The Second Armistice at Compiègne was signed at 6 50
pm on 22 June 1940 near Compiègne. Adolf
Hitler deliberately chose Compiègne Forest as the
site to sign the armistice due to its symbolic role as the
site of the 1918 Armistice with Germany that signaled the
end of World War I with a German defeat.
Germans pushed south of Lower Loire in direction of Laroche,
Suryon and Poitiers. St Malo and Lorient occupied.
Mass raids made the British Royal Air Force (RAF) during the
night of
21-22
June 1940, on
Krupps
works at Essen, and on aircraft factories at Bremen, Kassel,
Göttingen, etc.
The British Admiralty announced that a large Italian submarine
had surrendered after being attack by the trawler HMS Moonshine
in the Gulf of Aden. Enemy supply ship sunk in North sea by
aircraft of coastal command.
Italian aircraft raided Jibuti, but lost to bombers. Another
bomber and crew captured near Zeilah, British Somaliland.
Alexander suffered first bombing raid.
Go To: 23rd
June
Articles:
The Armistice
German And Italian Terms
The Second Great War.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
The War Illustrated.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
2194 Days Of War.
ISBN-10: 086136614X
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