A possible origin for this imaginary U.S. WWII icon is a shipyard worker who signed his name on inspected craft
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Jeopary Questions page 2234 - POLK-ER - TriviaBistro.com  STUD: This "Lord of the Rings" actor used his artistic & writing talent to create the book "Recent Forgeries"  POLK-ER: ... DRAW: A possible origin for this imaginary U.S. WWII icon is a shipyard worker who signed his name on inspected craft.
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Rosie the Riveter - Wikipedia  Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies. These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers ... The name is said to be a nickname for Rosie Bonavita who was working for...
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Appendix:Glossary of military slang - Wiktionary  40 mike-mike: (U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, and U.S. Marine Corps) A 40mm grenade ... During WWII, Korea, and early Vietnam, prior to 1970, this terminology ... 18th Century) An officer who has just thrown up in the lap of his neighbor. ...... Usually a Japanese shipyard worker, but can also be applied to any Japanese citizen.
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WWII's Kilroy Was Here , The inside info on how the legend started  Kilroy became the US super-GI who always got there first  wherever GI's went. ... between the women and Kilroy until he began to draw images and signing his name. ... During an inspection of the fleet he noticed that bolts on the ship had seven or .... California, where many women served in shipyards during World War II.
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Etymology of Kilroy Was Here : snopes.com  Feb 18, 2008 ... In 1946 the American Transit Association, through its radio program, "Speak to ... Kilroy was a 46-year old shipyard worker during the war. ... He continued to put his checkmark on each job he inspected, but ... the tale about a shipyard inspector as the true origin of the phrase. .... Thank you for signing up:
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Philadelphia experiment | UF0 News / UFO Sightings  Mar 7, 2016 ... According to legend, the destroyer USS Eldridge was made invisible, ... Pennsylvania, to Norfolk, Virginia, and back again to the Philadelphia Naval Yard. ... with "invisibility" in 1943, but not with making ships disappear. ..... that the entire 'experiment' may in fact be a massive hoax, a modern urban legend...
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J! Archive - Show #4467, aired 2004-01-27  Joseph McCarthy looked into wallets in 1950 & saw this type of .... of Coast Guard vessel, seen here, used to have "Revenue" before its name...
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Can anyone identify the sailor who appears on Players Navy Cut ...  Nooks and crannies ... The sailor was modelled on Charles Stewart Parnell MP, a famous Irish ... I can confirm he is Thomas Huntley Wood, originally based on HMS ... (Wish I had paid more attention) Perhaps there were many sitters for the .... and appeared the next year advertising the players navy cut cigarette brand, and...
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J! Archive - Show #2621, aired 1996-01-15  In 1846, about 4,000 U.S. soldiers were posted on alert near this North .... In 1874, Manet painted this artist with a similar name "Working on His Boat in...
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Rosie The Riveter Trust - Living History: Learning about the last ...  Nov 5, 2015 ... The Richmond office of the Boilermakers, a shipyard labor union that employed Soskin as a clerk in 1942. ... the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park. ... is a star attraction of this urban park in Richmond, California. ... Rosie the Riveter has become a symbol of American women...
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John F. Kennedy and PT 109 - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library ...  Painting of the August 2, 1943 sinking of PT109 by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri. ... The young lieutenant and his crew first believed it to be another PT boat. .... Evans already notified his commander of the discovery of PT-109's survivors,...
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Happy Birthday Samuel Plimsoll, the Sailor's Friend - a Man Who ...  Feb 10, 2013 ... Early in his career he had been the manager of a brewery and is ... If these 'coffin ships' sank, their over-insured owners usually cashed in at Lloyd's. ... parts of the UK, while 15 towns have streets named after him.. The Plimsoll Line symbol later became the inspiration for the London Underground sign
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The C.E.O. of Comedy - The New Yorker  Dec 21, 1998 ... There is the U.S.N.S. Bob Hope, the second-largest ship in the Navy; ... Medal in 1963, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it. ... he found a way of linking the sponsors' brand names with his own ... He came on as if he were carrying a great weight of almost civic ...... To keep you from the rain.
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Jeopary Questions page 414 - NEWSPAPERS - TriviaBistro.com  1987: With infrared gear, U.S. Army crews were able to prove that the vessel "Iran Ajr" was engaged in this  SIGNS & SYMBOLS: Usual number of dots in an...
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Cargo cults - WWII Today - WWII Forums  Islanders have celebrated John Frum's generosity for 50 years Every ... figure who they believe will one day bring them wealth and happiness. .... They believe that the arrival of cargo must be stimulated by some kind of religious ritual, .... The priests and prophets of the John Frum cult, called "messengers,"...
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Jeopary Questions page 1701 - ALL LIT UP - TriviaBistro.com  CELEBRATED AFRICAN-AMERICANS: This boxing hall of famer seen here "bombed" ... "Equine" nickname of the WWII plane seen here; it wasn't built by Ford.
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The Swastika - The Future for a Symbol of Great Good and Ultimate ...  Oct 20, 2016 ... This is the story of the most controversial symbol in the world. ... Some Early Representations of Swastikas from Around the World ... in the Swastikas can also be found on the floor of Amiens Cathedral in France, dating to .... An Icelandic Steamship Company, 'Eimskip' used a swastika in its logo from 1914.
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The Whale has Wings | Page 70 | Alternate History Discussion  Feb 14, 2012 ... Akron and Macon were frankly named after cities, the latter to flatter ... As a natural area of the United States, USN naming conventions during WW2 would class ... Again, naval heroes had destroyers named after them, and all of these ... the mid-1930s, while the USS Dewey (DD-349) was a Farragut-class...
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CRUISING LIKE A PRESIDENT / FDR's yacht Potomac, restored to ...  Sep 26, 1997 ... in the past two years, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's historic ... where he could fish, add to his stamp collection and play cards with ... and recommissioned in 1936 as the USS Potomac, with an elevator installed in a false smokestack. ... adjoining bathroom and, for his beloved dog Fala, a sleeping basket...
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REFLECTIONS | September 16, 1830: The Poet That Saved Old ...  Sep 16, 2009 ... The USS Constitution was the first commissioned ship of the United States Navy. ... by a blacksmith named Paul Revere, who is better known for his famous ... be destroyed by the Navy, Holmes was moved to write Old Ironsides ... In 1858 he helped found the magazine Atlantic Monthly, which he named.
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The Kissing Sailor | U.S. Naval Institute  The Mystery Behind the Photo that Ended World War II ... On August 14, 1945, Alfred Eisenstaedt took a picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, minutes after ... It became one of the most famous WWII photographs in history (and the most ... was known as the woman in the photo of V-J Day, 1945, Times Square.