London: This morning the BBC reported:

‘The Germans have suffered heavy losses near Abbeville. Several hundred German soldiers have been taken prisoner, and the Germans left behind considerable war material. The Allies have reconquered the area around Abbeville and crossed the Somme at one point. The disembarkation of British and French troops is continuing on English seaports. The majority of contingents of the northern Allied armies have been successfully transported to England. The troops who have stayed behind, are fighting on with undiminished courage.’

FRANCE: As the Dunkirk evacuation continues under heavy air attack, destroyers HMS Keith, HMS Basilisk and HMS Havant and the French 'Le Foudroyant' are bombed and lost off the beaches. 64,429 men are evacuated (17,000 from the beaches, the rest from the mole in Dunkirk Harbour). The RAF sorties 8 large patrols over Dunkirk. But they  decide that the air battles are becoming too dangerous for continued evacuation operations during daylight hours.

B class destroyer leader HMS Keith is suffers air attacks in the English Channel off Bray at 51 06 02 32E. Her steering is jammed, her engine room damaged and she lists to port. The Admiral transfers to MTB 102 and then Keith is sunk by further bombing.36 of the crew become casualties in the air attacks, and an additional 100 when the rescue tug is lost.  

Destroyer HMS Basilisk is overwhelmed in a series of air attacks and loses all steam power. She is finally sunk in the English Channel off La Panne at 51 08N 02 35E in shallow water and her hull destroyed by depth charges dropped by HMS Whitehall. There are 131 survivors.

Just after departing Dunkirk, HMS Havant receives two bomb hits in her engine room and another as she passes over it. Is anchored and the soldiers transferred to other craft whilst under airattack. She is then abandoned, rolls over and sinks in the English Channel off Dunkirk at 51 04N 02 35E. There are 8 casualties.

The perimeter is drawn in, the British withdrawing from the Colme to the line Bergues, Uxem, Ghyrelde, Bass-Plaine.

Leading Seaman Ernest Frederick Eldred was on the destroyer HMS Harvester during the evacuation from Dunkirk. The crew members thought they were simply on patrol; then they saw the boats steaming across the Channel.

"I suppose you would call it more of a holiday scene with every type of boat and craft, an endless line across the Channel; some being towed by larger boats. It was a fantastic sight." As a destroyer, the Harvester was responsible for fighting off German air attacks as well as picking up as many men as possible from the beach. "I don't think the destroyers have ever carried so many men as we did, there must have been hundreds, literally crammed in every space you could think of; you could hardly have got a cat aboard each time."

He recalls that they just "set them down anywhere we possibly could ... down the stokehole, engine room, mess decks were full, upper deck was crowded, everywhere. The only place we couldn’t have them was by the guns."

Paris: This morning the French Army reported:

‘The French and British land, sea and air forces at Dunkirk are continuing, in full accord, their stubborn fight against the impressing German troops, and at the same time are trying to secure the evacuation.’

Paris: Leopold III, the King of the Belgians, is struck off the Order of the Legion of Honour.

NORWAY: A week after deciding to withdraw from Norway, the Allies announce the evacuation of all troops.
Both carriers and their escort continue their passage to Norway. (Mark Horan)

SWITZERLAND: Bern: The Swiss Army Staff reported:

‘This afternoon in the Jura mountains, Swiss sovereign territory was violated by foreign aircraft. The Swiss Alarm Patrol immediately took up pursuit, engaged in aerial combat with a German bomber and shot down the aircraft near Lignieres (Ger. Tassenberg). One hour later another Swiss fighter plane engaged in aerial combat with a second German aircraft over the Freiburg region (Fr. Franches-Montagnes). The burning German plane crashed onto French territory near Oltingen, on the other side of the Swiss border.’

CHINA: Hsiangyang falls to the Japanese.