May 1940

the éphéméride | all on May and 1940.

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  • May 1st:

    • Beginning of the evacuation of the Task force Franco-British with Namsos. The effort concentrates then on Narvik where the French managed to take foot.

  • May 5th:

    • the Norwegian government in exile settles with London.

  • May 8th:

    • the Polish of the autonomous Brigade of the hunters of Podhale unload on the Norwegian island of Hinnoy and prepare to attack Narvik.

  • May 10th:
    • Offensive allemande in the West against the Netherlands, the Belgium, the Luxembourg and the France. As of the first day of combat, the armies Belgian and Dutch are outclassed.
    • In Belgium: arrest, Internment and Deportation of the " suspects étrangers" , that is to say 7500 Germans and Autrichiens for the majority of the refugees Juifs. They are off-set towards the camps of midday of the France. arrests of May 10th, 1940
    • Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister, succeeding Arthur Neville Chamberlain, resigner. He promises to the British, in a speech “of the sorrow, blood, sweat and tears” (" Blood, sweat and tears"), remained famous.
    • Swiss General mobilization in .

  • May 13rd:

    • the Dutch government in exile settles with London.
    • Franco-British Unloading with Narvik (May 13rd - June 7th). The Foreign legion takes foot on the heights of Bjerkvik.
    • Bored of Sedan of the German armor-plated troops of the general Guderian.
    • Collapse of the Belgian face.
    • First coasting flight of a helicopter, the Sikorsky VS-300.

  • May 14th:

    • the French face is inserted with Sedan;
    • the creation of the local volunteers of defense (the Home Guard ) is announced by Anthony Eden.

  • May 15th:

    • Capitulation of the army Dutchwoman;
    • Annexation of Eupen by the Germany;
    • the British refuse to make assemble to the face their best Avions of hunting, the Spitfire. For the British , France is already lost, and one prepares already at the next stage of the war, the Bataille of England.
    • First setting on sale of the Low of Nylon, registered trademark by “Dupont de Nemours”. 72.000 pairs are sold in eight hours with New York.

  • May 18th:

    • the general Władysław Sikorski places the first pomegranate Division Polish at the disposal of the French Army.
    • the marshal Philippe Pétain becomes Vice-président of the Council.

  • May 21st:

    • the towns of Arras and Amiens are taken. The Germans reach the Manche; the French Army is cut into two.

  • May 26th:

    • Beginning of the Operation Dynamo, allied evacuation of Dunkirk.

  • May 28th:

    • Capitulation of the King of the Belgians, Léopold III, without consulting its Allied.
    • the British government decides to accelerate the installation of the defense of London.
    • Of the Norwegian and Polish troops pushes back the Germans to the Swedish border.

  • May 29th:

    • the Alliés take again Narvik with the Germans and destroy the harbor installations.

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