Jo Ann Thompson

Father Mulcahy writes a pre-Christmas letter home to his sister.

Hawkeye, BJ, and their medical cohorts find a new way to escape the depressing atmosphere of the war around them.

A soldier needs a major operation to save his life, and the 4077th has roughly 20 minutes before they must perform the operation. At the same time, another soldier lies dying, and his aorta could provide a needed graft for the other soldier. Hawkeye and the other doctors work to keep the first soldier alive while waiting for the other to die.

The officers are drafted into running the saloon while Rosie is in the hospital.

When Charles gets a week's worth of newspapers, he hoards them all to himself, much to the unit's dismay. A patient and a soldier are brothers on opposite sides of the war.

Maj Reddish tries to bribe an injured North Korean pilot to defect; Charles falls in love with a Red Cross worker.