Three Hundred SixtyEighth in the Famous People (FP) Series - Charles Emerson Winchester III
Major Charles Emerson Winchester III, M.D., is a character on the television series, M*A*S*H, played by David Ogden Stiers.
While Major Frank Burns was AWOL following a trip to Seoul after the marriage of Major Margaret Houlihan to Lieutenant Colonel Donald Penobscot, the staff at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) desperately needed a replacement surgeon to fill in. Colonel Sherman T. Potter placed a call to Tokyo General Hospital in search of a surgeon. Winchester's commanding officer was Colonel Horace Baldwin who owed Winchester more than $600 after being beaten at cribbage. Irritated at the loss, Baldwin volunteered Winchester for duty at the 4077th, reassuring him the assignment would only be for forty-eight hours.
Once Winchester arrived, he found the conditions appalling compared to the comfortable life he enjoyed at Tokyo General. Although his arrogance made a poor first impression, Winchester proved his surgical expertise when he performed a delicate heart operation on a ventricular aneurysm which the other doctors were unfamiliar with.
When it was learned that Major Burns would not be returning to the 4077th, Colonel Potter asked to have Winchester permanently assigned to the unit. This granted, Potter broke the news to Winchester. He was shocked at first, and attempted to bribe and threaten Potter, but his pleas fell on deaf ears from Potter who told him the alternative was a stint at Leavenworth. Very reluctantly, he moved into Burns' former quarters with Pierce and Hunnicutt, declaring his plans to use family influence to transfer back out.
Recalling those wonderful episodes of one of the greatest TV series of all time (IMHO), certainly brings back a Haven of Memories. Look closely as you approach GZ in the Haven Of Memories Cemetery for the marker of Charles F. Emerson who also served his country in the US Army. You are searching for a large pill bottle hidden in a fallen, rotting tree that may be hidden completely out of sight.
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