

"What characterized the fighting in Korea", one of Hornberger's fellow officers recalled, "was that you would have a period of a week or 10 days when nothing much was happening, then there would be a push. During battle campaigns, units could see "as many as 1,000 casualties a day". doctors were in their 20s, many with little advanced surgical training. It was hot in the summer and colder than cold in the winter." The operating room consisted of stretchers balanced on carpenter's sawhorses. units, according to one doctor assigned to the unit, "weren't on the front lines, but they were close. After graduating from Cornell University Medical School, he was drafted into the Korean War and assigned to the 8055 Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (M.A.S.H. He attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Hornberger was born in 1924 and raised in Trenton, New Jersey. Butterworth, but actually written by Butterworth alone. Additionally, a series of sequels, of a different and lighter tone, were credited to Hooker and William E. Hooker followed the novel with two sequels. Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Korea during the Korean War. It is notable as the foundation of the M*A*S*H franchise, which includes a 1970 feature film and a long-running TV series (1972–1983). Richard Hornberger) with the assistance of writer W.C. MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors is a 1968 novel written by Richard Hooker (the pen name of former military surgeon H.
