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| Aboard USS Ticonderoga, Navy Fighting-Bombing Squadron 87 takes possession of the 10,000th F6F Hellcat to be produced, 23 May 1945 at Ulithi. | Captain George C. Montgomery shaking hands with men under his command aboard USS Anzio, 23 May 1945 |
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| Dönitz, Jodl, and Speer being arrested by British troops, 23 May 1945 | Heinrich Himmler dead at Lüneburg, Germany, 23 May 1945 |
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| Japanese Type 1 Kaitens on the deck of mother-sub I-361 at the Hikari Naval Base, 23 May 1945. | The body of Heinrich Himmler lying on the floor at British 2nd Army HQ after his suicide on 23 May 1945 |
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