FRANCE: VICHY FRANCE: The French Havas News Agency reports:-
The French Admiralty has announced that because of the British fleet’s attack on our naval combat forces which were in the process of disarmament, French naval officers are prohibited from wearing British medals.

NORTH SEA: Whilst surfaced to charge batteries British submarine HM S/M Shark is attacked by German aircraft 30 miles south-west of Stavanger in the Norwegian Sea. She is so badly damaged after some 5 hours of attacks by Do.17, HE.111 and Me. 110 that no she can no longer dive, and has no ammunition left. With 3 crew killed and 18 wounded, the Commander decides to surrender. An Arado seaplane (Ar 196A-3 of Coastal Reconnaissance Group 706 (Kü.Fl.Gr 706)) lands behind the submarine and promptly sinks, the crew coming on board, claiming that the float was damaged by gunfire, although the submarine commander reckoned it was due to making a bad landing! The Germans remained on the bridge as the Shark’s wounded crew are brought up and laid on the casing, whilst the crew below ensure destruction of all vital equipment. On the following morning a Dornier seaplane lands alongside and the commander is taken on board with one of the other officers who is badly wounded. As they fly away, Shark is seen to be down at the stern with about 10 aircraft overhead. Later some trawlers with medical staff on board arrive from Stavanger and take off the wounded.  However, as soon as they try to tow Shark away, she rears up and sinks stern first. (Alex Gordon and Jack McKillop)(108)

GERMANY:

Berlin: Hitler’s return from the Western Front is greeted by vast enthusiastic crowds.

The Nazis have decided that when they have conquered Britain all men aged between 17 and 45 will be deported to Germany. Himmler’s SS has also prepared a Black Book with the names of 2,820 people who are to be rounded up as dangerous subversives. They include Noel Coward, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, E. M. Forster, J. B. Priestley, H. G. Wells, Bertrand Russell and Beatrice Webb. 

The Irish writer George Bernard Shaw, who Hitler admires greatly, is absent from the list. 

But psychiatrist Sigmund Freud is also included although he died last year, and the Gestapo will have difficulty in tracing "Lady Carter-Bonham", as no such lady exists.

"Lady Carter-Bonham" is probably meant to be Lady Violet Bonham Carter, a daughter of the First World War (and both the last non-coalition Liberal, and first coalition Liberal) Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith. Bonham Carter was a pronounced advocate of the Liberal Party throughout her long life and was one of Winston Churchill's oldest and most enduring friends. She was an early opponent of appeasement and was a member of Churchill's Focus Group.

Lady Violet was created the Baroness of Yarnbury late in her life. Her memoir of Churchill, published shortly after his death, is a remarkably able volume both for its warmth and its depth. (Marc James Small and Matt Clark)

Algeria, Oran: The damaged French capital ship 'Dunkerque' is torpedoed at her moorings by HMS Ark Royal's Swordfish.
(Mark Horan and Richard Pelvin add): Expanding on this action, this was the concluding action of the attack, dubbed Operation "Lever", whose purpose was to guarantee that Dunkerque was out of action for at least a year. Initially, another bombardment was called for by HMS Hood and HMS Valiant but, as Dunkerque was beached in front of the main portions of the port, high civilian casulties would have been expected, something His Majesties Government did not want. Thus, the plan was revised such that a surprise dawn strike by Swordfish TSRs from HMS Ark Royal would be made.

The attack plan called for three waves to attack beginning roughly at dawn. At 0520, in position 36.19N, 02.23W, Ark Royal commenced launching first serial, composed of six Swordfish of 820 Squadron, FAA. This was followed, at 0545, by a second serial of three Swordfish from 810 Squadron, FAA with six Skuas escorts of 800 Squadron, FAA. The third serial followed at 0620, composed of three more Swordfish of 810 Squadron escorted by six Skuas of 803 Squadron, FAA.

The first wave struck in a diving attack at first light from out of the rising sun, obtaining complete surprise. Of the six torpedoes dropped, four hits were claimed; all six aircraft returned safely. The second wave struck at 0647 in the face of heavy AA fire, coming in from over the breakwater. Only two torpedoes were released, but a further hit was claimed that caused a "large explosion". No enemy aircraft were encountered, and all nine aircraft returned safely. No torpedoes hit DUNKERQUE but one cut the patrol vessel TERRE NEUVE in two and she sank immediately. She had been alongside DUNKERQUE taking off crew and loading coffins of men killed in the 3 July attack.

The third wave, although launched much later, followed hot on the tails of the second wave. AA fire was light, and they believed they scored an additional hit. This time several French aircraft came up to engage and the Skuas found themselves tangled up in several dogfights, and although all nine aircraft got back to the task force, one Skua was forced to land in the sea nearby, the crew being rescued by an escorting destroyer, HMS Vidette.

Of the torpedoes that missed, at least two were released so close that close the safeties did not release, and another hit a tug ESTEREL, lying 70 metres from the battle cruiser,  disintegrating it and another went under DUNKERQUE's hull and struck the stern wreckage of TERRE NEUVE exploding forty two 100 kg depth charges. 40 feet of Dunkerque's hull was ripped out in the explosion. While Dunkerque was eventually patched up enough to sail to Toulon, she had, effectively been removed for service for the war which was, after all, the whole goal of the operation.

SUDAN: Gallabat: The Sudan Defence Force at the frontier post is attacked by a greatly superior Italian force, but fights a successful delaying action and inflicts heavy losses on the enemy.