The following year's 24 Hours of Le Mans was originally planned for June 1940, but due to the invasion of France in May the race was called off.
It operated all the French naval aircraft, seaplanes and flying boats, that escaped from German-occupied France after the Battle of France, together with naval aircraft from the French colonies that declared allegiance to de Gaulle's Free French Forces, and aircraft donated by the British and Americans.
In Paris during the World War II invasion of France by Nazi Germany, Jewish refugee S. L. Jacobowsky (Danny Kaye) seeks to leave the country before it falls.
Operation Tiger (1940), the successful German assault on the French Fortified Sector of the Sarre during the Battle of France
He eventually rose to the rank of Lieutenant-colonel and led the 97th Reconnaissance Group of the Infantry Division into combat during the Battle of France.
The speed of the French defeat in June 1940 may have come as a shock, but the advent of another war with Germany and of resulting restrictions on civilian fuel availability had been widely foreseen.
The first formation of the XLVII Corps was on June 20, 1940, during the Campaign in France.
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It saw service in the Battle of France and spent the rest of the war on the Eastern Front, participating in Operation Barbarossa, the Siege of Sevastopol, the Siege of Leningrad and helped to put down the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.
Detachments of No. 607 Squadron RAF with Gloster Gladiator biplanes were based here along with No. 151 Squadron RAF Hawker Hurricanes before they were withdrawn to English bases in June 1940 during the Battle of France.
Lambert was still working out of his premises near Sainte-Menehould in 1940 at the time of the German invasion undertaking specialist jobs in connection with the auto-business and also components for saw-mills.
Construction of the two prototypes was well progressed when Germany invaded France on 10 May 1940, and in late May it was decided to evacuate the near complete prototypes from Villacoublay near Paris, with the first prototype being sent to Bône in Algeria and the second to the Breguet factory at Anglet, near Bayonne in the far south-west of France.
He was shot down flying a Bristol Blenheim light bomber of No. 40 Squadron RAF during an attack at St-Valery on 6 June 1940 as part of the Battle of France.
During the Battle of France, the plan seems to have been to deploy RAF squadrons of Bristol Blenheim light bombers there, but it is not clear how intensively the airfield was used.
After the fall of France, he appears to have enrolled in Nazi Germany to work in the Messerschmitt aircraft manufacturing plant, as he left for Germany before the establishment of the STO system, by which French workers were compelled to work in German plants.
Gustav Altmann was leader of Assault Group Steel (Sturmgruppe Stahl) of the Fallschirmjäger-Sturm-Abteilung "Koch" during the opening phase of the Battle of France and the attack on Fort Eben-Emael.
He also took part in the Western Campaign in June 1940 and was involved in fighting at Vlissingen in the Netherlands, Cassel, the Marne and in Orléans in France where he was wounded for the first time and awarded the Wound Badge.
On 5 June 1940, during the Battle of France, he took over command of the French Second Army from Charles Huntziger, who had transferred to command the Fourth Army Group and who signed the Armistice with Germany on 22 June.
After the 1940 defeat of France, he immediately organized support for political prisoners, and accepted the post of secretary of Asnières's section of the Syndicat national des instituteurs trade-union (which was a member of the Fédération de l'éducation nationale).
In May 1940, as France was invaded by Nazi Germany, Gibson was posted to No. 501 (City of Bristol) Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, and his squadron was dispatched from RAF Tangmere across the English Channel to Bétheniville.
During the Battle of France in the fighting near Armentières on the 29 May 1940, Prinz, especially distinguished himself when he and his platoon forced a breakthrough of the English positions and established a link-up with the formations located in Bailleul.
Older ships were occasionally beached to provide a coastal defence platform, and during the Battle of France the British discovered effective anti-tank artillery in the form of the four-inch (102 mm) guns from destroyers tied up at the quays of Boulogne.
No. 52 Commando was formed in the Middle East at Geneifa in August 1940, from volunteers from units serving in the Middle East and a small number of veterans from the Spanish Civil War who had escaped to Palestine after the French defeat in 1940.
He continued his service into the Second World War, but was captured early in the war, on 28 May 1940, during the Battle of France and spent most of the war in German prisoner of war camps.
Following the outbreak of war in 1938, aged 18 or 19, de la Vigne was called up to the Wehrmacht and joined the Fallschirmjäger, however was captured in May 1940 and held captive in Rotterdam until the end of the Battle of France.
Maurice Gamelin (1872–1958), French general in command of the French forces at the start of World War II and during the Battle of France
After being commissioned and deployed, all of the Type IXB submarines built prior to the fall of France were stationed in the German port city of Wilhelmshaven while those who were commissioned following the capture of numerous French ports during the Battle of France were stationed in Lorient.
He succeeded to the title before his first birthday, when his father died in action at Dunkirk during the Battle of France, 1940.
René Olry CLH (1880–1944), French general and commander of the Army of the Alps during the Battle of France of World War II