Brucheville

Brucheville

Brucheville

Part of Carentan-les-Marais in Normandy, France

Brucheville (French pronunciation: [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.

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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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  1. [1]
    Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019, INSEE
  2. [2]
    Arrêté préfectoral 6 December 2018 (in French)
  3. [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. [4]
    Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.
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