Bob Fields

Kilroy Was Here (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Long before the Internet made viral marketing a cinch, one long-nosed little character named Kilroy made his way around the world the old-fashioned way, becoming a legend among the millions of military men and women who served during World War II.
The rudimentary doodle, which featured a balding head peering over a wall along with the tag "Kilroy Was Here," popped up in unexpected places across all of the theaters of war visited by American troops.
While competitions to inscribe the graffiti in obscure locations kept the battle-weary soldiers busy and its appearances kept them inspired, the mysterious Kilroy character had Japanese intelligence officers and even Hitler himself worried over the seemingly ubiquitous guy.
Reportedly spurred by an American dockworker, the "Kilroy Was Here" fad was an iconic part of World War II and 1940s lore. (Source: Live Science)
It didn't stop with world war two GI's. The Korean War and Viet Nam war saw Kilroy pop up in the most unlikely places. And now he appears in Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan. He just won't go away.
On the home front, kids, especially those in high school or college, used Kilroy to harass or confuse teachers or supervisors,

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bob Fields
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781310968518
• Artikelnr.: 70544860

Autorenporträt

Bob Fields possesses an exceptional talent for translating his broadly based life experiences to the written page. A veteran of two wars (three if you count Wall Street), his hardscrabble early life taught him real life lessons; the application of which propelled his success in a military career and numerous business ventures.
After his retirement from business in 1999, he began a career as a Free Lance Writer. His work has been published in regional magazines and company oriented newsletters related to the environment. He has published two print books describing life as a boy in the 1940s, and a highly acclaimed novel; "Rendezvous with Destiny" a well-paced story about discrimination, love, murder, revenge, redemption, and the ultimate understanding between people with disparate backgrounds in small town America.
Bob is currently working on several short stories soon to be published as an anthology about Maine as it once was.
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