A Chronology of Catch-22

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Catch-22: Antiheroic Antinovel by Stephen W. Potts

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 25 missions	Arrives in Pianosa with Appleby and Kraft. Splendid Atabrine Insurrection.
30 missions	Yossarian has 23 missions.	Col. Nevers killed. Cathcart arrives, raises number of missions.
March:	Yossarian goes over bridge twice. Ferrara Promoted to captain.	Kraft killed. Milo appointed mess officer.
April 35 missions	Yossarian and Orr accompany 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 poisons squadron, sabotages intercom. With, 32 missions after Bologna, meets Luciana in Rome.	Major Major becomes recluse. Major _____ de Coverley goes to Florence and disappears.
40 missions	Yossarian returns from Rome to hospital.
45 missions	Reaches 38 missions before entering hospital again.	Milo bombs squadron.
July: Avignon	Yossarian moans during briefing. Snowden killed. Yossarian naked in tree during funeral. Receives medal for Ferrara.
August 50 missions	Yossarian in hospital again. Has 44 missions. Meets chaplain (chapter 1).	Clevinger disappears inside cloud. Soldier in white.
Late August		Cathcart calls chaplain in to discuss the Saturday Evening Post.
September 55 missions	At 44 and 48 missions, Yossarian goes to Daneeka, and at 51 missions goes to Major Major, but neither will ground him.
60 missions	Yossarian wounded in thigh. 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
Mid-October	Yossarian helps Nately rescue his whore from generals.	Nately's whore falls in love with him.
November	On Thanksgiving Yossarian breaks Nately's nose. With Dunbar, visits Nately in hospital.	Soldier in white comes back. Dunbar goes crazy and is "disappeared."
	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.