Week Two: Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce

Hawkeye-dubbed after a character in his father's favourite book "The Last of the Mohicans", was a surgeon drafted into the Korean war.  He was an unwilling victem who tryed to balance out his morales through humour, and drink, because operating on young men to send them back to the front lines, with the possiblity of getting killed was not his idea of a good time.  Hawkeye was a flavourful character, who always had a best friend in the camp, first Trapper John, then BJ Hunnicut.  Hawkeye was a real leader, and an interesting character.  He often wrote home to his father (his mother died while he was ten), and spent his time "keeping the nurses morale up".

Name: Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce Rank: Captain Hometown: Crabapple Cove, Maine Relatives: Dr. Daniel Pierce, "Tombstone" Pierce (great-grandfather). Eloise (aunt). Sparky Pierce (grandfather). Grandma Bates (grandmother). Billy (cousin). Martin (cousin) Spouse: none

Alan Alda portrayed Hawkeye, and also wrote, directed, and became the creative consultant in later episodes of M*A*S*H.  Alan Alda is currently hosting a television series called Scientific American Frontiers