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193 - Kilroy was Here! The fall of Tunis - WW2 - May 7, 1943

Tunis falls to the Allies, but the Axis are still fighting back from their little corner of Tunisia. There is more of the seemingly endless fighting in the Kuban in the Caucasus, and the Chinese Theater comes to life with a new Japanese offensive. Join us on Patreon: https://bit.ly/WW2_193_DE Or join the TimeGhost Army directly at: https://timeghost.tv/signup/ Check out our TimeGhost History YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/timeghost Between 2 Wars: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrG5J-K5AYAU1R-HeWSfY2D1jy_sEssNG Follow WW2 Day by Day on Instagram: @ww2_day_by_day Follow TimeGhost History on Instagram: @timeghosthistory Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimeGhostHistory/ Hosted by: Indy Neidell Director: Astrid Deinhard Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson Creative Producer: Marek Kamiński Community Management: Ian Sowden Written by: Indy Neidell Research by: Indy Neidell Map animations by: Daniel Weiss Map research by: Sietse Kenter Edited by: Miki Cackowski Artwork and color grading by: Mikołaj Uchman Sound design by: Marek Kamiński Colorizations by: Mikołaj Uchman Source literature list: http://bit.ly/WW2sources Archive footage: Screenocean/Reuters - https://www.screenocean.com Image sources: IWM COI 499, WPN 109, AYY 435/5, COI 36, TR 1037, NA 2880 Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe Bundesarchiv Soundtracks from Epidemic Sound: Dream Cave - Choirs of War Fabien Tell - Weapon of Choice Phoenix Tail - At the Front Jon Bjork - Shrouded in Conspiracy Cobby Costa - Missing the Subtext Rannar Sillard - March Of The Brave 4 Johan Hynynen - Dark Beginning Alec Slayne - Conspiracy Inc. Philip Ayers - The Unexplored Edward Karl Hanson - Spellbound A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

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Anonymous

Fun fact. The earliest iteration of “Kilroy was here” was “foo was here” which was scrawled on train walls in 1915/16 by Australian troops same down to the picture. According to at least one documentary (biographics) the foo was here meme was arguably the first modern meme.

Anonymous

We had a dukw in my home town growing up. It belonged to a company called “duck tours” and unsurprisingly gave amphibious tours of the area, I grew up by Lake Powell. It was cool seeing that around

Anonymous

The used to have DUKW's in Philly. 'ride the duck's was a great tourist ride around the town and then into the delaware river. Also did them in Boston and seattle. you don't realize how big those things are on land, but in the water there's just a few inches of freeboard.

Anonymous

Down here in Wildwood we used to have one at the old Civil Defense station on 2nd & Atlantic in North Wildwood.

Anonymous

Ah, Kilroy was here. The first time I actually even heard or found Kilroy was from the 2008 video game Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway. Pretty interesting graffiti meme this is...

Anonymous

hmm, I should have changed my username before upping my sub. oh well, my mistake

Anonymous

Robert Mitchum was in Tunis? I had a feeling.

Anonymous

When I was stationed at the Pentagon I often saw DC Duck Tours driving around Washington, DC in their brightly colored DUKWs. After 911 we looked at the feasibility of using them for emergency evacuations. I've read they shut down in 2013 after a couple of sinkings.

Anonymous

Interestingly, the exact same places being fought over in 1940s Crimea are the same ones being fought over today in the Ukraine. The German situation is similar to the Russian one today. Even a similar factory fight like in Stalingrad's Tractor Factory Fight. There should be some strategic history to help Ukraine. As, Russia seems to have made the same mistakes the Nazi's did in Crimea/Ukraine. They have very exposed flanks and the same retreat strips of land the Nazi tried to hold and Russians had to retreat across twice in 1940s. Russia's entire Army could be surrounded and trapped in the Eastern Ukraine. Just like what happened to the Nazi's in 1940s. History has a bad habbit of repeating itself, over, and over, and over again.

Anonymous

Ah Kilroys, I used to tag the various whiteboards the coaches put on their doors in the college athletic department with them. Then in the Army I used to do it to our whiteboards in the S2 shop if someone was foolish enough to leave a dry erase marker laying around. Then last week while working at Yankee Stadium for my TV job I did it to the YES Network Production Manager's board. Sadly majority of my victims had zero clue behind the meaning of "Kilroy was here."

Anonymous

when did the kilroy was here become the "wot no beer?" and "wot no fags?" (fags= cigarettes")

Anonymous

Fun times for everyone when the memes get started.

Anonymous

It doesn't repeat but to people who don't read or appreciate history it will appear as an echo.