He continued to put his checkmark on each job he inspected, but added KILROY WAS HERE in king-sized letters next to the check, and eventually added the sketch of the chap with the long nose ...

The rudimentary doodle, which featured a balding head peering over a wall along with the tag "Kilroy Was Here," popped up in unexpected places across all of the theaters of war visited by American ...

The drawing — often accompanied by the phrase “Kilroy Was Here” — showed up in unusual places, as if Kilroy himself had scrawled it before anyone else showed up. He was remixed with funny ...

Reader Alec wrote in to say, “I’d like to know the origin of Kilroy was here, with the man looking over a fence. I saw this all over Germany as an Army dependent in 1954. Does it originate in ...

Kilroy Was Here.' Long before André the Giant Had a Posse, Kilroy was pretty much the first graffiti fad, spread throughout the globe by U.S. troops in World War II. It was so ubiquitous that one ...

Where ever he went, he always left his mark. “Kilroy was here!” could be found everywhere. Just who was Kilroy? Well, in 1946, the American Transit Association sponsored a radio program ...