Cirey-sur-Vezouze explained

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.

History

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]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 1 February 2022. fr.
  2. Lewis. SAS Nazi Hunters: The Ultra-Secret Unit and the Hunt for Hitler's War Criminals (Quercus, London (2015)).