Sea War Atlantic: U-boat sinks Argentine SS Uruguay off Cape Finisterre (Argentina protests June 1 and later forbids its merchant ships to enter European waters).

Western Front: Guderian is permitted, by his superiors, to continue the advance from river Aa towards Dunkirk, employing motorized infantry (tanks to be held in reserve).
Franco-British counter-attacks against German 38th Corps holding Abbeville bridgehead south of the Somme; these attacks gravely threaten Germans May 29 but finally fail May 30.

Picture: Private Hubert Brinkfort, the first German soldier who rewards the Knight Cross. At this day he destroyed 11 British tanks near Abbeville in less than twenty minutes with his anti-tank gun at distances under 100 yards.

LE PARADIS MASSACRE: 90 captured British soldiers from 2nd Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment shot by detachment of SS Totenkopf Divsion in meadow near hamlet of Le Paradis, Pas-de-Calais.

Norway: French Foreign Legion, with light tanks, cross Rombaks Fjord and advance along iron-ore railway to Narvik (night May 27-28). Polish Brigade close in from the West.

Picture: the iron-ore railway at the Rombaks Fjord near Narvik.

TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1940

Sea War: 17,800 troops evacuated from Dunkirk; destroyer Windsor damaged by bombs; small steamer sunk by German MTB S-34.

Western Front: (MAIN EVENT) UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER OF BELGIAN ARMY. Cease fire at 4 a.m. except in isolated sectors (all resistance ends May 29). Elimination of the Belgians opens 20 miles gap on left flank of BEF-French Dunkirk pocket. This is closed after fierce fighting in Nieuport area between ad hoc British forces (armoured cars of 12th Lancers, 'infantrymen' of Royal Engineers and Royal Artillery) and German 256th Division.
French 1st Army (with six divisions) surrounded by 7 German divisions near Lille.

BELGIAN CAMPAIGN LOSSES
	Belgian	German
Killed Soldiers	7,550	(not known, not possible to seperate)
Wounded Soldiers	15,850	(not known, not possible to seperate)

Norway: NARVIK CAPTURED by French Foreign Legion and Norwegians.

Air War: French LeO-451 bombers, escorted by Hurricanes, attack bridges in Aubigny area.

Home Front Belgium: Belgian Prime Minister Pierlot broadcasts from Paris. He declares that Belgians are 'dumbfounded' by King Leopold's capitulation and that, since the King acted against Government advice, 'henceforth he has no power to govern', and the Belgian Cabinet will take over all his powers.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1940

Sea War: 47,300 troops evacuated from Dunkirk. Destroyers Wakeful, Grenade and Grafton sunk (latter by U-62). Six British and one French destroyer damaged by bombing, Mackay and Montrose collide and run aground. Eight auxiliary ships and seven merchant ships bombed and sunk.

Norway: British troops evacuated from Bodo.

Western Front: Germans occupy Ostend, Ypres and Lille.

Air War: Two elite units of Junkers Ju88 bombers join assault on Dunkirk. Squadron of RAF Defiant two-seat fighters claim 37 'kills' over Dunkirk (actual total: 14).

Picture: Boulton Paul P.82 Defiant of Fighter Command's 264 Sqn. In fact the concept of the sluggist two-seat fighter was faulty, and production of 1,060 until February 1943 was a disgraceful error. Once the enemy became familar with the Defiant it had had its day by daylight.

Occupied Holland: Dr Seyss-Inquart takes office as Reichskommissar for Holland.

THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1940

Sea War: 53,800 troops evacuated from Dunkirk. French destroyer Bourrasque sunk by artillery fire and mine damage; three British destroyers damaged by bombing. Three large transports sunk.

Picture: the port of Dunkirk with it's wrecked British and French ships.

FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1940

Sea War: 68,000 troops evacuated from Dunkirk. French destroyers Sirocco and Cyclone torpedoed by German MTBs; 6 British destroyers damaged by bombing.

Western Front: French 1st Army surrenders in Lille sector after 4-day siege. BEF withdraw from Belgian sector of Dunkirk pocket (night May 31-June 1). French recapture part of Abbeville.

Air War: Twenty LeO-451s (9 lost) attack Amiens and Abbeville, Douglas DB-7 bombers make low-level attacks on German columns near St Quentin.

China: Japanese High Command in China announces its intention to bomb Chiang Kai-shek's capital of Chungking daily 'until the spirit of Chinese resistance is broken'.

Neutrals, USA: Roosevelt sends $1,000 Millions supplementary emergency defence budget to Congress.

SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1940

Sea War: 64,400 troops evacuated from Dunkirk. Destroyers Keith (flagship), Basilisk and Havant, French destroyer Foudroyant and large transport Scotia bombed and sunk. Fife destroyers damaged by bombing. Evacuation by day has to be abandoned.

Picture from the same day: a Lockheed Hudson reconaissance bomber of the RAF Coastal Command over the beaches of Dunkirk.

Air War: Germans bomb Lyons-Marseilles railway; British liner Orford (20,000 t) sunk at Marseilles.

SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 1940

Sea War: 26,200 troops evacuated from Dunkirk; destroyers Malcolm and Sabre damaged (night June 2-3).

Air War: Further German raids on Lyons and Rhone Valley region (97 civilian casualties, June 1 and 2).
Single Gladiator biplane, flown by Pilot Officer Jacobsen of 263 Squadron RAF, shoots down 6 German bombers (four He111, two Ju88) near Narvik (Jacobsen killed June 8).

Diplomacy: Anti-British crowds, demanding return of Gibraltar, mark arrival in Madrid of Sir Samuel Hoare, new British Ambassador to Spain.