147:, Chuck Cathcart is a group commander at the USAAF base in Pianosa and is obsessed with becoming a general. As such, he does whatever it takes to please his superiors, in particular by repeatedly raising the number of missions in a tour of duty beyond norms. Ironically, this provokes no reaction from the generals, who are apathetic to the war efforts, but becomes the bane of Yossarian's and Hungry Joe's lives. He is a 36-year-old man with short graying curly hair, a tall yet beefy build, extremely pale skin, and a host of self-confidence issues. He is described as mildly conceited, and yet is found to be constantly comparing himself to others, often finding himself displeased with the conclusions he reaches. Cathcart is also obsessed with forging and maintaining a public image of extreme masculinity, most likely due to his apparent insecurity.
413:β The commander of the USAAF base in Pianosa, Dreedle is a blunt and ill-tempered man. He is an archetypal no-nonsense military man who does not care what the men under his command do as long as they fight and die unquestioningly when given orders. Despite this, he is generally apathetic to the war effort (having lost all drive after he was made General and he found he had "nothing more to aim for") and now mostly busies himself with harassing his son-in-law, Colonel Moodus. He despises Moodus simply because he hates weddings and does not wish to attend another one. His arch-rival is General Peckem, head of Special Services in Rome; the two men frequently have their disputes mediated without their knowledge by the desk clerk, ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen.
498:β Havermeyer lives in the tent next to Yossarian's, and according to Colonel Cathcart he is "the best damn bombardier we've got." This was because he insists on flying his plane dead straight to, over, and past the target despite any anti-aircraft fire he receives. Yossarian despises him because of his insistence in putting his (Yossarian's) life at stake. He is also slightly unstable and enjoys shooting mice at night with the gun he stole from the dead man in Yossarian's tent. However, despite their love of duty, even Havermeyer begins to hate the constant raising of the number of missions. By the end he also reveals his main ambitions, to not embarrass his wife and kid and to join the reserves after the war.
553:β The pilot of Yossarian's plane, one of his closest friends and Nately's roommate as well. A young man who appears to be very calm and serene and whom Yossarian considers to be crazy because he remains sane during the war. He enjoys flying his plane low to scare Yossarian, which eventually leads to Yossarian choking him and threatening to murder him during one of their combat training sessions. After this, McWatt is sympathetic towards Yossarian and seems to realize that Yossarian might actually be going insane. McWatt accidentally kills Kid Sampson when flying too low and slicing him in half with a plane propeller, driving him to commit suicide by crashing his plane into a mountain.
272:, repeatedly gets lost on missions, and always smokes a pipe. Yossarian comments that Aarfy is just not intelligent enough to be afraid of the war. He befriends Nately in the hope of working for Nately's wealthy father after the war. Aarfy sees himself as moral and protects well-connected women from the sexual advances of other officers, but he ends up raping and murdering the innocent maid Michaela. When asked by Yossarian why he did not simply hire a prostitute, he repeats his common admonition that "Old Aarfy has never paid for it." He shows no remorse for these crimes until he begins to worry that he might be brought to justice for them.
517:(which, ironically, he was before the war, although none of his pictures developed correctly). He is the only pilot who consistently finished the required number of missions (but was forced to continue flying as his paperwork was always delayed until the flight limit was elevated) and has screaming nightmares until he's ordered back onto combat status. He is constantly triggered by loud or sudden noises, making Huple keep his watch in a sock due to the constant ticking and getting startled when McWatt purposefully snaps his cards. He enjoys randomly choosing diseases to worry about at will. He dies when he's suffocated by Huple's cat.
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Dunbar, and was sent overseas. He lives in a tent with McWatt next to
Havermeyer's tent. His most notable contribution in the book is his involvement with a whore, "Nately's Whore," who is for the most part uninterested in him until he saves her from a sleepless night with generals, thus giving her an opportunity to get some sleep. He is often filled with American optimism, shown by his desire to marry his whore and send her kid sister to a respected college in the United States. He is killed on a mission when Dobbs flies his plane into Nately's. Nately's Whore blames Yossarian and spends the rest of the book trying to murder him.
