Western Front
Rommel occupies the heights around Arras.
9:00 am: Hans Guderian's 1st Armored Division takes Amiens.
7:00 pm: The German 2nd Armored Division occupies Abbeville.
8:00 pm: One of Guderian's battalions reaches the Channel at Noyelles. The German tanks have opened a breach in the Allied line, some 20 miles wide from east to west. North of this gap is the French 1st Army, the nine divisions of the British Expeditionary Force, and the Belgian army, yo the south, from west to east, four French armies, the 10th, 7th, 6th and 2nd.
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