Many things made it to the MASH movie and TV show that came from the book that were based on the real life experiences of the author, Richard Lee Hooker (whose real name was Richard Hornberger.) There was a real life Klinger: a doctor in Korea who did dress up in drag; a real life Margaret: a strong-willed head nurse who clashed with Hornberger; and a real life Ho-Jon: a Korean teenager who hustled and worked for the doctors so that he could move to America and get an education. The names were changed but the people were real. The other characters (Henry Blake, Duke, Trapper) were all amalgams of the people Hornberger interacted with. This article describes the veracity of Mash the TV show and movie to the real situations that the author experienced: "The book was adapted to a hit movie and then a TV show that helped capture life in the unit. Like the books (Hornberger) wrote, it included a strong-willed head nurse, a Korean teenager whom the doctors sent to the United States for college on their own dime, and a doctor who dressed in drag at least once. And it helped capture the sarcasm and heart of Hornberger himself through Hawkeye Pierce, whose sarcasm and heart helped his friends and patients sustain operating conditions that were primitive and, often, nearly hopeless."
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