Dunbar – Clevinger – Hungry Joe – Aarfy – – Other Combat Major Major – – General Dreedle – Nurses And The War Chronology Milo Chaplain Enlisted Men Italians Casualties Notes Mcwatt Dobbs Captain Black Dr. Stubbs Officer Major Danby Colonel Korn General Aferem Other Women In Europe

Daneeka: profitable Cathcart a Harvard Nately rich – Clevinger Hungry Joe Married; a faithful Aarfy a college Married; with young Major Major looks 1943 Civilians Urban Assyrian Poor and rustic practice before war graduate with a an idealistic student a photographer husband alumnus children like Henry Fonda 6/6 – Sicily landings kickbacks cigarette holder

Soldier who sees Wintergreen advises Family of the dead 9/9 – Stationed in Colorado. Meets Wintergreen. Discovers Hospital. Promoted by an everything twice dies Early 1944 Enlisted man Yossarian to do soldier visits Yossarian American forces Episode of “Soldier Who Saw Everything Twice.” IBM machine. of some mysterious his duty. instead of their son. land at Salerno disease.

Clevinger faces trial ’s wife Stationed at Santa Ana California: Bombardier meets Clevinger, Trained at cadet Scheisskopf has Aviation Cadet as a cadet and is Milo is a pilot. has an affair with Scheisskopf wins parades. Sleeps with Scheisskopf’s wife. school as a pilot. a mania for parades. found guilty. Yossarian.

Cathcart’s predecessor Mcwatt is Yossarian’s Aarfy is Yossarian’s Dreedle has taken Found guilty. Nately is Orr is a pilot in a wing Volunteers for Mess The Chaplain does Becomes a full Col. Nevers – previous was, presumably, a 25 missions Shipped overseas Flies as lead Bombardier. Later he is demoted to Wing Bombardier, pilot – Dunbar a lead Hungry Joe and navigator – Black is his son-in-law, a copilot – Clevinger plane and is always Officer as soon as not fit in and has Colonel at age 36. Group Commander satisfactory officer 1/22 – Anzio landings required to then reinstated, then demoted again. bombardier in another Dobbs are both pilots. the Squadron Colonel Moodus a bombardier. being shotdown. he arrives overseas. no friends. Longs to be a General. is killed over Arezzo. who did not shrink squadron. Intelligence Officer. into the business. his combat duties. Hungry Joe has 25 He produces fresh Cathcart arrives as the Cathcart arrives as Finds true happiness Arrives as the new Yossarian has 23 missions when Cathcart arrives and missions and is waiting eggs and begins He fears both Colonels new Commander and 1944 – Jan-March: 30 missions Group Commander – as a combat pilot, Group Commander and raises the missions to 30. to go home. He is put organizing his and is bullied by them. immediately raises Cassino battles raises missions where he finally fits in. raises missions to 30. back on combat. buying syndicate. the missions to 30. Cathcart has Hungry Joe has volunteered his men Aarfy misleads Reprimands Yossarain, Kraft – his plane Goes over the target twice. Destroys the bridge. Is reprimanded wrecked a plane Kraft is killed on for Ferra to make Mcwatt is Yossarian’s Yossarian making it then decides to blows up right above 5/12 – Anzio and March Ferrara because Kraft’s plane is shot down the second time around. needlessly. He was Yossarian’s second a good impression pilot on this mission. necessary for them promote him and Yossarian’s the Cassino breakthrough To avert criticism, Yossarian is given a medal and promoted to Captain. given a medal to bomb run. for himself. Yossarian to go around twice. give him a medal. second time around. cover up his mistake. feels responsible for Kraft’s death. Major Major is Major Duluth – Major Major’s Orr goes along Milo flies to Egypt Black starts his appointed Squad Dissaproves of Black’s April Milo forms his Cartel He loves his wife previous Squadron predecessor, like on the trip to Egypt and buys the whole loyalty oath crusade Commander when loyalty oath campaign 35 missions (April) and misses her. Commander is killed Colonel Cathcart’s, to buy cotton. cotton crop. against Major Major. predecessor is killed but afraid to intervene. in action over Perugia. is killed in combat. over Perugia. Milo organizes As Squad Commander 1. Nately falls in love. Milo arranges Mudd, the dead man Nately’s whore sits the mission to Orvieto June 4 Hungry Joe is amazed Aarfy speaks of he is ostrasized and Mudd – the dead man 6/4 – Rome entered Rome captured Dunbar goes to 2. Nately finds his girl themission to Orvieto in Yossarain’s tent, naked in a room as a sound business Allies enter Yossarian accompanies Nately to his girlfriend’s whorehouse. by all the naked girls Nately’s girl with abused and made in Yossarian’s tent 6/6 – Normandy (June 4) the whorehouse. again. 