For Igor, it was the mess tent, where he doled out the food that frequently became a target of comedy and ridicule from the main cast. He also appeared in two episodes of AfterMASH, and starred in the television pilot W*A*L*T*E*R. The character was portrayed by Gary Burghoff in both the film and on television, the only regular character played by a single actor. The show was set at the fictional General Pershing VA Hospital in Missouri, where he served as chaplain. Ginger is brought to tears by Frank's verbal assault prompting Hawkeye and Trapper to encase Frank's right arm in plaster capped with a metal retractor while Frank is sleeping.

[2] His birth name is taken from a member of Hooker's own family named Franklin Pierce.[3].

Though he promises to work things out with her, he has himself permanently transferred to San Francisco. 4/4/2023 7:35 AM PT. Ginger appears to be a competent nurse who is well-liked by the medical staff but occasionally runs afoul of Frank Burns who blames her for his mistakes, leading to Hawkeye and Trapper coming to her defense by pulling pranks on Frank. After being prominently featured as Hawkeye's love interest in the pilot, she appeared in only one further episode (Episode 1/11) before leaving the show entirely. Played by Linda Meiklejohn. In the TV version, the doctors raise funds for him by raffling off a weekend pass to Tokyo with Nurse Dish. The first name "Kealani" was never spoken on screen, but according to interviews with the actress, that was the first name used on set when referring to the character.

In the episode "A Full Rich Day", Blake says, "Tony, hit it", cueing the national anthem of Luxembourg over the PA Tony could have been the name of the announcer starting a record or the name of a "live" pianist. In AfterMASH, it is revealed that Max and Soon Lee found her family and helped them reestablish themselves as farmers, then moved together to the U.S. to settle down. Judging by his full name he comes from a Catholic family.

Capt. I'm just crazy!" is anywhere near the end of them. However, the producers added a final scene to his last episode in which Radar delivers news that Blake's plane has been shot down with no survivors. In the Season 10 episode "Promotion Commotion", Rizzo was one of three 4077th enlisted who appeared before a promotion board consisting of Hawkeye, B.J., and Winchester. He is devoted to his wife Peg (Ne Hayden) who writes many letters to him while he is in Korea.

Ginger's last appearance was in the season 4 episode, "The Late Captain Pierce".

They believe their romance is discreet, but it is common knowledge in the camp. He is known for his tremendous appetite for heaping portions of food, is not averse to drinking Henry Blake's brandy and smoking his cigars when the colonel is off-duty, and he occasionally drinks the moonshine liquor that Hawkeye and Trapper make in their still.

