Cricqueville-en-Bessin is a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in northern France.
The municipality takes its name from its deep-water creek that forms a natural harbor, from Crycavilla.
Just outside of Cricqueville, the United States Army Air Force established an airfield shortly after D-Day on 9 June 1944, just three days after the Allied...