777:, while the other drains from his catheter. When the bottles are respectively empty and full, their roles are exchanged. Dunbar claims there is actually no one under the bandages. The other patients avoid him because they dislike the fact that he is worse off than they are. The Texan is the only patient who talks to him and tries to convince the others to do so. He eventually dies without anyone realizing. Later, a burn victim named Lieutenant Schmulker is admitted to the hospital with similar bandages; the other patients experience mass hysteria, convinced that the original Soldier in White has mysteriously returned.
403:β Major de Coverley has a terrifying visage in the Biblical tradition, such that men will do his desires without his even saying a word. No one dares ask his first name, and the exact nature of the Major's duties within the bomber group is uncertain. He is Major Major's executive officer, but at the squadron base in Pianosa his only official duties are pitching horseshoes, renting apartments for the soldiers on rest leave, and kidnapping Italian laborers to help around the base. He also rapidly put an end to Captain Black's "Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade" by demanding βgimme eatβ then demanding that they βgive
419:β Originally a healthy young man, the effects of excessive combat missions have shot Dobbs' nerves, and when the narration of the book begins he is emotionally unstable and physically spent. He is described as being one of the worst pilots in the corps and his mid-air panic leads him to snatch the controls of the plane away from Huple, leading to the death of Snowden. He plots to kill Colonel Cathcart but will only do it if Yossarian tells him it's a good idea, which Yossarian never does. He shares a tent with Kid Sampson. He accidentally collides with Nately's plane, killing both crews.
535:β Colonel Cathcart's intellectual assistant and right-hand man. Korn appears alongside Cathcart throughout the novel and it becomes clear to the reader that Korn does most of the thinking and most of the work for Cathcart, who only takes the credit. Korn is portrayed as much more relaxed and less ostentatious than his superior, but much more sadistic and cynical. Much like Cathcart he has ambitions for higher military ranks but chooses to be below Cathcart and remain outside the limelight so that, if something goes wrong, Cathcart will take the fall instead of him.
683:β An American Indian whose family was forced to move from wherever they settled because oil was always discovered. He is transferred to Pianosa after Wintergreen strikes an oil pipe and nearly drowns. In the army, he works as Captain Black's assistant. He jokingly threatens to slit Captain Flume's throat while he sleeps, which accidentally drives Flume to paranoid madness. After this, he becomes Doc Daneeka's tent mate and terrorizes him as well. During the Siege of Bologna, he decides that he will eventually die of pneumonia, which he ultimately does.
435:β An airman and fellow bombardier stationed at the same base as Yossarian, on the island of Pianosa. He and Yossarian seem to have similar personalities, and so they make fast friends. Like Yossarian, Dunbar's chief goal is to prolong his life to whatever extent possible, often by cultivating boredom. He frequently accompanies Yossarian in the hospital, faking injuries to stay out of combat like his friend does. He is later 'disappeared' by the army when he becomes rebellious and unstable.
693:, Wintergreen has been demoted so many times that he entertains hopes of becoming an ex-general. Due to his position in charge of mail distribution, he wields a great amount of power in the novel. By forging documents and destroying mail, he becomes more powerful than the generals. His main concern throughout the novel is humiliating General Peckem because he was the first person to have demoted him. He also frequently butts heads with Milo as they are both in the black market business.
326:, and he was as good at playing ping-pong as he was at everything else." Appleby's character appears to represent those who thrive to a certain extent within a bureaucratic system and feel threatened by others who do not play along as much as they would like them to. He follows regulations without question and does everything he is supposed to do, managing to succeed with minimal effort at whatever he does. He believes in God, the Motherhood, and the American Way of Life.
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facts but no passion. His optimistic view of the world causes
Yossarian to consider him to be a "dope," and he and Yossarian each believe the other to be crazy. Yossarian also comments that Clevinger crusades against bigotry by balking in its face, proving Clevinger to be an extremely submissive character. During cadets course he is brought to trial and found guilty on phony charges by Lt. Scheisskopf. His plane mysteriously vanishes in a cloud and he's never seen again.
504:β A fifteen-year-old pilot who lied about his age to get into the Army. He shares a tent with Hungry Joe on the wrong side of the railway tracks and is shy and nervous, but is a thoroughly idealistic patriot, which is why Yossarian feels sorry for him; he feels he'll probably die too young. He has a cat that constantly sleeps on Hungry Joe's face. He owns a wristwatch that Hungry Joe forces him to keep in a sock. He is the pilot flying when Snowden dies over Avignon.
