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Mont Pinçon

Mont Pinçon

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Mont Pinçon is the highest point of the Department of Calvados, in Normandy, with an elevation of 362 metres (1,188 ft).[1] It is in the west of Norman Switzerland about 30 kilometres (20 mi) to the south-west of Caen, near the village of Plessis-Grimoult.

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It was the site of many strategic battles in the Battle of Normandy with the Allied attack in Operation Bluecoat.[2] In 1956, Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF, now TDF) installed a transmitter pylon over 200 metres (660 ft) high, which still serves most of the Basse-Normandie region.[3]

TDF installation
  • "User site with pictures of the TDF installation" (in French). Retrieved 2009-04-15.

References

  1. [1]
    "Moors of Mont-Pinçon".
  2. [2]
    "BRITISH TROOPS OCCUPY MONT PINCON AND ITS ENVIRONS [Allocated Title]". IWM Film.
  3. [3]
    "Mont Pinçon Heath". Calvados Tourisme.


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