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Angoville-au-Plain

Angoville-au-Plain
101st Airborne monument
101st Airborne monument
Location of Angoville-au-Plain
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Angoville-au-Plain is located in France
Angoville-au-Plain
Angoville-au-Plain
Angoville-au-Plain is located in Normandy
Angoville-au-Plain
Angoville-au-Plain
Coordinates: 49°20′57″N 1°15′10″W / 49.3492°N 1.2528°W / 49.3492; -1.2528
CountryFrance
RegionNormandy
DepartmentManche
ArrondissementSaint-Lô
CantonCarentan
CommuneCarentan-les-Marais
Area
1
5.68 km2 (2.19 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)[1]
110
 • Density19/km2 (50/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code
50480
Elevation2–32 m (6.6–105.0 ft)
(avg. 12 m or 39 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Angoville-au-Plain (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ɡɔvil o plɛ̃]) is a former commune in the Manche department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Carentan-les-Marais.[2]

It is home to a church that was used by 2 US Army Medics as an aide station during the Battle of Normandy in World War II. Robert Wright and Ken Moore of the 101st Airborne treated a mix of 80 injured American and German wounded soldiers and a child. Blood stains are still visible on the pews. Two stained glass windows commemorate the 101st Airborne Division, the first one is dedicated to the two medics of the 2nd Battalion of the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment (101st Airborne Division). The second one honoured the American parachutists.

Angoville-au-Plain church
  1. ^ "Populations de référence 2022" [Reference populations 2022] (PDF) (in French). INSEE. December 2024.
  2. ^ Arrêté préfectoral 23 December 2015 (in French)

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