[Homer_J_Simpson]

Nazi Drive Intense – 2-3
Announcers Identified To Prevent a Radio Hoax – 3
Germany Bans Smoking By Girls at Universities – 3
Reich Air Force Abandons Dive Bombing for Present – 3
London Embassy Bids Americans Go Home – 3
The International Situation – 4
For Gun ‘Trade-Ins’ – 5-6
Government Cool to ‘Wealth Draft’ – 6
Conscription Idea Wins Wide Backing – 6
The Day in Washington – 6
Drive Progresses, Germany Reports – 7
Chief of Information Named in Australia – 7
Yugoslavia Releases 120,000 Reservists – 7
Nazi Planes Raid 12 British Counties – 8
Mrs. De Booy Tells of Escaping Hague – 10
Says Aiding Allies is Insurance for Us – 10
The Struggle for a Ridge – 11
Texts of the Day’s War Communiques - 12

[C19fan]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/jun40/f08jun40.htm

HMS Glorious sunk

Saturday, June 8, 1940 www.onwar.com

In the Norwegian Sea... The German battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau operate off the Norwegian coast. Their aim is to attack the various convoys carrying the evacuation from Norway to Britain. They sink three empty ships and then find the aircraft carrier Glorious and two destroyers. Despite a gallant defense by the destroyers there is no time for Glorious to escape or launch her aircraft, and although Scharnhorst is damaged all three British ships are sunk. The British Admiralty has been careless in providing too few escorts for these waters, and it is by no means inconceivable that Scharnhorst and Gneisenau might have achieved a still greater victory by intercepting the simultaneous troop convoys. Admiral Marschall, in command of the German operation, decides to return to base because of the damage to Scharnhorst.

[henkster]

The Times makes it appear the “Weygand Line” is still holding, but re-reading Rommel’s “The Rommel Papers” and von Manstein’s “Lost Victories” last night, by this morning the battle is already decided. The French did fight hard, and they managed to hold up Kleist’s panzer group. But the problem with the French defense was that it was brittle and inelastic. The mobile reserves necessary to seal off and eliminate German penetrations had all been lost in Belgium. For all of the Times’ touting of the “Weygand tactics” of stopping the German armor, his defense was really the same defense that would have been put up in 1918.

Once the Germans broke into the clear, which by now they have accomplished in several places, it’s all a matter of mopping up on the Somme and Aisne, and chasing off after the remnants of the French army.

von Manstein, who commanded German 38th Corps (three infantry divisions and later one cavalry division) referred to this campaign as “the assault march to the Loire.”

[Ingtar]

I have to laugh a bit at how good they make the French resistance sound. On the very next day, the Germans took Rouen, well south of the black number 1 on the map.