Editing Vierville-sur-Mer

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{{Infobox French commune
|name                   = Vierville-sur-Mer
|commune status         = [[Communes of France|Commune]]
|image                  = Vierville Sign.jpg
|caption                = Dog White and Dog Red sectors on [[Omaha Beach]]
|image coat of arms     = Blason_ville_fr_Vierville-sur-Mer (Calvados).svg
|arrondissement         = Bayeux
|canton                 = Trévières
|INSEE                  = 14745
|postal code            = 14710
|mayor                  = Antoine de Bellaigue<ref>{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|publisher=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=13 September 2022|language=fr}}</ref>
|term                   = 2020&ndash;2026
|intercommunality       = [[Communauté de communes Isigny-Omaha Intercom|CC Isigny-Omaha Intercom]]
|coordinates            = {{coord|49.375|-0.9039|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation m            = 46
|elevation min m        = 0
|elevation max m        = 62
|area km2               = 6.41
|population             = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
|population date        = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}
|population footnotes   = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
}}

'''Vierville-sur-Mer''' ({{IPA|fr|vjɛʁvil syʁ mɛʁ|-|Fr-Paris--Vierville-sur-Mer.ogg}}, literally ''Vierville on Sea'') is a [[Communes of France|commune]] in the [[Calvados (department)|Calvados]] [[Departments of France|department]] in  [[Normandy (administrative region)|Normandy]] [[Regions of France|region]] in northwestern [[France]].

==History==
===World War II===
[[File:A platoon of Negro troops surrounds a farm house in a town in France, as they prepare to eliminate a German sniper... - NARA - 531188.jpg|thumb|left|Black soldiers tracking a sniper  Omaha Beachhead, near Vierville-sur-Mer, France. 10 June 1944]]
[[File:Cimetière provisoire à Vierville.jpg|thumbnail|left|Honor guard with the flag and a bugler during a mass at the site of the first temporary cemetery in Vierville, June 10, 1944.]]
On 6 June 1944 ([[Normandy landings|D-Day]]), the U.S. Army's 116th Infantry Regiment of the 29th Infantry Division, along with the 5th Ranger Battalion, and A, B, and C Companies of the 2nd Ranger Battalion landed on Dog Green, Dog White, Dog Red, and Easy Green sectors of [[Omaha Beach]], below Vierville-sur-Mer, starting at 6.30 am.

==Population==
{{Historical populations
|source = INSEE<ref name=pophist>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/7633058?geo=COM-14745#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE</ref>
|percentages = pagr
|align = none
|1968 |265
|1975 |255
|1982 |292
|1990 |256
|1999 |237
|2009 |244
|2014 |251
|2020 |231
}}

==See also==
*[[Communes of the Calvados department]]

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.americandday.org ''American D-Day: Omaha Beach, Utah Beach & Pointe du Hoc'']
*[http://www.normandie44lamemoire.com/ History on the 101st Airborne division]

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[[Category:Communes of Calvados (department)]]
[[Category:Calvados communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia]]
[[Category:Populated coastal places in France]]


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