As the ‘Pocket Venus’ she got fan mail from the troops in Tobruk – ‘You make us forget Libya’ – and modelled with the future Marilyn Monroe
As the ‘Pocket Venus’ she got fan mail from the troops in Tobruk – ‘You make us forget Libya’ – and modelled with the future Marilyn Monroe
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