Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes

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Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes
Part of Aure sur Mer
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Coordinates: 49°20′53″N0°48′22″W / 49.3481°N 0.8061°W / 49.3481; -0.8061 Coordinates: 49°20′53″N0°48′22″W / 49.3481°N 0.8061°W / 49.3481; -0.8061
Country France
Region Normandy
Department Calvados
Arrondissement Bayeux
Canton Trévières
Commune Aure sur Mer
Area
1
5.69 km2 (2.20 sq mi)
Population
 (2019) [1]
533
  Density94/km2 (240/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code
14520
Elevation0–78 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.

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. [2]

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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 took a German guard prisoner. [3]

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%

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