Brucheville

Brucheville
Part of Carentan-les-Marais
The church of Saint-Hilaire
Location of Brucheville
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Coordinates: 49°22′25″N 1°12′18″W / 49.3736°N 1.20500°W / 49.3736; -1.20500
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Manche
Arrondissement	Saint-Lô
Canton	Carentan
Commune	Carentan-les-Marais
Area ¹	13.33 km² (5.15 sq mi)
Population (2019)^[1]	138
• Density	10/km² (27/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	50480
Elevation	0–21 m (0–69 ft) (avg. 4 m or 13 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

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]

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1793	372	—
1800	374	+0.5%
1806	468	+25.1%
1821	456	−2.6%
1831	334	−26.8%
1836	342	+2.4%
1841	339	−0.9%
1846	345	+1.8%
1851	338	−2.0%
1856	303	−10.4%
1861	294	−3.0%
1866	301	+2.4%
1872	274	−9.0%
1876	309	+12.8%
1881	292	−5.5%
1886	300	+2.7%
1891	296	−1.3%
1896	278	−6.1%

Year	Pop.	±%
1901	261	−6.1%
1906	255	−2.3%
1911	237	−7.1%
1921	255	+7.6%
1926	263	+3.1%
1931	228	−13.3%
1936	245	+7.5%
1946	237	−3.3%
1954	223	−5.9%
1962	204	−8.5%
1968	207	+1.5%
1975	181	−12.6%
1982	174	−3.9%
1990	140	−19.5%
1999	147	+5.0%
2007	149	+1.4%
2009	145	−2.7%

References

^ Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019, INSEE
^ Arrêté préfectoral 6 December 2018 (in French)
^ 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.
^ 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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