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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 =
|intercommunality =
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|elevation m = 46
|elevation min m = 0
|elevation max m = 62
|area km2 = 6.41
|population =
|population date =
|population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
}}
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'''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
==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==
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==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]
{{Calvados communes}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Viervillesurmer}}
[[Category:Communes of Calvados (department)]]
[[Category:Calvados communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia]]
[[Category:Populated coastal places in France]]
{{Calvados-geo-stub}}
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