A Chronology of Catch-22

DATE

YOSSARIAN

OTHERS

1942

In basic training at Lowery Field,

Colorado. Discovers hospital.

Wintergreen demoted, digging ditches.

1943

Cadet training in Santa Ana.

Spends Thanksgiving with
Scheisskopf's wife.

Clevinger's trial

Early 1944 Arrives in Pianosa with Appleby

25 missions and Kraft. Splendid Atabrine
Insurrection.

30 missions Yossarian has 23 missions.

Col. Nevers killed. Cathcart arrives, raises

number of missions.

March:

Kraft killed. Milo appointed mess officer.

Yossarian goes over bridge twice.

Ferrara Promoted to captain.

April
Yossarian and Orr accompany
35 missions Milo on business flight("Milo the
Mayor").

Milo forms international cartel and buys

Egyptian cotton crop. Major Major
appointed squadron commander.

May

Capt. Black begins Loyalty Oath Crusade.

Milo arranges Orvieto deal. Mudd's death.

June 4:
Allies enter
Rome

Yossarian accompanies Nately to

Rome.

Nately falls in love. Returning from Rome,

Major _____ de Coverley ends Loyalty Oath

Crusade.

Late June:
Bologna

Yossarian moves bombline and

Major Major becomes recluse. Major _____
poisons squadron, sabotages
de Coverley goes to Florence and
intercom. With, 32 missions after disappears.
Bologna, meets Luciana in Rome.

40 missions Yossarian returns from Rome to

hospital.

45 missions Reaches 38 missions before

entering hospital again.

July:
Avignon

Milo bombs squadron.

Yossarian moans during briefing.

Snowden killed. Yossarian naked
in tree during funeral. Receives
medal for Ferrara.

August
Yossarian in hospital again. Has 44 Clevinger disappears inside cloud. Soldier in
50 missions missions. Meets chaplain (chapter white.
1).

Late August

September At 44 and 48 missions, Yossarian

55 missions goes to Daneeka, and at 51 to
Major Major, but neither will
ground him.

60 missions Yossarian wounded in thigh.

Cathcart calls chaplain in to discuss the

Saturday Evening Post.

Interviewed by Major Sanderson.

Begins affair with Nurse Duckett.

Cathcart volunteers group for Bologna

again. Orr vanishes.

Yossarian and Dunbar don't want

to bomb Italian village. Yossarian
threatens McWatt.

McWatt kills Kid Sampson then flies into

mountain. Daneeka's "death."

65 missions
70 missions

MidOctober

Yossarian helps Nately rescue his

whore from generals.

Nately's whore falls in love with him.

November

On Thanksgiving Yossarian breaks Soldier in white comes back. Dunbar goes

Nately's nose. With Dunbar, visits crazy and is "disappeared."
Nately in hospital.

Yossarian finishes 70 missions.

December
80 missions

Milo arranges with Cathcart to have other

men fly in his name. Nately volunteers for
his 7Ist mission and dies. Peckem replaces
Dreedle. Scheisskopf in charge.

Yossarian refuses to fly more

missions.
Goes AWOL in Rome ("The
Eternal City"). Korn's deal.
Stabbed by Nately's Whore.
Decides to desert

Chaplain's trial.
Aarfy kills maid.
Orr reaches Sweden.