Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes

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Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}) 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.<ref>Arrêté préfectoral 9 December 2016 Template:In lang</ref>

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.<ref>Operation Aquatint</ref>

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

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