In a letter home to his mother Radar writes that the 4077th has 200 people in the unit.
Early on Hawkeye mentions "Martin Bormann" while wondering aloud who is in Major Houlihan's tent. Bormann was a German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery. He became the private secretary of Adolf Hitler.
Colonel Sherman Potter served under Captain Harry S Truman in the trenches during World War I. He says he learned about proper foot care from the future president.
The first mention of Radar's uncle Ed. He would be mentioned one more time. He would be mentioned again in Good-Bye Radar: Part 1 (1979)(#8.4).
In this episode, Potter says, "The woman's not a nitwit." when the surgeons go a bit far in making noises like they were in the Officers Club. However, one of the more notorious examples of executives meddling in "AfterMASH", was to make the character of Mildred Potter, in the words of the press release, "more like Gracie Allan".