Chapter 8 Summary

In Chapter 8, Trapper and Hawkeye begin to play golf with clubs acquired from Japan and wood and iron facsimiles of golf balls. One day while they are golfing, they receive word from a helicopter pilot that a General wants them to fly to Kokura and operate on a Congressman's son. They travel there, making jokes along the way and accompanied by their golf clubs.

Hawkeye and Trapper hear that the Kokura Open will start the day after they arrive, so they hatch a plan to operate on the Congressman's son and then play in the Open. When they arrive at the hospital, they manipulate their way to see the Congressman's son early and are able to start the operation, which is routine.

It turns out the anesthesiologist is a friend of Hawkeye's at Androscoggin. They reconnect and "Me Lay" Marston tells them that...