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KILROY WAS THERE
WWII
Who Was That Little Guy
Always Watching the GIs?
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June 2012 • Volume Eight • Number One
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F E A T U R E S
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MIDWAY TO VICTORY
Just four months after Pearl Harbor, American forces in the Coral Sea halted Japan’s
brief charge toward victory. Then they cut its heart out at Midway.
By Brian John Murphy
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ZOOT!
It wasn’t easy for a poor boy to get out of the ghetto. But he could escape for
the night by putting on a zoot suit and dancing the jitterbug.
By John E. Stanchak
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KILROY WAS THERE
GIs were all over the world in the early 1940s. And wherever they went,
a mysterious little cartoon character was watching them from behind a wall.
By Chuck Lyons
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SHERLOCK HOLMES STALKS THE NAZIS
Hollywood resurrected the world’s greatest detective as a 20th-century spy
to help defeat the world’s greatest villain.
By David Norris
2012 ANNUAL WWII AIR SHOWS
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d e p a r t m e n t s
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KILROY
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V-MAIL
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HOME FRONT: Weather Censorship
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PINUP: Marguerite Chapman
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THE FUNNIES: The Young Allies
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I WAS THERE: A Girl’s Dream Takes Flight
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LANDINGS: FDR’s
Other
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WAR STORIES
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FLASHBACK
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BOOKS AND MEDIA
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THEATER OF WAR:
The Americanization of Emily
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78 RPM: Vaughn Monroe
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WWII EVENTS
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GIs: Up from the Foxhole
COVER SHOT:
It took only 10 days after the humiliation at Pearl Harbor for heads to roll. One of the positions opened up was commander
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SAKID
I
WAS FOREVER DOODLING
all over my notebooks and the textbook covers my
mother fashioned for me from brown paper bags. I imagined that my furious scribbling
was fooling Sister Clemention into believing I really was taking the notes I was supposed
to be taking. But my grade-school teachers were probably just quietly content that I was
preoccupied with something preferable to my other favorite class-time diversions: whis-
pering to friends in the back of the room and interrupting the distribution of knowledge
with wisecracks (which seemed exceptionally witty at the time).
Back in my earliest days, I thought I might grow up to be an artist (if I didn’t make it
through the police academy or firefighter training). My mother seemed agreeable about
that. When I got older, I figured out that encouraging my dreams was her job. Looking
today at the inkings on the old notebooks that the thoughtful mother of this would-be
budding master preserved for posterity, I can see that no one besides a woman steadfast-
ly devoted to her maternal duty would have offered more than than a polite “Oh, that’s
nice.”
What I mostly drew was faces, cartoonish faces with big eyes and comical noses. I con-
tinued sketching down into the shoulders and collarbone area. But I usually avoided any
serious attempt at bodies; early on I gave up on their contorted poses, tricky propor-
tions, and countless other complications. To bring this into the context of
America in
WWII
magazine, what I’m saying is that I could draw Kilroy. With a half a minute and
an operable pen, I could bring to life that strange little cartoon guy with the long nose
who kept a watchful eye on GIs all over the world, as Chuck Lyons writes in the article
“Kilroy Was There” in this issue.
I know, I know—you can draw Kilroy, too. The ability to master drawing several curves,
a couple of dots, and one straight line isn’t much of a claim to fame. And it wouldn’t
seem to give me much in common with the GI of World War II. But in fact it does.
All
of us can draw Kilroy. That’s the point. Kilroy wasn’t just drawn by the GI. He
was
the
GI. As our art director, Jeff King, pointed out during the creation of this issue, Kilroy is
Everyman. We are him, and he is us.
I realize I’m stretching beyond my reach to find something in common with those GIs.
Back when I was of age to join the military, I couldn’t imagine I could handle the disci-
pline, and I wasn’t wise enough to realize I might have benefitted from it being forced on
me. There was no draft to compel me into service; though I was required to register, no
conscription was required to overpower Grenada and Panama. So, it looks like I’ll have
to settle for my one bona fide tie to the GIs: putting out a magazine that tells their story
to the world. But please do check out that Kilroy of mine below my signature!
Carl Zebrowski
Editor,
America in WWII
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