the coast of Brittany between German and Allied destroyer flotillas. The result was an Allied victory as the Germans lost 2 destroyers. The U.S. Fifth Army in Italy captured Tarquinia and Viterbo. German destroyers Z32 and ZH1 engaged Allied warships off the Île de Batz. Z32 ran aground and was wrecked while ZH1 was torpedoed and sunk. Japanese destroyer Matsukaze was sunk northeast of Chichijima by the American submarine Swordfish. Japanese destroyer Tanikaze was torpedoed and sunk in the Sibutu Passage by the USS Harder. June 10, 1944 (Saturday) The Red Army began the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive with the objective of knocking Finland out of the war. A Waffen-SS company carried out the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre in France, killing 642 residents of the village of Oradour-sur-Glane. Waffen-SS forces in Greece carried out the Distomo massacre, killing a total of 214 residents of the village of Distomo in retaliation for a partisan attack upon the unit. German submarine U-821 was depth charged and sunk in the Bay of Biscay by British aircraft. Pitcher Joe Nuxhall became the youngest player to ever appear in a modern major league baseball game when he made his debut for the Cincinnati Reds at the age of 15 years, 10 months and 11 days. Although Nuxhall had a difficult outing, giving up five runs to the St. Louis Cardinals in two-thirds of an inning, he went on to have a good big-league career as a two-time All-Star with a lifetime record of 135–117. "I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)" by Harry James and His Orchestra hit #1 on the Billboard singles charts. June 11, 1944 (Sunday) In Normandy, the First United States Army captured Carentan and Lison. The British frigate HMS Halsted was torpedoed and rendered a constructive total loss off Normandy by German E-boats. The American battleship USS Missouri was commissioned. Died: Vojtěch Preissig, 70, Czech typographer, illustrator and designer (died in Dachau concentration camp) June 12, 1944 (Monday) U.S. Task Force 58 attacked Japanese facilities and shipping in preparation for the landings on Saipan, sinking one torpedo boat and twelve merchant ships of Japanese convoy CD-4. U.S. and British forces in Normandy linked up near Carentan, forming a solid battlefront with 326,000 men and 54,000 vehicles. German submarine U-490 was depth charged and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by American warships. President Roosevelt gave his 30th and final fireside chat, on the subject