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A depiction of Kilroy on a piece of the Berlin Wall in the Newseum in Washington, D.C.. The phrase may have originated through United States servicemen who would draw the picture and the text "Kilroy was here" on the walls and other places where they were stationed, encamped, or visited.
In 2002, Hyperion published Kilroy Was Here: The Best American Humor from World War II by Charles Osgood. Publishers Weekly reviewed: Originating as a chalked inspection notice in a Quincy, Mass., shipyard, the sketch of bald-headed Kilroy launched a thousand ships and eventually became the most familiar globe-trotting graffiti of World War II...
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Kilroy Was Here is the eleventh studio album by the American rock band Styx, released on February 22, 1983. [8] A concept album and rock opera about a world where rock music is outlawed, it is named after a famous World War II graffiti tag, "Kilroy was here."
Gene Kilroy first met Muhammad Ali in Rome at the 1960 Olympic Games. Ali was a light heavyweight medal hopeful for the U.S. known at the time as Cassius Marcellus Clay. Kilroy was in the Army.
James J. Kilroy (September 26, 1902 – November 24, 1962) was a worker at the Fore River Shipyard who is believed to have been the origin of the "Kilroy was here" expression. Biography [ edit ]
The park, featuring a manmade lake, opened for public swimming on the Fourth of July in 1966. It was named for Kilroy, the first soldier from the township who was killed in the Vietnam War, in May ...
This is the first in a three-part series about Marx Toys and the people who made them. Toys under the tree on Christmas morning weren't always made at the North Pole.