Radioplane Company

In 1943, Doherty joined the Merchant Navy, so the couple relocated to Catalina Island.

A year later, he got shipped to the Pacific, so Marilyn went to the Van Nuys again and moved in with her in-laws, and then soon after that, she found her first job with a company called Radioplane, which manufactured drones that were used for gunnery targets.

And who could have foreseen that it would be here, and of all places, that Marilyn Monroe would emerge as a star?

Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.