"Kilroy was here" . . . Kilroy passed through, ...

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- auf der ganzen Welt in Graffitis wie "Kilroy was here", "Kilroy slept here", "Kilroy passed through" und "You’re in the footsteps of Kilroy"

Eine der vielen unbestaetigten Herkunftsdeutungen dieses Namens ist diese:
James J. Kilroy war beim Bethlehem Steel Company's Quincy Shipyard beschaeftigt. Seine Aufgabe war es, Panzer und anderes militaerisches Geraet zu inspizieren, bevor sie in den Pazifik oder nach Europa verschifft wurde. 

Um seinen Vorgesetzten gewissermassen zu beweisen, dass er seiner Aufgabe auch nachkam, fing er irgendwann an, mit gelber Kreide ueberall "Kilroy was here" draufzukritzeln. 
Tja, und so sind diese Geraetschaften dann eben in alle Windrichtungen geschickt wurden, wo sich die entsprechenden GI's dann irgendwann den Spass machten, jenen ominoesen Kilroy zum Kult zu erheben und ihn auf diese Weise sozusagen zu ihrem Maskottchen/Erkennungszeichen/fiktiven Begleiter/wasauchimmer zu machen.
Ob das wirklich stimmt, vermag ich nicht zu bestaetigen. Aber gerade dieses Ungewisse macht natuerlich den Kult aus.

i believe
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One theory identifies James J. Kilroy (1902–1962)
an American shipyard inspector, as the man behind the signature. During World War II he worked at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, where he claimed to have used the phrase to mark rivets he had checked.

 The builders, whose rivets J. J. Kilroy was counting, were paid depending on the number of rivets they put in. A riveter would make a chalk mark at the end of his or her shift to show where they had left off and the next riveter had started. Unscrupulous riveters discovered that, if they started work before the inspector arrived, they could receive extra pay by erasing the previous worker's chalk mark and chalking a mark farther back on the same seam, giving themselves credit for some of the previous riveter's work.
 J.J. Kilroy stopped this practice by writing "Kilroy was here" at the site of each chalk mark.

 At the time, ships were being sent out before they had been painted, so when sealed areas were opened for maintenance, soldiers found an unexplained name scrawled. Thousands of servicemen may have potentially seen his slogan on the outgoing ships and Kilroy's omnipresence and inscrutability sparked the legend. Afterwards, servicemen could have begun placing the slogan on different places and especially in new captured areas or landings. At some later point, the graffito (Chad) and slogan (Kilroy was here) must have merge.
   

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