Warrant Officer Willie Stratton was a chopper pilot who appears in the Season 5 episode of M*A*S*H titled Souvenirs. The part of Stratton is played by Micheal Bell in his only appearance in the series.
About Willie Stratton[]
Willie Stratton does a lucrative side business buying and selling war souvenirs. He pays Korean children small amounts of money to scavange for spent shell casings and other objects and then makes them up into souvenirs which he sells to the gullible. His actions put Korean children at risk. While scavenging items from him, they would occasionally pick up an unexpended shell which then goes off, step on a landmine or even trip a booby trap planted by the North Korean troops because they know that such souvenir hunting goes on. Hawkeye and B.J. have had to treat several Korean children injured in this way and are disgusted to see Stratton selling his wares in the mess tent. They approach Potter who agrees to their suggestion to give a stern warning to the MASH personnel.
During the talk, Stratton is defiant. He asks Potter if the Colonel is actually forbidding the buying and selling of souvenirs. Potter replies that he does not have that authority. He was just giving "friendly advice" to those who served under him.
In the O Club, Stratton is again selling his souvenirs. He has obviously decided to ignore Potter's admonishments. Hawkeye and B.J. try to reason with him but he brushes their concerns aside. Margaret who is slightly drunk tells the doctors they should stop wasting their time talking to Stratton. She tells Stratton that his attitude stinks. Her fiance Donald would have done it differently. She goes on to give an example of what Donald would have done: she grabs Stratton by the collar and decks him with a solid punch to the chin. "It's a good thing Donald isn't here," she tells them.
Later Stratton turns up in post-op to visit a Korean boy who had been injured by a landmine while scavenging items for him. Stratton gives him a gift of a cigarette lighter. For Hawkeye and B.J. this is the last straw. They take him outside but Stratton is still defiant. There's nothing they can do to stop him. But B.J. retorts that he is a "sick man" and the two doctors start discussing how he looks anemic and may have to be grounded. Faced with the loss of his flight status, Stratton tells them that he will stop his side business. But he tells Hawkeye and B.J. that they are unrealistic. They got him, but there are a thousand others doing the same thing. They can't change the world. "No, just our little corner of it," replies B.J.