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 9th:

• the conscription with the the United Kingdom is prolonged until the 36 years age.

• 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 11th:

• the Luxembourg is occupied.

• May 12th:

• the German reach the Meuse.

• 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 20th:

• the general Maxime Weygand named commander-in-chief of the French Armies.

• 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.

• May 31st:

• the Task force in Norway receives the order to evacuate.