RAF Bomber Command: 4 Group (Whitley). Bombing - aluminium works.

RAF Training Command. Two Blackburn B-2’s lost with four crew in a mid-air collision over the River Humber.

77 Sqn. Eight aircraft to aluminium works Ludwigshaven. Weather filthy. Seven bombed.

102 Sqn. Eight aircraft to aluminium works Ludwigshaven. Two returned early, six bombed.

London: The Allies discuss how to stop the French navy falling to the Germans.

Corvette HMS Geranium commissioned.

FRANCE: 22,000 soldiers who had been holding out in the Vosges mountains, surrender.

11 Leo45s of 6th Bomber Group attack German pontoon bridges between Moirans and Grenoble. Only 4 machines found their target and the attack was unsuccessful. This is the last French bombing raid of the campaign.

Corvette FS Alysse laid down.

GERMANY: The OKW orders Hauptmann v. Menges of the Operationsabteilung of the General Staff to prepare a short study concerning the invasion and conquest of Switzerland. This is done without Hitler's explicit order as a contingency plan. (Russ Folsom)

ITALY: Rome: France faced its final humiliation today when the terms of the armistice with Italy were published. Although Italian troops made little headway against fierce French resistance during the few weeks of campaigning, demilitarised zones are to be established in France, Tunisia and Algeria - with Italian troops remaining on their advanced lines. The French are required to clear the battlefields of mines. France will allow Italy "full and constant right" to the port of Djibouti in Somaliland.

JAPAN: Tokyo: Pu Yi, the puppet emperor of Manchukuo and last emperor of China, arrives on an official visit.