Battle of the Atlantic

• U-boat U-102 disappears in the Irish Sea area possibly sunk by a mine. The British cargo liner Avelona Star (13,400 t) is sunk by U-43 southwest of Lands End.
• From the beginning of June to date a dozen merchant ships have left the United States for Britain carrying guns and other arms.

Channel Islands

The Germans land on the Channel Island of Guernsey, the only British territory occupied in World War II.

United States, Politics

In the Republican Party convention held this week in Philadelphia Wendell Willkie is selected as the presidential candidate after the 6th ballot by a margin of 654 to 318 over Sen Robert A. Taft. The convention is overwhelmingly in favor of a policy of non-intervention in the war.

Western Front

220,000 French troops surrender. They were cut off in the underground fortresses of the Maginot Line.[MORE]

The crew of a French bunker of the Maginot Line surrenders to German troops in June 1940. The face of the French soldier in the center says it all. The French army was not a well motivated one, no comparisson to their fathers in 1914-1918. The German soldier on the right is wearing cotton bags to stash hand grenades.

Surrendering French Soldiers, Maginot Line 1940