UNITED KINGDOM: Churchill again sends a telegram to Roosevelt">Roosevelt asking for destroyers, calling the matter one "of life and death."

ÉIRE: U.S. passenger liner SS Washington sails from Galway, with 1,872 U.S. citizens escaping Europe. She will arrive in New York City unmolested.

FRANCE: RN begins operation 'Aerial' the evacuation of BEF and Allied troops from Cherbourg and continues for the next 10 days moving right down to the Franco-Spanish border. Over the next three days 30,630 British and Canadian soldiers will be evacuated.

Germany captures Strasbourg and Verdun.

12 million people - fleeing soldiers and terrified civilian refugees - are crowding roads out of every city in the north as Panzers race across France and panic grips the country. In Nancy, students working in bomb-proof cellars at the university are being snatched from their end of term exams by worried parents to join the chaotic stream heading west and south - in any direction away from the Germans. The town council has ordered the evacuation of the city, unaware that the enemy is relying on confusion and blocked roads to prevent the French army from re-grouping.

Panzergruppe Guderian reaches the Saone River from here they will turn east.

GERMANY:

U-137 commissioned.

U-105 launched.

U-572, U-574 laid down.

LITHUANIA: Kaunas: The Red Army marched into Lithuania today. There was no resistance as the Soviet troops crossed the frontier in great strength and President Smetona fled by plane from the capital with his family and other leading Lithuanians.

200 Soviet tanks led the occupation of Kaunas. Russian soldiers have taken up positions at all the public buildings. Planeloads of Soviet officials, including NKVD agents, are pouring into the airport. One of the first acts of the secret policemen was to arrest General Skucas, the Minister of the Interior, and Mr. Povilaitus, the chief of the state police. Martial law has been declared and there is a night long curfew.

The Lithuanians, realising that there is nothing they can do to resist the Russians, are resigned to the occupation of their country, but there is considerable excitement among the local German population, which besieged its legation today demanding to go home.

The occupation is seen here as another move by Stalin to build a barrier of occupied countries between the Soviet Union and Germany. He has part of eastern Poland, he has forced Finland to give up strategic territory now he has Lithuania, and the other Baltic states tremble.

U.S.A.: President Roosevelt">Roosevelt signs a Congressional Act authorizing the USN to have a strength of not more than 10,000 aircraft and 16,000 air crew, which overrides the bill signed yesterday authorizing a strength of 4,500 aircraft. The act also specifies 850 aircraft for the Naval Reserve and not more than 48 useful airships.

The U.S. refuses to recognize the annexation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union nor the annexation of Estonia and Latvia which the Soviets occupy on 17 June.

ATLANTIC OCEAN: HMS Andania (Armed merchant cruiser) is lost to U-A (an ex-Turkish boat) while on Northern Patrol between Ireland and Iceland.

SS Erik Boye (2,238,GRT) ex-Danish mercantile, Canadian manned, was torpedoed and sunk off Land's End, UK, in position 50.37 N, 008.44W, by U-38, KptLt. Heinrich LIEBE, Knights Cross and Knights Cross with Oak Leaves, CO. There were no casualties in this incident. ERIK BOYE was part of convoy HX-47, a 57-ship convoy from Halifax to Liverpool. She was loaded with 3,568 tons of wheat. U-38 had sunk the Norwegian 10,000-ton tanker ITALIA a day earlier. The convoy arrived in the UK on 17 June 1940 having lost two of its ships to U-38. U-38 was a long-range Type IX U-boat built by AG Weser at Bremen. Commissioned 24 October 1938. U-38 conducted 11 patrols and compiled an impressive record of 35 ships sunk for a total of 187,077 tons and 1 ship damaged for a further 3,670 tons. U-38 survived the war and was scuttled on 05 May 1945 at Wesermünde. She was later salvaged and was broken up for scrap in 1948. Heinrich LIEBE was born in 1908, at Gotha. He joined the navy in 1927. In 1931 he served on battleship SCHLESWIG- HOLSTEIN. In Sep 35 he transferred to the newly-formed U-boat force. He commanded U-2 and U-10 before he commissioned U-38. Due to the very small size of the pre-war U-boat force, LIEBE was one of only a very few experienced commanders. His professional competence quickly showed during his command of U-38, in which he made nine operational patrols. On his last patrol he sank eight ships for a total of 47,279 tons in the waters off Freetown, Africa. During this patrol he received the Oak Leaves cluster to the Knight's Cross. In total, LIEBE became the fifth highest U-boat ace. In Jul 41 he left U-38 and spent the next three years as a staff officer in German Navy High Command. From Aug 44 to the end of the war he served on the staff of the U-boat HQ. On 01 Oct 44 he was promoted to Fregattenkapitän (senior Commander). There is no record of his having been detained at the end of the war, as most U-boat officers were.