Before the war's end, "Kilroy" had been here, there, and everywhere on the ... As a joke, U.S. servicemen began placing the graffiti wherever they landed, claiming it was already there when ...

The iconic phrase, “Kilroy was here”, usually accompanied by a cartoon drawing of a bald man with fingers peeking over the horizon, has become forever associated with American GIs in World War ...

The rudimentary doodle, which featured a balding head peering over a wall along with the tag "Kilroy Was Here," popped up in ... competitions to inscribe the graffiti in obscure locations kept ...

“Kilroy was here.” This simple yet enigmatic phrase ... Kilroy’s significance goes beyond the graffiti itself. It represents the resilience, humor, and determination of the American soldiers ...

Graffiti has come a long way over the years ... "Foo was here" is the Australian answer to Kilroy was here. Or rather, Kilroy was the answer to Foo. Most sources show that Foo predated Kilroy ...

The iconic piece of graffiti that was known in America as ... The drawing — often accompanied by the phrase “Kilroy Was Here” — showed up in unusual places, as if Kilroy himself had ...

The slogan showed up in graffiti, and became a national joke ... He took some chalk and wrote in large letters “Kilroy was here.” From then on, each time he checked the rivets he scribbled ...

Ancient cave art, like the Lascaux cave paintings in France, shares remarkable similarities with modern-day graffiti. Thousands of years later, during World War II, it became popular for soldiers to ...

Carved into two hidden alcoves at D.C.’s World War II Memorial is an inscription that reads: “Kilroy was here.” That phrase, accompanied by a cartoon doodle of a bald man with a long nose ...

"Kilroy Was Here," appeared almost everywhere American soldiers went. In 2003, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History acquired examples of G.I. graffiti with a particular resonance.