Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes

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Part of Aure sur Mer in Normandy, France

Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes
Part of Aure sur Mer

Location of Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes
49°20′53″N 0°48′22″W / 49.3481°N 0.8061°W / 49.3481; -0.8061
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Bayeux
Canton	Trévières
Commune	Aure sur Mer
Area ¹	5.69 km² (2.20 sq mi)
Population (2019)^[1]	533
• Density	94/km² (240/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	14520
Elevation	0–78 m (0–256 ft) (avg. 70 m or 230 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t ɔnɔʁin de pɛʁt]) 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.^[2]

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.^[3]

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.