129:. As he is extremely timid and terrified of authority, the chaplain is tormented throughout the novel by his rude, manipulative, atheist assistant, Corporal Whitcomb. Easily intimidated by the cruelty of others, the Chaplain is a kind, gentle, and sensitive man who worries constantly about his wife and children at home. He is described as a man of 32 years of age with tan hair, brown eyes, and a narrow, pale face. His sister is a Master Sergeant in the Marines.
565:β The poor, plain, simple-minded, hard-working young maid who works in the apartments where Yossarian and his unit stay while in Rome. She is a sweet and innocent girl who doesn't speak English and whom the enlisted men mostly leave alone, except when they mock her in English so she can't understand them. She is raped and murdered by Aarfy, who simply dismisses the murder as inconsequential because he's "good old Aarfy, who never pays for it".
465:β Captain Flume is the squadron's public relations officer, until he moves out of the trailer he shares with Chief White Halfoat after Halfoat jokingly threatens to slit Flume's throat open from ear to ear. He spends most of the book living like a hermit in the woods, which gradually drives him insane. By the end of the novel, Flume moves back into the trailer he shared with Halfoat after the latter starts dying of pneumonia.
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is disliked by most of the enlisted men in
Pianosa because he was promoted so suddenly, and he chooses to remain isolated from the other people at the base, letting Sergeant Towser handle the operations of the base. He doesn't allow people to see him in his office while he is in his office; they can only see him when he isn't there. He utilizes Yossarian's alias, Washington Irving, to shirk official document duties.
595:β A pompous, pretentious and highly delusional general who desperately wants to take over General Dreedle's post as the superior commanding officer of Pianosa. Because of this ambition, he has a vicious rivalry with Dreedle and constantly tries to undermine him and have him demoted. His attempts are mostly thwarted without his knowledge by desk clerk ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen, who enjoys making Peckem look foolish.
342:. He was thwarted in this by the appointment of Major Major to the position. Captain Black constantly mocks his fellow countrymen at the Pianosa airbase when they are faced by dangerous missions by telling them to "eat your liver." Since he is the camp's intelligence officer, he is not on combat duty and can therefore maintain his gleeful attitude to the men risking their lives in the air. Black is a paranoid
601:β Two captains in charge of squadron operations that are always mentioned in tandem and are in charge of organizing combat crews for missions. They are sympathetic towards Yossarian, despite his desire to avoid missions. Both are described as mild, soft-spoken men who are average in pretty much every aspect and yet love flying and so they assign themselves to every single mission.
577:β General Dreedle's son-in-law, whom the general hates and constantly tries to harass and have demoted. Moodus thinks Dreedle is a know-it-all that cannot take criticism. He is the only colonel that Cathcart trusts. He is also depicted as slightly heroic, correcting his father-in-law when the aforementioned ordered for Major Danby's execution, when even Cathcart and Korn wouldn't.
385:β The fighting group operations officer. An intellectual college professor with a passive and somewhat melancholic yet serene outlook on life who sees himself as a poor match for the armed services due to his lack of aggression. He briefs the airmen on upcoming missions and often acts as a mediator for disputes between enlisted men and as a confidant to most of the officers.
653:β The mess sergeant before Milo Minderbinder. He was demoted for purposely poisoning sweet potatoes with soap chips, giving the squadron diarrhea, which he did at Yossarian's request. Snark is now referred to as Milo's "first chef". He is described as "...an intellectual snob who felt he was twenty years ahead of his time and did not enjoy cooking down to the masses."
677:β An atheist who constantly antagonizes and looks to usurp Chaplain Tappman, his direct superior. He is openly rude and contemptuous, absolutely detests his seclusion in the woods, and is very easily offended. He is later promoted to sergeant by Cathcart after telling him about his idea with sending fake personalized letters to deceased soldiers families.
529:β Captain Black's despised assistant. He erroneously reports that Bologna has been captured by the Allies after Yossarian surreptitiously redraws the lines on the battle map. Kolodny is forced to sign hundreds of loyalty oaths in Black's name each day. During a Thanksgiving party, he drunkenly shoots himself in the leg while playing with his pistol.
