Cirey-sur-Vezouze | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason Cirey sur Vezouze 54.svg |
Arrondissement: | Lunéville |
Canton: | Baccarat |
Insee: | 54129 |
Postal Code: | 54480 |
Mayor: | Jean-Claude Bazin[1] |
Term: | 2021 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | CC de Vezouze en Piémont |
Coordinates: | 48.58°N 6.95°W |
Elevation M: | 260 |
Elevation Min M: | 273 |
Elevation Max M: | 393 |
Area Km2: | 16.39 |
Cirey-sur-Vezouze (in French pronounced as /siʁɛ syʁ vəzuz/, literally Cirey on Vezouze) is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.
During the Second World War, a Royal Canadian Air Force Lancaster Bomber was forced to crash land near Cirey-sur-Vezouze after a bombing raid on Stuttgart. Three of the crew were killed in the crash landing with a further two airmen (including Flight Sergeant Fordham) being apprehended, taken into the nearby forest and summarily executed by German forces. Three war graves lay in Cirey-sur-Vezouze's graveyard, with the shallow graves in the forest being discovered and exhumed by a team led by Major Eric Barksworth.[2]