3. They go as a business deal, is killed over Orvieto full of enlisted men venture and does Rome in the apartment. smug contempt. the victim of Black’s is killed over Orvieto. landings to her apartment. working for both sides. the day he arrives. who ignore her. not feel guilty over loyalty oath crusade. Mudd’s death. Peckem receives Black rejoices that After he is beaten up a medal and begins The old man in 1. Mission is postponed and everyone is terrified. Hungry Joe has Milo has disapproved men are going to Stubbs is sorry Wintergreen refuses Korn closes the Clevinger argues that on the basketball recommending that the whore house baits 2. Yossarian causes one delay by “poisoning” food, another by moving nightmares because of the loyalty oath Bologna and hangs for the men and feels to help and lectures medical tents while Yossarian has no right court, he turns bombing activities Nately. Girl gets bored Late June Bologna the bombline. Has 32 missions. he is not scheduled crusade because it the morbid sign on Yossarian might be Yossarian on his duty the men are waiting to save his own life. himself into a recluse be placed under with argument and 3. Has a drunken row at the Officers Club with Colonel Korn. for the mission disrupted business. the closed medical the only sane person to be killed. to fly to Bologna. and sees no one. his own Special abandons Nately. to Bologna. tent. left. Services Command. Peckem is a smooth Yossarain meets Aarfy gets everything politician. Dreedle is a Yossarian throws 4. He sabotages intercom and makes pilot turn back. Mission is Wintergreen’s own Luciana, throws Hungry Joe tries to Orr has an engine wrong on the Bologna blunt outspoken man Anonymous – away Luciana’s a milk run. Nately is in Rome duty, as he sees it, away her address. Mcwatt is Yossarian’s take pictures of and his landing gear mission and doesn’t who drinks heavily planes are shot address and spends 40 missions 5. Yossarian goes back as a lead bombardier the next day, takes no courting his whore is to make a profit Sleeps with maid in pilot on this mission. Yossarian in bed shot out but crash hear when Yossarian and knows he is down on the mission the rest of the book evasive action, runs into Flak. and runs out of money. on his black market lime-colored panties with Luciana. lands safely. shouts at him to get missing out because to Bologna. looking and longing 6. After the mission; he goes to Rome on a rest leave and meets Luciana. operations. when he cannot out of the nose. he does not make for her. find her again. the right contacts. Milo justifies bombing 7. While he is away, Colonel raises missions to 40, 2nd Yossarian “runs” Milo bombs his He worries constantly Daneeka behaves Black sleeps with the squadron in terms Between Bologna into the hospital when he returns. own squadron when about the health and with courage when 45 missions Nately’s girl just of free enterprise and Avignon 8. Leaves hospital, flies six more missions, and goes back in when paid to do so by safety of his wife Milo bombs to taunt him. and the large profit missions are raised to 45. He now has 38 missions. the Germans. and children. the squadron. he has made. Milo has removed Daneeka takes care Nately’s whore likes Nately succumbs to Danby moans while Korn grandstands Snowden – 1. Yossarian moans in the briefing room. Nately tries to protect him. Dobbs panics, seizes the morphine from of Yossarian when Snowden is shot General Dreedle Captain Black and Yossarian’s mischief conducting briefing for General Dreedle “freezes to death” Avignon 2. Snowden is shot through the middle and dies. Yossarian treats him Dunbar moans back. controls, and plunges the first aid kit, and he emerges from through the middle brings his girlfriend to gives him some and moans in