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This is a photograph of Marilyn Monroe, then Mrs James Dougherty, June 26, 1945, working in the Radioplane Munitions Factory, a plant at the Van Nuys Airport in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
The factory was owned, and the radioplane invented, by Reginald Denny, movie actor (he appeared in Anna Karenina (1935) and Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) among others) and Royal Flying Corps veteran.
This photograph of Monroe, one of a series by Army photographer David Conover, which led to her first screen test, shows her working at the Radioplane factory, assembling an OQ-2 Radioplane, “the first mass-produced UAV or drone in the United States.”
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