Air Operations, Europe
18 Latécoère seaplanes divebomb bridges and road junctions between Boulogne and the Somme. Me-109s shoot down 3.
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]Atlantic
- 6 British destroyers evacuate 4,400 troops from Boulogne, under heavy fire. The French destroyer Orage is bombed and sunk off Boulogne. The destroyer Jaguar is torpedoed and sunk by E-Boats S-21 and S-23 off Dunkirk. 13 of her crew are lost.
- The Greek steamer Galaxias (4293t) is sunk by German bombing at Dieppe. The entire crew is rescued.
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- U-9 sinks the German steamer Sigurds Faulbaums (3256t) in the North Sea. The vessel had been take in prize by the Belgians at Antwerp on the 10th.
- The German steamer Franz Haniel (2188t) sinks on a mine in a German defensive minefield near Kiel.
| ]Britain, Home Front
The former leader of the British Union of Fascists, Sir Oswald Mosely, is arrested along with 33 others including 6 women. Also detained is a Member of Parliament, Capt Ramsay. Ramsay has been connected with the Right Club (see May 18). The men are imprisoned at Brixton; the woment, at Holloway.
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| ]United States, Politics
Pres Roosevelt wins the Democratic primary in Vermont and is now certain to receive his party's nomination for the November elections.
[ | ]Western Front
The Germans cross the River Scheldt at Oudenarde. Gen von Rundstedt, commanding Army Group A, orders his tank forces to halt their advance. Despite this order 2nd Pzr Div are attacking Boulogne and inland the British evacuate Arras. The BEF are put on half-rations following the loss of its supply depots. Owing to this retreat the planned Allied counteroffensive is postponed. It is becoming clear to the British generals in France that an evacuation by sea is probably going to be necessary.[MORE]
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