the and is ordered taken but earns his while Yossarian for the wrong wound. plane down into flak. there is nothing to the plane in a state and dies. the Avignon briefing. of the money Nately briefing room. outside and shot. contempt. attends him. ease Snowden’s pain. of shock. pays her. July Dreedle awards Mcwatt helps care Milo seeks Yossarian Chaplain spies Cathcart vows 1. Yossarian emerges from the plane naked. medals and sides for Yossarian when out during Snowden’s Yossarian naked in Both majors attend to punish Yossarian Snowden’s funeral 2. Goes naked to cemetery and sits in a tree. with Yossarian when he emerges from funeral for help in a tree and thinks it Snowden’s funeral. for standing naked 3. Stands in formation naked to receive the medal he won for Ferrara. Cathcart offers the plane. disposing of cotton. is a mystical vision. in formation. to punish him. 8/12 – Florence Clevinger Dunbar argues with Clevinger argues that Clevinger – plane flies 50 missions Shortly before Clevinger is lost, Yossarian argues with him captured disappears Clevinger that life Yossarian is crazy into cloud and is never August at the Officers Club about which one is crazy. 8/15 – Invasion in cloud is all. just before he is killed. seen again. of southern France Daneeka is a Snowden has already Clevinger’s plane had Hungry Joe keeps Milo trusts Yossarian The soldier in white Major Major is visited Nately’s whore is Dunbar is in hospital Orr is Yossarian’s Aarfy is Yossarian’s The Chaplain meets self-pitying been killed – Cathcart has raised Dreedle and Peckem Yossarian has Soldier in white – 8/23 – Paris liberated First chapter Yossarian enters Yossarian enters the hospital in despair over Clevinger’s death. disappeared in a cloud finishing missions and because he will not appears in the by CID man and bored with him First chapter as a friend and roommate and keeps incompetent lead Yossarian in the hypochondriac with Wintergreen as missions from 25 are feuding and norelationship with pronounced dead 8/23 – Russia begins here hospital Fakes a liver ailment. Censors letter with Washington Irving’s name. and he is given up keeps being returned steal from the country hospital ward and begins to sign papers and pays him little begins here. fellow malingerer. improving tent. navigator. hospital whom Yossarian mail clerk is already to 50. vying for power. Nurse Duckett yet. in the hospital. occupies Rumania for dead. to combat duty. he loves. is judged dead. “Washington Irving.” attention. is friendly. influential. Orr has started Neither General takes Men have to fly Nately is away Cathcart strives to Yossarian leaves to winterize the tent Milo is away enough notice of 50 missions, although He now has 44 missions. in Rome courting impress both Generals hospital while Yossarian buying figs. Cathcart to intervene headquarters requires his whore. favorably. was in the hospital. either way. only 40. 50 missions Daneeka refuses Major Major visited 1. Goes to Daneeka for help and is turned down. Chaplain has no Yossarian tries to help but says by second CID man 9/11 – Allied forces 2. Flies three more missions and has 47. authority to help; but to be grounded headquarters wants and puts him on move into Germany 3. Goes to Chaplain for help. they become friends. only 40 missions. the trail of the first. 1. Yossarian goes to Daneeka again with the idea of being judged crazy, Wintergreen refuses Milos advises him Missions raised but is turned down. He now has 48 missions. Explains Catch-22 to help and will turn 9/21 – Allies push to fly the 55 missions to 55 2. Goes to Wintergreen for help and is turned down, missions are in terms of Orr. against him if he past Pisa like a good soldier. September raised to 55 while he is away. gets into trouble. 