Home Fronts
Britain: 120,000 school-children to be evacuated from London.
Germany: Hitler gives an interview to American journalist Carl von Wiegand: he had no desire to smash British Empire but would ‘destroy those who are destroying that Empire’. US aid to Britain would not affect the outcome of the war.
France
Paris declared a ‘open city’; all French forces withdraw south of the capital. Oil stores in suburbs set on fire. Germans reach northern outskirts in evening. Germans capture Le Havre.
Politics
Final meeting of Allied Supreme War Council: Reynaud tells Churchill that France must make separate peace; Churchill suggests ‘last ditch’ appeal to Roosevelt.
Sea War
Carrier Ark Royal launches 15 Skua dive-bombers (8 lost) to attack battlecruiser Scharnhorst at Trondheim; one direct hit (unexploded bomb). French cruisers and destroyers, with air cover, bombard Genoa area in Italy (night June 13-14). Armed merchant cruiser Scotstoun (17,000 t) sunk by U-boat U-25 off Ireland. German disguised raider Orion lays mines off Auckland, New Zealand.
China
Japanese bombers make devastating fire raid on city of Chungking.
Neutrals
Spain: Franco prepares for closer collaboration with Germany and Italy by announcing new policy of ‘non-belligerency’.
Air War
Italian bombers attack Toulon naval base, South France.
