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In 1944, 18-year-old Norma Jeane Baker was a recently-married factory worker aiding the war effort at an aviation facility. When an Air Force photographer happened to spot her on the job, he took her picture and helped put her on the path to pin-up modeling and then movie stardom under a new name: Marilyn Monroe.
In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar disappeared during a family trip. Months later, a boy was found living with another family in Mississippi. Authorities took him and returned him to the Dunbars—but nearly a century later, DNA revealed he wasn’t Bobby at all.
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Ira Hayes — A Native American marine photographed raising the American flag over Iwo Jima in 1945, one of the most iconic images in history. Despite national fame, Hayes suffered from untreated PTSD, and was arrested 52 times for public intoxication. He froze to death in the Arizona desert in 1955