783:- Two lieutenants present at the synchronization of the watches during Major Danby's briefing. After Dreedle commands for Major Danby to be taken out and shot, Cathcart turns to the lieutenants and commands them to do it. After Colonel Moodus corrects Dreedle, he orders the lieutenants to take Major Danby out of the tent in general.
541:β A man killed at the bombing of a bridge at Ferrara. Yossarian blames himself, as he ordered the planes back after they missed the first time. He was a skinny, harmless kid from Pennsylvania who only wanted to be liked. It is later revealed that his death was actually Aarfy's fault because he didn't accurately navigate them.
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that needs to be "brought down a peg or two." He is at constant odds with his wife's masochistic libido, as his severe love for parades leaves him too busy to pay any attention to her. Scheisskopf is an ambitious and humorless man who is absolutely in love with war and is only happy in life when the opposing side is losing.
235:' halfway through the novel after another crash-landing in the Mediterranean, but it later transpires that he has intentionally rowed to neutral Sweden to escape the war. At this point, Yossarian realizes that Orr's constant crashes have been rehearsals for the escape plan, which inspires Yossarian to finally flee the army.
459:- A patient staying in the same hospital where Yossarian is being treated for his leg wound for having a stone in his Salivary gland. He is easily pushed around by both Dunbar and Yossarian, who pull rank on him. Due to Major Sanderson getting Fortiori's official army record instead of Yossarian's, he is sent home instead.
583:β More frequently referred to as "the dead man in Yossarian's tent," Mudd was killed in action before officially joining the squadron. Due to the bureaucratic uncertainty over the status of Mudd, no one will accept responsibility for Mudd and his belongings, and Sergeant Towser refuses to accept the man existed at all.
429:β At the start of the novel Nurse Duckett does not like Yossarian; later, she has a relationship with him, jeopardizing her friendship with Nurse Cramer. She breaks off her affair with Yossarian when she decides to marry a doctor, and realizes she should not jeopardize her chances by carrying on openly with Yossarian.
671:β Major Major's assistant; he prevents anyone from seeing the Major while he is in his office, and only allows them in when the Major is gone. Due to Major Major's unwillingness to see anyone, Towser is the de facto head of the 256th squadron. Towser also holds no desire for a promotion or any interest in the war.
475:) β A delirious soldier who creates a panic in the hospital by shouting, "I see everything twice!" Yossarian imitates him (by seeing two fingers regardless of whether a doctor holds up one, two, or none) and later impersonates him when he dies. The soldier's family does not notice that Yossarian is not their son.
625:β Scheisskopf is always too busy planning parades to fulfill his wife's masochistic sexual fantasies. Instead, she sleeps with Scheisskopf's cadets, so they can all get revenge on her husband and she can get back at him for the lack of attention. She purports to be atheist but is actually a devout believer.
447:β Scheisskopf's wife's close friend. A lively βtartβ who has relations with all the men in the company once as she refuses to sleep with anyone she finds to be mediocre again. Thus, she sleeps with Yossarian once and he spends a small part of the novel pining after her since he knows she doesn't want him.
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Yossarian and is wildly apathetic towards Nately until he allows her to get some sleep. She has a young sister whom Nately is determined to send to college. After Nately dies, Nately's whore blames Yossarian for his fate and spends
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Yossarian used on a whim. He enters the hospital, posing as a patient, then comes down with pneumonia and becomes a real patient. The second CID man is sent to investigate the
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Pianosa, who was named Major Major Major by his father as a joke – passing up the lesser possibilities of "Drum Major, Minor Major, Sergeant Major, or C Sharp Major" – and was later made a Major by an IBM machine with a sense of humor. He
789:β A patriotic soldier who keeps the men from staying in the medical ward to hide out from the war by being overly friendly. He is in the ward when Dunbar and Yossarian enter, attempting to escape their duties in their respective squadrons, but they are eventually chased out by his pleasant demeanor.