55 missions Daneeka shares Both Colonels are Dobbs is no longer fit Major Major is sorry Yossarian keeps Goes to Major Major for help but is turned down. He tackles Major Major Yossarian’s fear of involved in “Plum to pilot a plane, but for Yossarian but there flying in a ditch in order to see him. He now has 51 missions. death and will take no Tomato” deals can’t get grounded. is nothing he can do. chances of any kind. with Milo. Dobbs comes to Summoned by Colonel Dr. Stubbs does 1. Yossarian tries Doc Daneeka again to no avail. He still has 51 missions Black taunts Nately Colonel wants prayers Yossarian with a plot to say prayers in ground the men in his 10/2 – Sigfried line Missions raised when missions are raised to 60. at the Officers Club in the breifing room to murder the Colonel. the briefing room. squadron, even though collapses, Russia to 66 2. Yossarian protects the Chaplain when the Colonel tries to throw about screwing in order to get into Yossarian declines. Complains in vain Korn puts them right occupes Bulgaria him out. his girl. Saturday Evening Post. about the 60 missions. back on combat duty. Daneeka again refuses Mcwatt is the pilot Aarfy is unable to hear Tries to see Major Colonel is terrified He is wounded in the leg on a milk run when Aarfy gets lost Nately is the copilot to ground Yossarian, Yossarian wounded and administers Yossarian’s screams Major on Yossarian’s by the mention and leads the planes over flak. on the mission. even though he has first aid. or see his blood behalf. of Yossarian’s name. been judged crazy. 1. Yossarian gooses Nurse Duckett anda love affair starts between them. Dobbs still wants Orr has to ditch on Milo has removed Chaplain seeks 60 missions 2. Refuses again to join Dobbs in the plot to murder the Colonel, Dunbar goes into the to kill the Colonel the second mission the gas cylinders Daneeka on Wintergreen sends Yossarian in Yossarian gooses 10/26 – Americans because he’s sure he will be sent home. hospital just to keep even though he has to Avignon but from the MaeWests Yossarian’s behalf the Chaplain away the hospital Nurse Duckett. approach Bologna 3. A psychiatrist finds him insane, but he is returned to combat and Yossarian company. only two more everyone survives to make ice cream and going to try without seeing him. a different man is sent home in his place. missions to fly. without injury. sodas for the officers. Wintergreen next. Orr invites Yossarian Dobbs has finished to fly with him. He is 60 missions and shot down on the Scheisskopf is Peckem steps up Yossarian continues flying missions. When Colonel volunteers for Cathcart volunteers Orr – ditches and Orr lost in combat is non repelled by mission to Bologna shipped overseas campaign against They become lovers. Bologna again, Yossarian goes to Dobbs and agrees to the murder plot. for Bologna again. is given up for lost. the idea of murdering and given up for lost to General Peckem. Dreedle. the Colonel. although everyone else in the plane survives. Colonels are not 1. Yossarian is distressed by the assignment to destroy a whole village Mcwatt forgives Black’s taunts cause concerned with Between Orr and in order to create a road block. Yossarian – Dunbar She tries to 65 missions Chaplain to doubt the road block. They Kid Sampson 2. Yossarian is ready to kill Mcwatt when Mcwatt buzzes with Yossarian turns surly and starts reform him. his wife’s fidelity. want a good aerial in the plane. to crack up. photograph. Daneeka is officially Daneeka, by refusing Kis Sampson killed - Mcwatt lets the others Uses these deaths She is on the beach Kid Sampson – cut Yossarian is on the beach with Nurse Duckett when Mcwatt’s plane “Dead,” when to get involved In 70 missions Mcwatt commits bail out, then flies into as an excuse to with him when in half. Mcwatt – cuts Kid Sampson in half. Mcwatt’s plane anything, has been suicide a mountain. raise missions to 70. Kid Sampson is killed. flies into mountain. crashes. “dead” all the time. As soon as Nately Aarfy does not go Dr. Stubbs is defying Nately’s whore gets 1. In Rome he looks for Luciana and is ready to fall in love with Nurse Nately rescues his Dobbs and Hungry gets his girl he Dunbar goes along along because he does group and Korn wants a good night’s sleep Mid-October Nately gets his girl Duckett. He is lonely and does not know what to do with himself. girl and guards her Joe go. Dobbs turns insufferably to help Nately. not want to get in bad to get rid of all and falls in love 2. He helps Nately rescue his girl from the higher-ranking officers. while she sleeps. threatens violence. bourgeoise and tries with anyone. flight surgeons. with him to reform everybody.

