
Kilroy was here
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Oct 29, 2026
The Art of War, & The Art of Saving History: Central Coast Veterans Museum | ARTober | Up+Adam
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14:48Bart TophamGUEST
It's hard to say, to describe, but it was like a long-nosed individual peeking over a wall.
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14:55Bart TophamGUEST
And the sign underneath it said, Kilroy was here.
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14:59Bart TophamGUEST
Well, that caught on with the GIs in World War II.
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15:02Bart TophamGUEST
And they would make those drawings.
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19:46TomHOST
Let's make a connection between the two"? Or is this directly where they got the idea, and they just built a Doctor Who idea into something in the DLC? I think it's more likely the second, but what do you think? [upbeat music] Now, there's still a little bit more graffiti to talk about.
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20:09TomHOST
Do you guys know who Kilroy is? "Kilroy was here." Have you seen this anywhere in the DLC? Maybe the think tank or the sink where you have this funny little character, a little bald character with a nose and fingers peeking over a wall, and it says, "Kilroy was here." That is a reference to World War II graffiti art that looks basically identical to what you see there.
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20:34TomHOST
And I dug into this a little bit.
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20:36TomHOST
It turns out that it's very hard to know exactly when this became a thing during World War II.
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20:50TomHOST
The American soldiers had kind of their version of this.
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20:53TomHOST
The British soldiers had a slightly different version of this, and it was something that they would put on walls or even on weapons and things.
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21:00TomHOST
And it got to the point where when the Germans confiscated some of the American supplies that they found, they found these little drawings kind of etched on things, and they thought Kilroy may be a spy who was labeling things that he accomplished out in the world.
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21:18TomHOST
And so they kept an eye out for a spy who went by the code name Kilroy or something like that.