48 Years Ago Today - Mullinnix Crew Looses Marilyn Monroe
Excerpt from “The Last Gun Ship - History of USS Mullinnix DD-944” - A Historical Novel By Frank A. Wood
The crew didn’t know, but on 5 August, they’d lost one of their all-time favorite movie stars, pinup girls, and Playboy cover girl. Screen icon Marilyn Monroe had been found dead in bed at her Los Angeles home. The 36-year-old actress' body was discovered in the early hours of the morning by two doctors who were called to her Brentwood home by a concerned housekeeper. The doctors were forced to break into Miss Monroe's bedroom after being unable to open the door. She was found lying naked in her bed with an empty bottle of Nembutal sleeping pills by her side. The local coroner, who visited the scene later, said the circumstances of Miss Monroe's death indicated a "possible suicide".
Her 1954 marriage to baseball star Joe DiMaggio lasted just nine months and on 29 June 1956 the star married playwright Arthur Miller. But that marriage ended in 1961. Miss Monroe's romantic life has long been the subject of speculation and she has been linked with President Kennedy. Millions of fans around the world would be deeply shocked by the star's premature and tragic death.
An occasional first issue of Playboy would periodically appear somewhere on the ship – only briefly, only on rare occasions, but there existed ‘more than one copy’ stowed away in small safe cervices that only their owner knew where. Her likeness would appear on five additional Playboy covers in the coming years.
Just because the crew was in daily exercises didn’t mean the ship’s equipment couldn’t, nor wouldn’t break down. At 1310 on 9 August, the ship had to shift steering compass repeaters to the MK23 master gyrocompass due to erratic operations if the MK19 Gyrocompass.
To be continued...
Cheers,
Woody
The crew didn’t know, but on 5 August, they’d lost one of their all-time favorite movie stars, pinup girls, and Playboy cover girl. Screen icon Marilyn Monroe had been found dead in bed at her Los Angeles home. The 36-year-old actress' body was discovered in the early hours of the morning by two doctors who were called to her Brentwood home by a concerned housekeeper. The doctors were forced to break into Miss Monroe's bedroom after being unable to open the door. She was found lying naked in her bed with an empty bottle of Nembutal sleeping pills by her side. The local coroner, who visited the scene later, said the circumstances of Miss Monroe's death indicated a "possible suicide".
Her 1954 marriage to baseball star Joe DiMaggio lasted just nine months and on 29 June 1956 the star married playwright Arthur Miller. But that marriage ended in 1961. Miss Monroe's romantic life has long been the subject of speculation and she has been linked with President Kennedy. Millions of fans around the world would be deeply shocked by the star's premature and tragic death.
An occasional first issue of Playboy would periodically appear somewhere on the ship – only briefly, only on rare occasions, but there existed ‘more than one copy’ stowed away in small safe cervices that only their owner knew where. Her likeness would appear on five additional Playboy covers in the coming years.
Just because the crew was in daily exercises didn’t mean the ship’s equipment couldn’t, nor wouldn’t break down. At 1310 on 9 August, the ship had to shift steering compass repeaters to the MK23 master gyrocompass due to erratic operations if the MK19 Gyrocompass.
To be continued...
Cheers,
Woody
posted by Frank A. Wood at 14:52
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