Other aliases include Major Brooks, Captain Louise Klein, Lieutenant Carter, Ensign Troy, and Chaplain Goldberg.[49]. Though Winchester did embody some antagonistic qualities similar to that of Burns, he proved over the course throughout his time on the series to be a very different character than his predecessor, being far more intelligent, humane, kind, and skilled in surgery. However, she faced racial discrimination and he turned to bookmaking, and is only able to escape prison time when Sherman Potter offers a character reference and hires him as his assistant at the veterans' hospital in Missouri where he now works. Sadly, in the nearly four decades since the show went off the air, many of the main cast members have passed away, including William Christopher (Father Mulcahy), Wayne Rogers ("Trapper" John), Larry Linville (Major Frank Burns), Harry Morgan Episode 5/11, "Hawkeye Get Your Gun." She's one of the camp's most capable nurses and is shown multiple times to be a friend of Hawkeye and Trapper. as a nurse. The character's middle name was Harmon in the film and Wendell in the novels. Trapper: "So are you, Sweetheart, but you don't know it.") Colonel Sherman Tecumseh Potter appears in the M*A*S*H and AfterMASH television series. 1st Lieutenant (later Captain) "Father" John Patrick Francis Mulcahy, SJ the order of his given names were not presented consistently in the series appears in the novel, film (played by Ren Auberjonois) and TV series (played by William Christopher except in the pilot). The character is seen and heard only once, in the first-season episode "Tuttle". The character on the television show was an anesthesiologist from Australia, often depicted wearing an Australian slouch hat. In real life, Jamie Farr is a devout Antiochian (Greek) Orthodox. He is also mentioned, but does not appear onscreen, in the episodes "Mad Dogs and Servicemen", "Heal Thyself", "A Holy Mess", and "Trick or Treatment". Company clerk Radar can usually anticipate his wishes and turn them into efficient military orders, but Henry often gets flustered when an important decision needs to be made. She was 84. His medical incompetence causes Colonel Blake to instead assign Trapper John as Chief Surgeon. He makes his first appearance in the Season 2 episode, "For Want of a Boot", and his final appearance in the Season 8 episode," Good-Bye Radar" (which also marked Gary Burghoff's last appearance on the show as Corporal Radar O'Reilly). In the novel, the extent of the relationship between Burns and Houlihan is unclear and only rumored to be sexual. The 88-year-old has also appeared on shows like "The Love Boat," "That '70s Show," and "Family Guy," and in films like the "Cannonball Run" series. He is transferred stateside for psychiatric evaluation, but although the 4077th is delighted to be finally rid of him, Burns has the last laugh. In the book, the character's full name is Hamilton Hartington Hammond, and he is stationed in Seoul. The characters are shocked by the news; the actors were shocked too, as they were not informed of the script change to have Blake die until just before the scene was shot.[11]. WebM*A*S*H (an acronym for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) is an American war comedy-drama television series that aired on CBS from September 17, 1972 to February 28, 1983. Nakahara joined Morgan, Christopher, and Farr on AfterMASH, albeit off-camera, as the recurring voice of the public address system at the V.A. His full name is never given in the original novel or film, but on the TV series it is Walter Eugene O'Reilly, 'Walter' being picked by Burghoff himself. He serves as an orderly/sentry and later company clerk assigned to the 4077th. Gelbart, Larry & Marks, Lawrence. First aired November 29, 1982. The later novels by Richard Hooker and William Butterworth give his name as J. Robespierre O'Reilly. His luck at poker is unremarkable, however.

Burns's only friend in the unit is head nurse Major Margaret Houlihan, with whom he has an ongoing affair. Alternatively, in the lobby of Memorial Hall at Harvard University, the names of Harvard men who died in the Civil War are inscribed. scenes. Trapper spends much of his time on the series engaging in mischief with Hawkeye Pierce, with the two playing practical jokes on Majors Frank Burns and Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan, drinking, and trying to seduce women. Staff Sergeant Luther Wilson Rizzo was played by G. W. Bailey. A nurse at the 4077th, who at times casually dates both Hawkeye and Trapper. In the episodes "For the Good of the Outfit" and "Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde", Dennis is General Clayton's jeep driver. She had great pride in her Asian American heritage and frequently took umbrage at racial slurs leveled by Frank Burns. He's appeared in films like "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up," as well as shows like "Parks and Recreation" and "Person of Interest."

She's remained close with many of her former "M*A*S*H" co-stars, Maxwell actually published his own cookbook. By the time the series went off the air, he'd accrued a staggering 25 Emmy Award nominations and 12 Golden Globe nods for his work. His most recent starring role was as Detective Louie Provenza in TNT's "The Closer" and "Major Crimes." He was given the nickname "Hawkeye" by his father, Benjy (Sr.), in the novel and in the series from the character in the novel The Last of the Mohicans, "the only book my old man ever read". Production never proceeded past the pilot, which aired once on CBS. She is the Regular Army head nurse of the 4077th and begins allied with Major Frank Burns against the more civilian doctors of the unit. He is later promoted to Sergeant ("Promotion Commotion") and begins to take his duties even more seriously; the writers had decided to "tap into his street skills" to flesh out his character. He seems to have extra-sensory perception, appearing at his commander's side, with whatever paperwork is required, before being called; and finishing his sentences before the C.O. Despite Trapper's efforts, however, she becomes romantically linked with Hawkeye in a few episodes. After the series ended, Swit continued to work in television, including some voiceover work in shows like "Batman: The Animated Series" and "Cow and Chicken." The wedding is cut short by incoming wounded, which leaves Donald in the mess hall, unable to move in his body cast. Fans of the hit sitcom "M*A*S*H" were devastated when Kellye Nakahara Wallett, the beloved actress who played the role of Lt. Nurse Kellye Yamato on the sitcom, passed away on February 16 following a brief battle with cancer. The character of Igor debuted in the second season and appeared sporadically until the series finale. He is a third-generation doctor in his family. His nickname is probably a carry-over from the days of telegraphy. He actively avoids the finality of farewells, but when the 4077th is disbanded in the series finale, he is last seen riding his Indian motorcycle away from camp, while Hawkeye sees from a helicopter that B.J. Like Swit, Farr has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and appeared in every season of "M*A*S*H." He even starred in the short-lived sequel series "AfterMASH," which followed Klinger, Harry Morgan's Sherman T. Potter character, and the late William Christopher's Father Mulcahy (the fourth and final character to feature in all eleven seasons) after they returned home from the war. In later seasons, his roles were expanding, making him more of a recurring cast member. "M*A*S*H" is a series that defined an era of television, balancing smart comedy with heavy, sometimes politicized storylines. Duke makes racist comments about Jones, causing Hawkeye and Trapper to punish Duke. Donald is introduced in name only at the start of the fifth season. The star was best known for working on the long-running smash-hit TV series MASH which aired from 1972 until 1983. Although Burns was Hawkeye's archenemy and Blake was Hawkeye's friend, one trait shared by Colonel Blake and Major Burns was a hypocritical attitude toward their marriage vows. In the screenplay, Ho-Jon is wounded and sent to the 4077th; however, his surgery is unsuccessful, and he dies.

