AT THE SAME time, Fritz Kuhn’s goose-stepping German-American Bunders had taken over Camp Yaphank out on Long Island, renamed it Camp Siegfried and turned Irving Berlin’s star-spangled old ...

Irving Berlin in 1918 for the fundraising revue “Yip-Yip-Yaphank” at Camp Upton in Yaphank, New York, became one of the legendary composer’s best known songs. Berlin, who was born Israel ...

it was intended for a musical comedy revue about army life called Yip Yip Yaphank. The song's earnest tone ("It's a little sticky," was Berlin's assessment) didn't quite mesh with the show's light ...