Kilroy sightings

World War II

The war years in which Kilroy spread with American servicemen across shipyards, troopships, vehicles, bases, and both major theaters of war.

Wartime Kilroy

Follow Kilroy through the Atlantic and Pacific theaters and examine Robert Capa’s location-specific account from Bastogne.

Explore Kilroy-like figures on Virginia State Parks plans from the years immediately before and during the war.

Examine the famous 1945 Stalin story, carefully preserved as legend rather than documented fact.

Visit the Quincy, Massachusetts shipyard at the center of the James J. Kilroy origin account.

Follow the message aboard wartime ships as servicemen carried Kilroy across the oceans.

Explore the ordinary wartime surfaces that made Kilroy seem capable of appearing almost anywhere.

See Kilroy move from walls and ships onto the shells of wartime Air Force missiles.

Follow the phrase as American servicemen carried it through both major theaters of war.

Trace the symbolic endpoints of Kilroy’s wartime journey.

Meet the fictional super-GI who had somehow arrived everywhere before everyone else.