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The drama unfolded late on Thursday morning several miles west off the French coast, in a shipping lane of the Dover Strait, also known as the Pas de Calais.
From BBC • Oct. 28, 2022
He misled the Germans about the time and location of the invasion and helped convince his German handlers that Pas de Calais was the target of the main attack.
From Fox News • Jun. 5, 2019
His greatest success was persuading German commanders that the Allied invasion would come in France’s Pas de Calais region, far north of the real Normandy landing beaches.
From Seattle Times • May 30, 2018
The Calais region – Nord Pas de Calais – has one of the highest unemployment rates in France: 13% compared with 10% nationwide.
From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2015
An arrondissement of the Pas de Calais has just been the theatre of an event quite out of the ordinary course.
From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
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