Mont Pinçon Explained

Mont Pinçon
Elevation M:362
Label Position:right
Location:Calvados, Normandy, France
Range:Armorican Massif
Map:France
Coordinates:48.9714°N -0.6267°W

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

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 high, which still serves most of the Basse-Normandie region.[3]

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References

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