Burns and Winchester were both Majors.
I believe I said that. :dubious:
He exasperated at Frank but there is nothing in that line which states that he is joking about being in WWII, quite the opposite in fact. I also recall him stating in another episode to radar about being in his barracks listening to “Der Furthers Face”. While the TV series was as to continuity as Paris Hilton is to chastity, I agree with Little Nemo, it would add gravitas to his character if his cynicism results from his earlier experiences.
Also if he joined up in 1943 or early 1944 after graduation from university, he could have easily seen quite a lot of action before the end of the war in NW Europe, Mediterranean or the Pacific and enrolled in Medical school in the 1945/1946 year. If say he graduated in 1943 at 21 he would have been 28 in 1950, about the right age for his character.
Hawkeye as a common grunt (sorry, dogface) in WWII?!? :eek: I have a really, really hard time visualizing that!
After Margaret got married, Frank went on a bender in Tokyo and apparently tore up the place.
As “punishment,” he was promoted to LtCol and sent Stateside to oversee a VA hospital.
~VOW
Same here. We’re talking about a guy who didn’t even know how to use the sidearm he was issued.
Oh, he knew how to use it. He just didn’t want to. When he and Potter were ambushed while drunk, Hawkeye fired his .45 wildly into the air while yelling, then released the slide, safed the weapon and holstered it before handing it back to Potter.
But Potter had to cock it for him. Seems to be another ambiguous question of many about that show.
Correction: Potter cocked it for him. We don’t know if Hawkeye knew how to do it, or if Potter just wanted to force his hand. Still ambiguous, I’ll grant you!
The exact quote is “Which war? I’ve been in two. I just can’t get enough.” He’s clearly being facetious.
I believe that’s the episode in which he can’t stop operating and exhaustion causes him to lose touch with reality. The episode ends with him trying to end the war by giving the North the officer’s latrine.
Yeah, Hawkeye goes to Radar’s office to send a telegram to Truman. He picks up Radar’s WWII comics and remarks how a lot of nice songs come of that war. He starts singing “I’ll Be Home for Chirstmas”, says he remembers being on the rug and listening to the song on the radio. He “can still smell the rug.”
“A lot of very touching songs came out of that war. When Der Fuhrer says, ‘We is the best, hooray!’ we heil <raspberry> heil <raspberry> right in Der Fuhrer’s face.”
Henry Blake was way too old to be a draftee. I suspect he was in the Reserve and got called up, and got the same rank as he held in the reserve even though he clearly wasn’t Regular Army. He was far more Regular Army in the book, IIRC.
BTW, I’ve read all of Hooker’s real MASH books, and I highly recommend them. Not so the books based on the series supposedly by Hooker. I read one of those, and it was tripe. MASH Goes to Maine is by Hooker, MASH goes anywhere else isn’t.
Wiki confirms this.
Maybe Hawkeye was just used to firing his WWII souvenir P-38, and forgot the 1911 is single action only.
Those books were written by W.E.B. Griffin (William Butterworth).
I am afraid we will have to agree to disagree. I see it as an exasperated comment and a none so subtle dig at Frank, but something which is supposed to be literally true. The conversation leading up to it has Frank happy about rises in stock price due to the war, both Hawk and Trapper are clearly disgusted at that.
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Per the series and Henry;s drunken ramblings he got sent to Korea within 8 hours after prescribing a coffee enema, Only a reservist would get called up that quickly.
Highly unlikely. One would expect that at some point he would have referred to his WWII service explicitly. In the season 3 episode “The Consultant”, Hawkeye excoriates Dr. Borelli for getting drunk when he’s supposed to be performing delicate surgery. Borelli retorts: “I wish you better luck on your third war.” If this were really Hawkeye’s third war, I would have expected a retort instead of stunned stillness.
I think we’ve established that MASH was inconsistent with several elements of continuity. Potter was originally from Nebraska, then from Missouri. Klinger was portrayed as an atheist, a Muslim, and a Catholic at various times through the series. Radar began the series as a cognac connoisseur, then became a alcoholic neophyte knocked back by a sip of gin. The writers did what they felt like; making the pieces fit was a low-level concern considering how quickly they had to churn out scripts.
Mondegreen alert!
It’s not “We is the best hooray”, it’s “Ve iss der master race.”
It’s not Hawkeye’s third war, it’s Borelli’s.
Right. If this were Hawkeye’s second war, I’d expect him to say something at this point–or earlier, when Borelli says that he’s had enough of war after WWI and II. It’s human nature.