Nurse Duckett has begun to think of her Hungry Joe brings future. She wants to After Milo’s Thanksgiving Day party, Yossarian is awakened in terror Nately’s friends Milo gives a huge Even Chaplain enters Sgt. Knight fires November Dunbar goes berserk his camera hoping Nately’s whore is Warns Yossarian marry a doctor and has Yossarian breaks by machine gun fire and so angry he grabs his gun to go after the man come to the hospital banquet at which the ward pleased a machine gun Dunbar – he is (Thanksgiving in the hospital and to take pictures furious with Yossarian that they are going begun to disassociate Nately’s nose who fired the gun as a joke. When Nately tries to restrain him, as patients to be everyone gives he has at last had and shouts “Happy disappeared. Day) is disappeared. of Yossarian and for hitting him. to disappear Dunbar. herself from Yossarian he punches Nately so savagely that Nately is taken to the hospital. with him. thanks to him. the courage to sin. new year!” Nurse Duckett. whom she does not regard as a suitable husband. The Chaplain is taken Peckem replaces 12/16–1/20 – 1945 Milo persuades Dobbs causes to the cellar, tried, Wintergreen blames Dreedle. Then his Milo and Cathcart Battle Of The Bulge Has 70 missions. Nately is killed in Cathcart to raise Dr. Stubbs is Scheisskopf finds 70 missions finished mid-air collision and found guilty. Peckem when own reccomendation have each flown 3/7 – Remjen Bridge Yossarian pleads with Nately not to offer to fly more missions to remain mid-air crash over missions to 80, transferred to himself in charge – Nately killed with Nately’s plane Angrily, he decides Scheisskopf is put is adopted and no more than five captured overseas with his girl. Appeals to Milo to help Nately. La Spezia. knowing Nately will The Pacific. of everything. and is also killed. to go directly to in charge of them all. he finds himself missions. 4/1 – Russians enter fly them. General Dreedle. under Scheisskopf. Austria Nately’s whore becomes a symbol Black laughs when Nately’s whore tries Peckem sends Nurse Duckett is of his guilt and 5/3 – Berlin Falls. Yossarian refuses Yossarian is sent to Rome in a rest leave. Tells Nately’s whore about Flies Yossarian whorehouse is to stab Yossarain the Chaplain away embarrassed by responsibility for never Germans surrender to fly more missions his death. She tries to kill him. He escapes back to Corsica. back and forth. raided and girls are and begins her chase without seeing him. Yossarian’s stand. intervening in the in chased out. after him. injustices he knows exist everywhere. Milo urges him The other men side Aarfy rapes and Kid sister is adrift Old man – dies of Goes AWOL to Yossarian goes back to Rome to find and help the kid sister. piously to do his duty. with Yossarian murders the maid but in Rome and no one old age. Maid – “The Eternal City” He is arrested for being in Rome without a pass and returned. Deserts him to secretly but none 80 missions is allowed to go free. to help her. murdered by Aarfy. smuggle tobacco. will join him. The other men would be tricked by Colonels must deal Nately’s whore stabs Accepts Korn’s deal. Yossarian accepts the chance to become “one of the boys” in return Yossarian’s decision with Yossarian or Yossarian as he leaves Is stabbed. for being allowed to go home a hero. and induced to punish him. the office. continue flying. In making the decision to desert, Danby comes to Yossarian accepts persuade Yossarian the responsibility he Chaplain does not Yossarian has treated In the hospital he Yossarian cannot go along with the deal, even though it will mean Hungry Joe dies to go through with the Hungry Joe – dies now knows he has know what Yossarian Snowden for the repudiates the deal his life will be saved. Does not know what he will do. in his sleep. deal but is converted in his sleep. to the other men. should do. “wrong wound.” to Yossarian’s point As he says, he is not of view. running away from his responsibilities, but to them. Orr rows to Sweden Nurse Duckett helps Yossarian runs away Chaplain is delighted Danby aids him in Nately’s whore is December – Heads for Rome to try to save Nately’s kid sister, and then for Sweden, and gives Yossarian him escape because joyously when he and encouraged by escape and offers right behind Yossarian 1944 But does not expect to get there. Has 71 missions. the hope that anything she is eager to be rid learns Orr is safe Yossarian’s decision. money and advice. with a knife. is possible. of him.