Definitions
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- noun the strait between the English Channel and the North Sea; shortest distance between England and the European continent
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Examples
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The buildup included Normandy to the southwest; the extensive Allied deception campaign for the most part convinced the führer and German military leaders that the main landing would be northeast at Pas de Calais.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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The seven children, the youngest of them 20 months old, come from towns in France's Pas de Calais region.
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The buildup included Normandy to the southwest; the extensive Allied deception campaign for the most part convinced the führer and German military leaders that the main landing would be northeast at Pas de Calais.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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The seven children, the youngest of them 20 months old, come from towns in France's Pas de Calais region.
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In the run up to the famous battle, the allies put the famous military commander in charge of a fake decoy army, complete with fake tanks and radio traffic, all to fool Hitler that the invasion of mainland Europe was to take place at the Pas de Calais rather than Normandy.
Andy Thayer: How Russian Gay Activists Outwitted the Secret Police 2010
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In the run up to the famous battle, the allies put the famous military commander in charge of a fake decoy army, complete with fake tanks and radio traffic, all to fool Hitler that the invasion of mainland Europe was to take place at the Pas de Calais rather than Normandy.
Andy Thayer: How Russian Gay Activists Outwitted the Secret Police 2010
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Operation Fortitude -- the deception plan that fooled the Germans into stationing 450,000 Wehrmacht troops 130 miles north of the Normandy beaches -- entirely depended upon German intelligence (the Abwehr) believing that the real attack was going to take place at the Pas de Calais instead.
Notable & Quotable 2009
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An arrondissement of the Pas de Calais has just been the theatre of an event quite out of the ordinary course.
Les Miserables 2008
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The Allies created two phony armies under Gen. George S. Patton (temporarily in purdah for slapping a soldier) to con the German General Staff into believing that they were crossing the Channel closer to Germany, at the Pas de Calais.
Why The Allies Won 2008
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What I found interesting about the French election was that in the parts of France that I know, on the first ballot rural Brittany notably Finisterre voted for Mme Royale while the area around Lille and the Pas de Calais voted for Sarkozy with the centrist candidiate only doing well in the Basque country.
Le Pen is Finished 2007
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