Brucheville Explained

Brucheville
Arrondissement:Saint-Lô
Canton:Carentan
Insee:50089
Postal Code:50480
Commune:Carentan-les-Marais
Coordinates:49.3736°N -1.205°W
Elevation M:4
Elevation Min M:0
Elevation Max M:21
Area Km2:13.33
Population:138
Population Date:2019
Population Footnotes:[1]

Brucheville (in French pronounced as /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

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]

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/6011070/ensemble.pdf Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019
  2. https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/arrete/2018/12/6/TERB1833986A/jo/texte Arrêté préfectoral
  3. 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.
  4. Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. .