Fans of the early seasons of "M*A*S*H" will remember the character of Captain Calvin Spaulding, the music-minded doctor played by Loudon Wainwright III who appears in a handful of episodes. In talking to psychiatrist Sidney Freedman he first says that the woman had suffocated a chicken, until Freedman led him to admit the repressed memory - the horror of a mother smothering her own baby. The series finale, which aired in 1983, was watched by 105.97 million viewers according to the Nielson Company. Despite the popularity of the show, however, only four of the main cast members remained on the series for all eleven seasons. Freedman led Hawkeye to stop suppressing the memory of seeing a Korean mother smothering her crying baby to keep it silent, so a North Korean patrol would not find and kill or capture their group. "; in that episode's original script, Klinger was an effeminate gay man ("a silly fag character" as stated by Farr in the documentary Making M*A*S*H), but the writers later agreed that it would be more interesting to have Klinger be heterosexual, but wear dresses in an attempt to gain a Section 8 discharge. He also has claimed to be in two different theaters of War during World War II: In the summer of 1944 on Guam; in December 1944 in the Battle of the Bulge. In the series of novels co-written with (or ghost-written by) William E. Butterworth, Houlihan reappears as the twice-widowed Margaret Houlihan Wachauf Wilson, both husbands having expired on the nuptial bed through excessive indulgence in her still-outstanding physical charms. Staff Sergeant Zelmo Zale was portrayed by Johnny Haymer. However, Ugly John was still a recurring character, and may have been one of the "three other doctors". There were a few different voices in the series, among them Todd Susman's and Sal Viscuso's. Judy Farrell, known for her role as Nurse Able in M*A*S*H , died on Sunday. He is one of the main characters in the M*A*S*H TV series during the first three seasons and the central character of the latter series. As the 4077th's most irreverent surgeon, he blended great comedic timing with moments of intense emotional acting a microcosm of the balance that made the show so great. ", Freedman told those gathered in the operating room: "Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice: Pull down your pants and slide on the ice." He is not seen again until the sixth-season episode "The M*A*S*H Olympics", in which Donald (played this time by Henry) arrives to visit Margaret and ends up taking part in the 4077th's amateur Olympics competition; he almost wins a race against portly Sgt. Ugly John was never seen living in "The Swamp" and there was no fifth bunk, though it was the only quarters for subordinate male officers ever seen. Hopefully, viewers will be able to continue enjoying Bailey's unique breed of character acting for more years to come. His sister's religious name is Theresa. Despite their long-running mutual antagonism, Hawkeye and Margaret came to develop respect and affection for each other, reflected in a long passionate farewell kiss in the final episode. WebThis is a list of characters from the M*A*S*H franchise, covering the various fictional characters appearing in the novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors and its sequels, the 1970 film adaptation of the novel, and the television series M*A*S*H, [41] Another occasionally recurring gag is Radar's ineptitude with the bugle; he invariably mangles any calls he tries to play, and his bugle has suffered abuse such as being shot out of his hand and thrown into a roaring bonfire. A plot hole is that in her 10-year career she is a major; according to the 1959 US Army Almanac p.148 a US Army officer rank of captain is 7 years service; a major rank is 14 years. He carries with him a pocketful of passes for any potential scam that might arise and has a racket of selling tickets for spying through a peephole into the nurses' shower. After the war ends and the 4077th is disestablished, he returned to Boston, where the position of Chief of Thoracic Surgery at a prestigious hospital awaits him. In the movie, he is played by Bud Cort, and Boone's humiliation at the hands of Maj. Burns leads to Trapper striking Burns later that day. 11 Seasons.

