In a fit of pique one day, as he emerged from the hatch of a tank he'd just inspected, he scrawled in yellow crayon on its top — where testers could easily see it — "Kilroy was here." ...

I angrily marked with yellow crayon on the tank top, where the tester could see it, 'Kilroy was here.' The following day, a test gang leader approached me with a grin on his face and said ...

Japanese troops were so mystified by a "Kilroy Was Here" painted on a bombed out tank on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal that they reported the find to their senior intelligence officers ...

25 most expensive South Shore homes recently sold - $3.5 million antique in Duxbury No. 1 World War II soldiers and sailors in Europe scrawled Kilroy Was Here on walls, tanks, ships and anything ...

U.S. troops in Europe scrawled "Kilroy Was Here" on walls, tanks, ships and anything that would stand still to show that they had been there first. At some point, the cartoon of a long-nosed man ...

It's hard for this generation of Americans to appreciate how important this Sherman tank was in winning World War II. And here's another important fact: key components of the tank were made right ...