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Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes | |
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Part of Aure sur Mer | |
Coordinates: 49°20′53″N0°48′22″W / 49.3481°N 0.8061°W Coordinates: 49°20′53″N0°48′22″W / 49.3481°N 0.8061°W | |
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 |
• Density | 94/km2 (240/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Postal code | 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. |
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]
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.
Year | Pop. | ±% |
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1962 | 333 | — |
1968 | 293 | −12.0% |
1975 | 310 | +5.8% |
1982 | 371 | +19.7% |
1990 | 391 | +5.4% |
1999 | 415 | +6.1% |
2008 | 582 | +40.2% |
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