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    Querqueville (French pronunciation: [kɛʁkəvil]) is a former commune in the Manche department in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged...
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    Fort de Querqueville The casemates of Fort de Querqueville Western wall of the outer harbour View of the harbour from the cemetery at Querqueville View of...
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  • Querqueville Airfield is a former airfield .4 km (0.25 mi) north-northwest of Querqueville in the Normandy region of France. The airfield was already in...
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    been used for centuries in several ways: Crushed granite extracted in Querqueville and arkoses of Becquet, have been used for the manufacture of rubble...
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    of the time. The Chapel of Saint Germanus (Chapelle Saint-Germain) at Querqueville with its trefoil floorplan incorporates elements of one of the earliest...
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    museums in the 21st century. The aircraft arrived by air from Germany to Querqueville Airfield which is under a kilometer away from Cherbourg. These ships...
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    communes of Cherbourg-Octeville, Équeurdreville-Hainneville, La Glacerie, Querqueville and Tourlaville. The seat of the commune is in Cherbourg. Cherbourg-Octeville...
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  • Dizier, to Melun and then to Cherbourg, on Querqueville Airfield, also known as ALG A-23C Querqueville. All the aircraft were cocooned against the salt...
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    de Plain-Marais in Beuzeville-la-Bastille, private Château de Querqueville in Querqueville, owned by local authority, open to visitors (town hall) Château...
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    limitations; there was only one tanker berth, on the exposed Digue de Querqueville. It too was subject to disruption by bad weather; a storm on 4 October...
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    Brown. Twenty days later, she was also involved in the bombardment of Querqueville, silencing the German guns there. German shore batteries opened fire...
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    the 7th US Corps on Cherbourg, she shelled the German batteries near Querqueville. During this exchange of fire Glasgow was hit and damaged. In August...
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    Fort de Querqueville, one of the casemated coastal forts at Cherbourg, which was based on Montalembert's system...
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    Warwicks replaced Ansons from April 1944 September 1944 to unknown - HQ at Querqueville Lysander, Walrus, Hurricanes, Defiants, Spitfires, and Warwicks Warwicks...
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  • Royal Chestnut (1917) No info No info Histoire (1929) No info No info Querqueville (1938) Vas-y donc (1921) No info No info Cancale (1925) No info No info...
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    (Santa Maria del Fiore). Examples in France exist in the churches at Querqueville in Normandy and St Christophe at Suèvres, both dating from the 10th century...
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    veneration of the saint can be found in La Hague in the Cotentin at Querqueville and also at Omonville-la-Rogue where a 13th-century mural in the church...
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  • Helmuth Rohrbach (Le Vicel) 739 Grenadier-Regiment:  Oberst Walter Köhn (Querqueville) 919 Grenadier-Regiment:  Oberstleutnant Günther Keil (Montebourg) 1709...
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    until 1959. Beached fire training ship under the name of Lucifer II at Querqueville, France between 1967 and 2002. HMS Wye K371 Henry Robb, Leith 18 November...
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    enjoy for only two hours. Returning from this mission to Cherbourg- Querqueville, Wick ordered the aircraft refueled and re-armed. Together with Leie...
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    airdrome in the world." In September 1944, the group moved forward to Querqueville Airfield, an advanced landing ground in France, and in the same month...
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  • Squadron RAF. A detachment and then the whole squadron relocated to Querqueville, France, and then Belgium following the Normandy landings. The squadron...
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    1944 (B-26) A-23 Querqueville, France Located: 49°39′51″N 001°41′38″W / 49.66417°N 1.69389°W / 49.66417; -1.69389 (A-23 Querqueville) Opened: 6 July...
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    the French Air Force in 1937 as an annex to the military airfield at Querqueville. It consisted of a 1,000m grass runway. In 1939, a concrete perimeter...
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    German salvos from a village three miles (4.8 km) west of Cherbourg at Querqueville began falling among the deployed minesweeper flotillas. Four British...
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  • Hurricanes shot down, including one by Adolph. The RAF attacked the Querqueville Airfield on the afternoon of 1 August. In defense of this attack, I....
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    Naval Forces to clear away the underwater obstacles and put the Digue de Querqueville, which had been the largest POL offloading point in the continent before...
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    construction of a jetty "two thousand toises long" between the tip of Querqueville and the reefs of Île Pelée, with the dredging of a harbour to a depth...
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  • It consists of the following communes: Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (partly: Querqueville) La Hague "Décret n° 2014-246 du 25 février 2014 portant délimitation...
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    increase the protection of the harbour (until then provided by the forts at Querqueville and Pelée island). As a result of this publication, in 1804, Napoleon...
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