In "Officer of the Day", while with another soldier, he is referred to as either Carter or Willis (it is not clear which of the two is which). He is portrayed by Dennis Fimple, who plays him with a noticeable Southern US accent. His first appearance was in the fourth episode, "Chief Surgeon Who? As a singer-songwriter, he's probably most famous for his notorious comedy song "Dead Skunk (in the Middle of the Road)"; his most recent studio album, "Lifetime Achievement," was released in 2022. Sometimes, for special calls, Sparky requires a bribe to arrange the connection. Klinger is a fan of the Toledo Mud Hens, an actual minor league baseball team, and occasionally voices his high opinion of the hot dogs at Tony Packo's, an actual Toledo restaurant. [46] In other episodes, Klinger pleads with Allah to help him out of a jam.

While he assumes the same general disregard for military discipline exhibited by both Hawkeye and Trapper--going as far as to grow out a moustache at the start of the 7th season in clear violation of Army uniform guidelines (and would be retained by the character for the rest of the series, though Farrell would shave it off immediately after the series ended)[7]--B.J.

In the novel, Burns is a well-off doctor who attended medical school, but whose training as a surgeon was limited to an apprenticeship with his father in Fort Wayne, Indiana. As a surgeon, he does not like the use of firearms and he refuses to carry a sidearm as required by regulations when serving as Officer of the Day. [citation needed]. His nickname comes from an incident in which he was caught having sex with a woman in the lavatory aboard a Boston & Maine Railway train: she claimed in her defense that "he trapped me!". He once mentioned to Father Mulcahy that he sets aside three dollars from each salary payment for the local orphanage. (The absence of Miller's considerable baritone resonance would suggest the latter.) Henry would never meet his son. Though music has been Wainwright's primary medium for the past few decades, he still acts from time to time. Igor and Rizzo filled similar roles on the show, frequently as comic stooges tied to different parts of the camp's operations. In the novel, the phrase is first used by Trapper John McIntyre, when he is flirting with Margaret after learning about her affair with Frank Burns. This frustrated Rogers, and in combination with a dispute over the terms of the original five-year contract, he quit the show shortly before production of the fourth season began; the character of Trapper was abruptly discharged from the Army and sent back to the United States. [10] As shown in Episode 2/16, "Henry in Love," Blake holds a Commendation Medal, a Purple Heart, an Army of Occupation Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean War Campaign Medal, and the U.N. Service Medal. He telephones Hawkeye and B.J. On television, Alan Alda played the Captain. Also, where Burns was always the fall-guy and butt of Hawkeye's roasts and insults, Winchester often was able to match wits with Hawkeye and even zinged him back, which Hawkeye seemed to actually respect. Roy Goldman is a medic who is assigned various duties at the 4077th.

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In the series, it is unknown where on the base the PA announcer is posted, as Radar is the only one seen in control of the radio and PA system. Christopher, who was diagnosed with cancer about 18 months ago, died in his bed at his home in Pasadena, California, according to his longtime New York-based agent, Robert Malcolm. Although he is ordained as a Catholic priest, Mulcahy demonstrates both an inclination towards Christian ecumenism and a studious interest in, and familiarity with, non-Christian faiths. Corporal (later Sergeant) Maxwell Q. He began as a significant supporting member of the cast, often engaged in poker games with Hawkeye and Trapper, but by the end of the season, he was rarely seen outside brief O.R. Henry is a good man and a capable surgeon but an ineffectual commanding officer. Charles Winchester was born in his grandmother's house in the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Beacon Hill, and is part of a wealthy family of Republican Boston Brahmins. [48] In a season 3 episode, when asked what happened to "that surgeon you had from Georgia", Trapper answers, "He got sent stateside! Besides Houlihan, Burns has had affairs with his housekeeper, his receptionist, and two nurses at the 4077th. He is played by Herb Voland. McLean Stevenson began in show business at age 31.

