The London Daily Telegraph reported:

‘Measures to oppose the expected air invasion of England, are virtually completed. These include digging trenches through park grounds, sports palaces and fields, and the erection of road barricades. Furthermore, armed patrols have been organised and all road signs and place designations removed.’

London: The Reuters News Agency reported:

‘Today the twice-weekly London-Bordeaux-Lisbon air-service was resumed. This line has restored air communications between England and the United States, because the "American Clipper" regularly flies into Lisbon.’

Westminster: Churchill today reviewed the war situation. In parliament he said: "We shall go on to the end ... we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender ..."

Rousing MP’s patriotic fervour, he continued: "Even if - which I do not for a moment believe - this land or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry out the struggle until in God’s good time the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the Old."

Earlier in his sombre report the Prime Minister described the Dunkirk evacuation as "a miracle of deliverance" even though the there had been "a colossal military disaster". Now, he said, Britain faced an imminent threat of invasion. But Napoleon had failed and so, too, would Hitler.

FRANCE: Dunkirk: The evacuation of the BEF and some of the French troops trapped with them comes to an end when the last ship, the destroyer HMS Shikari, leaves at 3.40 am. In the last four days and nights, 64,000 , 26,000 , 27,000 and 26,000 men are saved, giving a total of 340,000. 40,000 are left behind the form the rearguard. 222 naval vessels and some 800 civilian craft joined in the operations; six destroyers and 243 other ships have been sunk. RAF Fighter Command lost 106 aircraft during the seven days of the evacuation, the Luftwaffe 150 aircraft. Among the last to come ashore at Dover were seven French telephone operators, a party of railway engineers and a girl aged five, rescued from a Belgian farm. The RN must now take steps to protect Britain from invasion. An invasion fleet is to be attacked as it builds up and before it can reach British shores. Four destroyer flotillas with cruiser support move to the south, and escort and other vessels patrol offshore. The loss of these escorts from Atlantic convoy duties contributes to the sinking of many merchant ships, and eventually they return to duties.

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GERMANY: Daily Keynote from the Reich Press Chief [Otto Dietrich].

‘The German bomb assault on Paris must be depicted as a military operation that does not violate international law, and the description of its effects must be disseminated as widely as possible via the translating and interpreting service, especially in broadcasts to England and France.

Kiel: At 0800 Admiral Wilhelm Marschall, flying his flag on schlachtschiff Gneisenau (Kapitan zur See Harald Netzbandt), leading schlachtschiff Scharnhorst (Kapitan zur See Caesar Hoffmann) and schwere kreuzer Admial Hipper (Kapitan zur See Hellmuth Heye) and escorted by the only four operational destroyers in the fleet [Hans Lody (Huberts Baron v. Wangenheim), Karl Galster (Theodor Baron v. Bechtolsheim), Erich Steinbrinck (Rolf Johannesson), and Hermann Schoemann (Theodor Detmers, later captain of the raider Kormoran)] as well as two torpedo boats [Falke and Jaguar], had departed Kiel for Operation "Juno" a foray into the waters off Northern Norway. (Mark Horan)

The day saw 38 sorties in miserable weather. Although no enemy forces were encountered throughout, the effort was considerable.

0035 Fighter patrol of two 800 Squadron Skuas (Lt. G. E. D. Finch-Noyes, RN)

0245 Weather and A.D.A. patrols form 810 Squadron

0345 Fighter patrol of three 800 Squadron Skuas (Lt. G. R. Callingham, RN)

0550 Weather and A.D.A. patrols by 820 Squadron, Fighter patrol by three 803 Squadron Skuas (Lt. C. H. Filmer, RN)

0645 Fighter patrol of three 800 Squadron Skuas (Lt. K. V. V. Spurway, RN)

0750 Fighter patrol of three 803 Squadron Skuas (Lt. C. W. Peever, RN)

0850 Weather and A.D.A. patrols by 820 Squadron

1005 Fighter patrol of two 803 Squadron Skuas (Lt. D. C. E. F. Gibson, RN) [later VA Sir, KCB, DSO, DSC]

1115 Armed recce flight by two 800 Squadron Skuas (Lt. R. T. Partridge, RM) each armed with a 250 pound SAP bomb to recon the road between Sorfold and Drag. Low clouds kept any useful observation from being performed, but one of the aircraft bombed a jetty on the way home

1145 Weather and A.D.A. patrols by 810 Squadron, Fighter patrol of three 800 Squadron Skuas (Lt. G. E. D. Finch-Noyes, RN). This patrol reports the transports leaving at 1430.

1515 Weather and A.D.A. patrols by 810 Squadron reports weather is was not unacceptable and flying was suspended inshore.

2200 Flight operations resumed; A/S patrol by one Swordfish of 820 Squadron for five merchant vessels and two trawlers leaving Harstad.

2350 Weather and A.D.A. and relief A/S patrols by 810 Squadron, Fighter patrol by three Skuas of 803 Squadron (Lt.Cdr. J. Casson, RN)

CANADA: HMCS Shawinigan is laid down in Lauzon, Province of Quebec.