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Yossarian and Clevinger, and takes a particular dislike to Clevinger. Even though Clevinger is just as serious about parades as Scheisskopf, and his ideas help the squadron win multiple parades, Scheisskopf still considers him a "wise guy", and someone
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Nately's family originally enlisted him to serve in the USAAF, believing the war would be over by the time he finished his training and that he would mingle with "gentlemen." Therefore, Nately could gain the pride of enlisting without actually having to fight. Instead, he mingled with
Yossarian and
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Yossarian's crew. When their aircraft is hit by anti-aircraft fire and Snowden is hit, Yossarian bandages his visible leg wound, but misses a fatal wound hidden by his clothing. This incident is generally referred to in the novel as "the death over Avignon". Yossarian
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and a friend of Yossarian. Doc Daneeka's main motivation is for his own welfare, whether that be making money or protecting his own life. He generally forgets his moral duty as a physician except in the most extreme of circumstances. Doc Daneeka resents the military, both for drafting him and for
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453:- The doctor in charge of the hospital Nurse Duckett, Cramer, and Major Sanderson work. He yells at both Yossarian and Dunbar after they pinched Nurse Duckett's butt. He is taken aback when Dunbar mentions Yossarian having fish dreams, and so calls in Major Sanderson to help the aforementioned.
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man, who frequently causes panic by starting rumors or orchestrating events that either keep him out of direct battle or somehow usurp authority. Examples of these exploits include poisoning the mess hall with bath soap, accepting an award while naked, and altering a map so a mission will be
613:β A young soldier described as having "...an angular, comical face with arched eyebrows and a scrawny blond mustache". He is killed by the propeller of McWatt's airplane. The event drives McWatt to suicide which in turn causes Doc Daneeka's bureaucratic "death". He shares a tent with Dobbs.
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continued use of "Washington Irving"'s name, which is now at the hands of Major Major. He goes undercover as a pilot but blows his cover by telling everyone who he is. The two investigators end up pursuing each other instead of making any actual headway in their cases.
356:β Before the war, Cargill was a successful, though completely untalented, marketing executive who was well known for being completely terrible at his job. In the Air Force, Colonel Cargill provided his legendary lack of skills as General Peckem's troubleshooter.
379:β Nurse Duckett's best friend. She is a shapely, pretty, young girl who refuses to have any relations with the men at all, so Yossarian dislikes her. After Nurse Duckett starts a relationship with Yossarian, puritanical Nurse Cramer stops speaking to her.
767:β A 107-year-old man who lives in the brothel frequented by Nately. He sides with whoever is in power and mocks Nately's idealism. He reminds Nately uncomfortably of his own father for the reason that the old man is absolutely nothing like his father.
717:β Allegedly a nurse, she follows General Dreedle wherever he goes. She is a very attractive woman and Dreedle keeps her around to torment his son-in-law, Colonel Moodus, hoping to catch him in an adulterous situation for which he can punish him.
547:β A woman whom Yossarian briefly dates in Rome and whom he spends a great deal of the second half of the book looking for, without success. She refuses to marry Yossarian because she believes he's crazy for wanting to marry her at all.
391:β Doc Daneeka's wife. When the doctor is mistakenly declared dead after listing himself fraudulently on a flight manifest for a doomed flight, she finds herself suddenly rich and widowed, and moves away, leaving no forwarding address.
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solution. They are extremely efficient and have a list of steps on determining if someone is sick so that there will be certainty when diagnosing. Daneeka hates them because they refuse to declare him ill so that he can go home.
559:β One of the judges presiding over the Action Board during Clevinger's trial. He is extremely cowardly and strongly resembles Clevinger in many ways, inevitably leading to him being shipped away as well at the end of the trial.
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338:β The squadron's intelligence officer. Because of the lack of risk involved in not flying missions, Captain Black wanted to take over Major Duluth's position as squadron commander when the Major was killed over
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170:. Afraid of flying, he often has himself falsely listed as being aboard flights; this practice comes back to bite him when McWatt crashes a plane Daneeka is supposedly aboard and he is pronounced dead.
268:) is the navigator in Yossarian's B-25 bomber (but only when Yossarian is flying in the lead ship β hence Aarfy's sporadic appearances in the air in the novel). He is oblivious to incoming
523:β The turret gunner on Yossarian's plane; he accidentally begins a panic prior to the Bologna operation when he brings extra flak jackets, causing everyone to think the target is deadly.
197:, as he has no allegiance to any country, person, or principle unless it generates profit. Milo even begins contracting missions for the Germans, fighting on both sides in the battle at
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350:, but out of personal spite prevents Major Major from taking one. He deliberately seeks out Nately's Whore on his visits to Rome and brags about their trysts to Nately.
