Millery, Meurthe-et-Moselle

Millery
Millery
Commune
	The church in Millery
	Coat of arms
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	Coordinates: 48°49′04″N 6°07′52″E / 48.8178°N 6.1311°ECoordinates: 48°49′04″N 6°07′52″E / 48.8178°N 6.1311°E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Meurthe-et-Moselle
Arrondissement	Nancy
Canton	Entre Seille et Meurthe
Intercommunality	CC Bassin de Pompey
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Denis Bergerot
Area 1	7.48 km2 (2.89 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)	615
• Density	82/km2 (210/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	54369 /54670
Elevation	183–392 m (600–1,286 ft) ; (avg. 182 m or 597 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Millery is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.

History[]

During World War II, on Saturday, 29 July 1944, an RAF Avro Lancaster Type B III bomber (s/n ND756 AA°M), while on a mission^[2] to the German city of Stuttgart, was shot down by Luftwaffe night fighters and crashed at 1:25 a.m. on the Falaise hill near Millery.^[3] Out of the seven crew members,^[4] four died — including three from New Zealand and one British — and were buried in the village cemetery, where their graves^[5] can still be seen.^[6]