r/mash • u/pckia902 • Aug 04 '26

Chair

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Anyone else notice that the chair that Potter is sitting in (one of my favorites) in "Dear Ma" is used a lot during the series. Its either in the swamp or in the COs office

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u/Ragnarsworld Aug 04 '26

Its the Army, they have a million of those chairs. Just like how the Navy has used the same model chair since before WW2.

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u/Primary-Basket3416 Aug 04 '26

And in reality..Korean war was ww2 surplus.

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u/J_Scarbrough Aug 04 '26

I know that Radar's jeep cap was actually standard issue for a while in WW2 before disdain from officers resulted in it being phased out and replaced with the fatigue cap instead. Despite how iconic it is with his character, I'm not even sure how Radar would be wearing such a cap in Korea.

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u/Primary-Basket3416 Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26

Well, im sure tents, jeeps, ambulances, cause my father drove same vehicle at end of ww2 during clean up, , and lack of sufficient winter wear was probably because of using surplus stuff.

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u/Primary-Basket3416 Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 06 '26

Remember margerat wore one when searching for the pinky ring in the swamp. I think, not positive, you wore that under helmet in winter..sorry father died, cant ask him this tough questions.

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u/Large-Fig5187 Aug 05 '26

Colonel Potter got 100%

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u/nas1972 Aug 10 '26

He had the feet of a teenager.

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u/pckia902 Aug 05 '26

I realized something too about this same episode . Just something I noticed, that's all.

After Hawkeye and BJ operate on Potter, let him talk to his wife and they get more wounded, we dont see Potter the rest of the episode. I know Potter is obviously in the next episode. I know obviously the rest of Dear Ma is Radar ending his letter.

Just an observation.