In his 'obscene' opus set in WW2, Thomas Pynchon proposed that the scrawling of Kilroy was in fact originally part of a schematic representing a "band-pass filter".
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Ki...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Ki...
WWII is just one of many eras that V dabbles in. I imagine many on HN with an appreciation for literature and history would enjoy it.