Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil
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Location within Normandy region
Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil
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| Coordinates: 49°04′54″N 0°16′43″W / 49.0817°N 0.2786°WCoordinates: 49°04′54″N 0°16′43″W / 49.0817°N 0.2786°W | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Normandy |
| Department | Calvados |
| Arrondissement | Caen |
| Canton | Évrecy |
| Intercommunality | CU Caen la Mer |
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| • Mayor (2008–2014) | Pascal Lecœur |
| Area1 | 6.91 km2 (2.67 sq mi) |
| Population (2008)2 | 496 |
| • Density | 72/km2 (190/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 14554 /14540 |
| Elevation | 63–119 m (207–390 ft) (avg. 122 m or 400 ft) |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
This village is known as the site of the death of the famous German tank commander Michael Wittmann on August 8th, 1944, when his Tiger tank (number 007) was destroyed during an ambush. The crew of the destroyed tank was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1983, the German war graves commission located the burial site. Wittmann and his crew were reinterred together at the German war cemetery of La Cambe, plot 47—row 3—grave 120, in France.
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