On the Western Front… The German advance continues inexorably. The 7th Panzer Division takes Cherbourg, 5th Panzer Division occupies Brest. Among other towns captured are Le Mans, Briare, Le Creusot, Belfort, Dijon and Colmar.

Over Germany… The RAF bomb Hamburg and Bremen.

From London… General de Gaulle, as yet comparatively unknown to the majority of his countrymen, makes a radio address urging the French to fight on, saying that only a battle and not the whole war has been lost.