Although his career was in the Horse Cavalry until 1924 when he married, he has told inconsistent stories about being in the Infantry during World War I: During combat in World War I, at the July 1918 Battle of Chteau-Thierry, he was mustard gassed, leaving him blind for a month in a French hospital.

In "Bombshells", he is an ambulance driver for the 8063rd MASH and does not seem to recognize BJ Hunnicutt. When Wayne Rogers left "M*A*S*H" between its third and fourth seasons and took his "Trapper" John McIntyre character with him, it would have been fair for fans to have some trepidation about his replacement. Igor's role is generally comic relief. Radar frequently looks to the doctors for advice, and increasingly regards Henry Blake and then Sherman Potter as father figures, having lost his elderly father at a young age. Loretta Swit, who starred as Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan on "M*A*S*H," says Farrell was "family." However, the earliest a soldier in the army was credited towards this award was 1940, and as a physician Potter would have been a commissioned officer and so ineligible for it at the time. Captain "Ugly" John Black was portrayed by Carl Gottlieb in the movie, and John Orchard in the TV series. They share a disdain for the "un-military" doctors, against whom they conspire ineffectively. By season seven, Burghoff started experiencing burnout and decided it was time to quit; he finished season seven, then returned the next season for a two-part farewell episode titled "Good-Bye Radar" in which Radar was granted a hardship discharge after the death of his Uncle Ed to help on the family farm, which he accepted after being satisfied that Klinger could adequately replace him.

He makes it a point to play up his antics to visiting high-ranking officers in an attempt to gain their sympathy and convince them that he is unfit to serve. Dennis rarely speaks, and never beyond a few words. (Gary Burghoff is the other.). Burns further asserts that the other surgeons could not keep up with him and complained that he was pushing them too hard. In the book and the film, Hawkeye had played football in college; in the series, he is non-athletic. Later the name "Goldman" was firmly established as his own. [19], A borderline-incompetent surgeon (he twice failed the medical exams and only passed by buying the answers the third time - even so it took him seven years to complete medical school), his reputation for incompetence has spread even to the South Korean Army. He also actually served in the military during the Korean War. He tells Hawkeye he has "a great practice back home", but a "routine" one, and that by serving in Korea, he is doing more doctoring than he would otherwise do in a lifetime. In the TV series, Burns is a firm believer in military discipline and continues to fancy himself a superior surgeon; but his actions invariably reveal his incompetence and require one of the other surgeons to prevent him from making fatal mistakes. He thereafter appears in a handful of episodes as a very minor character, played by Bob Gooden. Hawkeye remarks, "Watch the cake die of malpractice!". She refuses to leave Korea until she finds her family, leading to the irony that although the end of the war means Klinger is free to return to the US, he chooses to stay with her in Korea and aid in her search. A nurse introduced as a new transfer in the episode "Requiem for a Lightweight". John Orchard later returned to the show for the Season 8 episode "Captains Outrageous", this time playing a drunken and corrupt Australian Military Policeman "Sgt. Originally from Honolulu, she described herself as "part Chinese, part Hawaiian" in Episode 8/11 "Life Time" and speaks Japanese, as revealed in "Communication Breakdown". He is usually seen in a non-medical setting (such as guard duty), though he also does chores within the hospital. His strength as a commander is his ability to maintain the morale of his unit, which he does through heartfelt talk and indulgence of the lunacy that is a hallmark of the 4077th. Burghoff reprised his role as Radar as a guest star in "AfterMASH" and in the TV special "W*A*L*T*E*R*," which was originally intended as the pilot of a separate spinoff. One of the most distinct, memorable performances on "M*A*S*H" is that of Jamie Farr, who played the crossdressing Lebanese American corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger. He was not promoted, but made it clear that he was American "with an American wife and American son, Billy Bubba". Private Igor Straminsky was generally portrayed by actor Jeff Maxwell, although Peter Riegert played him in two sixth-season episodes.