659:β The doctor in Dunbar's squadron who grounds any pilot who requests it. He falls into an existential crisis after Colonel Korn shuts down his medical tents.
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332:β The officer in charge of the squadron's motor vehicles. He was forced to sign loyalty oaths every time a truck was driven down to the airfield.
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127:Kenosha, Wisconsin
33:in the 1961 novel
31:list of characters
988:
987:
965:Milo Minderbinder
902:Clevinger's Trial
804:Catch-22, a novel
605:Corporal Popinjay
401:Major de Coverley
371:Lieutenant Coombs
233:missing in action
205:Lieutenant Nately
180:Milo Minderbinder
174:Milo Minderbinder
16:(Redirected from
1013:
945:Chaplain Tappman
917:Catch-22 (logic)
845:
838:
831:
822:
821:
817:
807:
753:The new recruits
623:Mrs. Scheisskopf
569:Captain Aardvark
527:Corporal Kolodny
451:Colonel Ferredge
427:
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306:Other characters
260:Captain Aardvark
254:Captain Aardvark
139:Colonel Cathcart
133:Colonel Cathcart
111:Chaplain Tappman
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1020:
1016:
1015:
1014:
1012:
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990:
989:
984:
921:
859:
852:Joseph Heller's
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796:
760:
748:
735:
700:
669:Sergeant Towser
665:
631:
617:Major Sanderson
581:Lieutenant Mudd
571:
521:Sergeant Knight
492:
424:
423:
411:General Dreedle
397:
354:Colonel Cargill
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168:Pacific theater
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92:Army Air Forces
68:and its sequel
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940:Capt. Aardvark
937:
935:John Yossarian
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738:
728:Nately's Whore
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715:Dreedle's girl
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651:Corporal Snark
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587:Colonel Nevers
584:
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575:Colonel Moodus
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483:gentian violet
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226:Orr (Catch-22)
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163:flight surgeon
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125:minister from
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109:
55:
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18:General Peckem
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950:Col. Cathcart
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832:
827:
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815:
811:
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557:Major Metcalf
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463:Captain Flume
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348:loyalty oaths
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336:Captain Black
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43:Joseph Heller
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32:
27:
19:
926:
912:(miniseries)
909:
901:
893:
885:
879:Closing Time
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686:
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644:Closing Time
642:
638:
635:Sammy Singer
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478:
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468:
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456:
450:
444:
439:Major Duluth
438:
432:
422:
416:
410:
404:
400:
389:Mrs. Daneeka
388:
382:
377:Nurse Cramer
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120:
100:World War II
75:
71:Closing Time
69:
65:
63:
35:
34:
30:
28:
26:
980:Scheisskopf
955:Doc Daneeka
663:Doc Daneeka
629:Scheisskopf
490:Doc Daneeka
479:Gus and Wes
395:Doc Daneeka
383:Major Danby
297:Scheisskopf
157:Doc Daneeka
151:Doc Daneeka
995:Categories
927:Characters
794:References
706:The first
657:Dr. Stubbs
508:Hungry Joe
195:capitalism
186:Lieutenant
123:Anabaptist
107:canceled.
787:The Texan
405:everybody
360:Clevinger
324:ping-pong
191:syndicate
60:Yossarian
54:Yossarian
910:Catch-22
894:Catch-22
886:Catch-22
872:Catch-22
864:Catch-22
856:Catch-22
639:Catch-22
563:Michaela
515:magazine
469:Giuseppe
445:Dori Duz
104:Assyrian
76:Catch-22
66:Catch-22
37:Catch-22
545:Luciana
340:Perugia
312:Appleby
239:Snowden
199:Orvieto
145:colonel
143:A full
96:Pianosa
82:(later
80:Captain
970:Nately
904:(play)
896:(play)
888:(film)
814:271160
812:
551:McWatt
211:Nately
184:First
539:Kraft
502:Huple
417:Dobbs
320:craps
266:Aarfy
84:Major
810:OCLC
724:her.
691:AWOL
513:Life
364:foil
316:Iowa
270:flak
975:Orr
708:CID
220:Orr
41:by
997::
775:IV
45:.
844:e
837:t
830:v
816:.
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