Snapshot: Bing Crosby and Bob Hope sing “Mairzy Doats”

Newsreel footage of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope singing “Mairzy Doats,” a chart-topping 1943 novelty song, at an outdoor show for enlisted men stationed at the air base outside Santa Ana, California. Crosby and Hope, both together and separately, gave countless such performances for American soldiers and sailors throughout World War II:

(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)