Although his quiet faith in God is unshakable, Mulcahy is often troubled over whether his role as chaplain and religious leader has importance compared to the doctors' obvious talent for saving lives.

The announcer on the public address system is heard throughout the film and in most episodes of the series. Potter was created as a different type of commanding officer than his predecessor: a "Regular Army" career officer, and close to retirement. [52] On several occasions, though, she is called "Lt. Nakahara", notably in the season 10 episode "The Birthday Girls", and in the last regular episode of season 11, the final episode filmed, "As Time Goes By", Major Houlihan refers to Kellye as "Lt. Nakahara". Spearchucker's role was limited. Here are what these "M*A*S*H" icons are doing nowadays. Initially outraged to find that they were traded on the black market, he learns that the candies were sold to buy an entire month's worth of food for the orphans.

Among those from the Medical School is listed one Benjamin Franklin Peirce [sic]. Another time, he cons nearly every member of MASH 4077 into buying mail-order shoes. As an indication of their respect for him, in the final episode Hawkeye and B.J. formally salute Potter as he leaves the camp, one of the few times either is shown doing so.

In the same episode, Trapper agrees to participate in a boxing match with a fighter from another outfit in exchange for a promise by Henry Blake that Cutler will be kept at the 4077th. It is framed and hung behind his desk during his tenure at the 4077th. She was 84. Burns and Hawkeye recount different versions of the events. He had harsh words with Winchester when the latter, acting as motor pool officer, required him to completely disassemble a jeep's engine and lay it out on white sheets, for no good reason that Rizzo could see.

The character returned to television in 1979 in the medical drama series Trapper John, M.D. This is demonstrated in his agreeing to perform Protestant church services for Colonel Potter ("Welcome to Korea: Part 2"), offering a prayer in Hebrew for a wounded Jewish soldier ("Cowboy"), and explaining the rituals of a Buddhist wedding to other attendees from the camp ("Ping Pong"). (Sparky seems to be at his desk around the clock). In the third-season episode "Springtime", Klinger marries his girlfriend, Laverne Esposito, via radio. Not many On occasion, he assumes temporary command of the 4077th in the absence or disability of Colonels Blake or Potter. In the episode "O.R. Sparky is the mostly unseen telephone/radio operator at headquarters. Menu. Skerritt reportedly turned down the offer from 20th Century Fox to reprise his role as Duke on the series because he doubted that a half-hour sitcom adaptation of the film would succeed. Margaret promptly accepts, leading to a falling out with her former flame Frank Burns. While originally written to be from New York City, when the producers heard Bailey's southern accent in his first dailies his character was moved to Louisiana.

In the final episodes of the series, Klinger gets engaged to Soon Lee Han (Rosalind Chao), a Korean refugee; when proposing to her, he suggests she wear the wedding dress he had himself worn in one of his attempted Section Eight escapades and explains to her what white means in his culture. He continued working in television in the years following "M*A*S*H," even hosting the game show "Shopper's Casino" in the late '80s. Radar almost always needs to go through Sparky when he makes a call to Seoul, Japan, or the US. Captain B.J.

After leaving Korea and the army, Freedman accepts a post at the University of Chicago.

Corporal (briefly 2nd Lieutenant) Walter Eugene "Radar" O'Reilly appears in the novels, film, and TV series. Rizzo enjoys shooting craps and seems to win more than he loses. Major (later Lieutenant Colonel) Franklin Delano Marion "Frank" Burns is the main antagonist in the film (played by Robert Duvall) and the first five seasons of the television series (Larry Linville). He was 84. It is Mulcahy who alerts the doctors that the camp dentist "Painless" is severely depressed.

at Harvard Medical in Boston in 1948, and worked at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Seen only during season one. Captain Oliver Harmon "Spearchucker" Jones is a character who appears in the novel MASH (and its sequels), and was portrayed by Fred Williamson in the movie and Timothy Brown in the television series. Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. He was played by George Morgan in the pilot episode of the series, but the producers decided that a quirkier individual was needed for the role.[42]. Burns first appeared in the original novel, where he had the rank of captain. Initially, he is transferred to the 4077th to help them win a football game (Jones is said to have played with the NFL's San Francisco 49ers) against the 321st Evac Hospital.

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