Captain Carmela Hix, USA (born April 22, 1920-died October 21, 2009) was a member of the 8063rd M*A*S*H unit during the Korean War, where she served as a US Army nurse, and also where she worked alongside a surgeon named H. Richard Thornberger, who would later be known to the literary and entertainment world as "Richard Hooker", the author of the original M*A*S*H novel about three Army Doctors, which served as the inspiration for both the Robert Altman film MASH and the long-running CBS-TV series M*A*S*H.