet
Area
1
4.96 km2 (1.92 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
80
 • Density16/km2 (42/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
14652 /14450
Elevation0–42 m (0–138 ft)
(avg. 36 m or 118 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

History

World War II

During World War II, the area was heavily bombarded on several occasions during May and early June 1944 by Allied bombers, attacking German coastal fortifications of the Atlantic Wall just north of the commune along the coast.

Saint-Pierre-du-Mont was liberated by American Ranger forces on 7 June 1944 after moving inland from Pointe du Hoc. The area north of the commune was used by the United States Army Air Forces as a combat airfield, known as Advanced Landing Ground "A-1" (Saint-Pierre-du-Mont). The airfield was used between early June and September 1944. It was abandoned after the Americans moved east into Central France with the advancing Allied Armies.[2]

Population
Historical population
YearPop.±%
1881250—    
1921154−38.4%
1946125−18.8%
1962111−11.2%
1968111+0.0%
197584−24.3%
198278−7.1%
199084+7.7%
199985+1.2%
200878−8.2%

See also

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. 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.


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