‘On May 28, enemy air losses totalled 24 aircraft, 16 of which were shot down in aerial combat, 8 by Flak. Three German aircraft are missing. [German air ace] Captain Molders has won his 20th air victory.’

The German take Ostend and Ypres in Belgium and Lille in France.

FRANCE: Operation Dynamo: 47,310 men are evacuated today. The French allow evacuation of their troops.

Three RN destroyers are sunk off the beaches - HMS Grafton torpedoed by U-62, HMS Grenade by bombs, and VandW class HMS Wakeful by a torpedo from German Schnellboot S30. HMS WAKEFUL was carrying 600 troops who were below decks and of whom only 1 survived. Casualties numbered about 650 crew and soldiers, and only 25 plus an embarked soldier survived the sinking. 

Destroyer HMS GRENADE whilst alongside the east mole at Dunkirk is damaged and disabled by aircraft attacks. The destroyer is abandoned and her burning hull towed clear of the main channel. After burning for some hours, she then blows up.

Destroyer Grafton is torpedoed by U-62 in the English Channel 13 miles north of Nieuport. Alongside at the time was Trawler HMS Comfort. HMS Ivanhoe later sinks Grafton the same day after the crew and troops had been taken off.

Trawler HMS Comfort is attacked by own side forces and then rammed in the English Channel 13 miles north of Nieuport. After suffering some flooding and damage whilst alongside Grafton, Comfort pulls away and is mistaken for a German S boat by HMS Lydd and is fired upon with 4 inch and Lewis guns. Lydd then rams the trawler and cuts her in half. Some of the crew of Comfort attempt to jump on to Lydd, but are mistaken for Germans and repelled with gunfire. 

Minesweeper HMS Waverley, a paddlesteamer, is bombed in the English Channel near Kwint Bank Buoy by German aircraft. Four of the 600 embarked troops are killed outright and another 150 drown as Waverley sinks.(Alex Gordon)(108)

Minesweeping trawlers HMS Calvi and Polly Johnson bombed and sunk off Dunkirk.

47,310 men are taken off.

The arrival of French warships improves the take off rate.

The Allied rearguard leaves the Cassel, Poperinghe, Yser line.

Lieutenant-General Alan Brooke, General Office Commanding II Corps is ordered to leave France for the United Kingdom. (W. Jay Stone)

Somme: French 4th Armoured Div., resumes its attack and reaches its second objective leaving the Germans holding only Mount Caubert, the last stronghold covering the bridges over the Somme.

The war diary of the German Blumm Division reads: "Our anti-tank guns had little effect on the French armour. Our anti-tank defences were crushed and our infantry had to retreat. A profound fear of tanks infected our ranks."

NORWEGIAN CAMPAIGN: HMS Glorious was detected by a snooper, resulting in one section of 802 Squadron, led by Lieutenant G. D. D. Lyver, RN, being sent off and ultimately downing one He-111. Thereafter, Glorious was ordered to return to Scapa. She arrived off the harbour at 1600 on the 29th, but was unable to enter due to fog. (Mark Horan)