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KILROY WAS THERE

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Who Was That Little Guy

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AMERICA IN

WWII

June 2012 • Volume Eight • Number One

F E A T U R E S

28 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

40 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

46 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

52 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 A Special Events Section A Pages 19–21

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2 KILROY 4 V-MAIL 6 HOME FRONT: Weather Censorship 7 PINUP: Marguerite Chapman

8 THE FUNNIES: The Young Allies 10 I WAS THERE: A Girl’s Dream Takes Flight 22 LANDINGS: FDR’s Other White House

24 WAR STORIES 25 FLASHBACK 58 BOOKS AND MEDIA 60 THEATER OF WAR: The Americanization of Emily

62 78 RPM: Vaughn Monroe 63 WWII EVENTS 64 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

of the Pacific Fleet, and the navy chose Chester Nimitz to fill it. Just a few months later Nimitz halted Japan’s takeover of the South Pacific

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A 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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