UNITED KINGDOM: London: Old bandstands from the parks as well as the railings around them are being scrapped to help the war effort. Mrs Hugh Dalton, the wife of the Minister for Economic Warfare, is leading a drive to uproot railings as chairman of the London County Council parks committee. One bandstand to be demolished is in Temple Gardens beside the Embankment. Streets, squares and crescents of Victorian and Regency houses are having the railings chopped from their garden walls. Some people claim that London looks better without them. Victorian churchyards are also yielding up their railings, but so far Buckingham Palace railings are sacrosanct. There is a proposal to take up disused tramlines for scrap.

Large congregations gathered at churches of all denominations this Sunday for the National Day of Prayer "on behalf of the nation and Empire, of their allies and of the cause in which they are united", as German armies pour into France and the British reach Dunkirk.

The King and Queen were at Westminster Abbey, accompanied by the refugee Queen of the Netherlands, Queen Wilhelmina, and Mr. Churchill. In his sermon the William Temple, Dr Lang, called the war "a mighty conflict against the powers of evil". At Westminster Cathedral Cardinal Hinsley spoke of a "just crusade for deliverance from the evil which rests on force alone."

RAF 46 Sqn., three flights of 6 Hurricanes, each led by a single Swordfish of 823 Squadron take off from HMS Glorious and land at Skaanland near Narvik. The first flight leaves at 2130, and is the only flight that actually lands at Skaanland.The landings at Skaanland prove to be a series of minor disasters. The airfield was not built to handle the heavy, high-speed fighters. Sqn. commander Kenneth Cross brought his Hurricane down perfectly - until his wheels bogged and his plane stood on its nose, bending the propeller. Another fighter did a half-somersault when it caught its wheel in chicken wire used to hold the field’s sod runways in place. Clambering out of his plane, Cross stormed over to a greying airfield construction officer and demanded, "What the hell sort of place is this to bring Hurricanes into?" The officer, who had worked himself to exhaustion to get the field ready, burst into tears. The upside-down Hurricane was righted, someone straightened Cross’s propeller with a hammer, and the squadron managed to take off for Bardufoss and join 263 Squadron. The Skaanland field was abandoned. For the first time, the Allies have modern fighter aircraft based in Norway. Unfortunately, and unknown to the Allied troops on the ground or to the Norwegians, the disaster in France has resulted in the decision to pull the Allied troops out and abandon Norway to her fate. Glorious herself remains off Narvik to offer some element of air cover for the Fleet.

At 1600, Vice-Admiral Well's force arrives in the Clyde, docking at Greenock. HMS Ark Royal needs to replenish her sorely depleted ammunition and stores. HMS Furious is in need of further repairs; her role in the NORWEGIAN CAMPAIGNis now over.

U.S.S.R.: Soviet submarine K-2 commissioned.

ATLANTIC OCEAN: Destroyer HMCS Fraser departed Bermuda for UK.