Catch-22 Characters: - Robbins' English



Catch-22 Characters:

Cpt. Aardvaark (Aarfy):

Appleby:

Cpt. Black:

Col. Cargill:

Col. Cathcart:

Chaplain:

Clevinger:

Nurse Cramer:

Major Danby:

Dobbs:

Doc Daneeka:

Dori Duz:

General Dreedle:

Nurse Duckett:

Dunbar:

Cpt. Flume:

Fortiori:

Gus & Wes:

Chief Halfoat:

Havermeyer:

Hungry Joe:

Huple:

Kid Sampson:

Kid Sister:

Lt. Col. Korn:

Kraft:

Luciana:

Col. Moodus:

Maj. Maj. Maj. Maj:

McWatt:

Lt. Minderbender:

Mudd:

Lt. Nately:

Nately’s Whore:

Old Man in Rome:

Orr:

Gen. Peckem:

Cpts. Piltchard & Wren:

Major Sanderson:

Lt. Scheisskopf:

Mrs. Scheissopf:

Corp. Snark:

The Soldier in White:

Snowden:

Soldier who Saw Everything Twice:

Stubbs:

Corp. Whitcomb:

Wintergreen:

Yossarrian:

Catch-22 Setting

The time of Catch-22 is late 1944 during World War II. The main setting is the island of Pianosa, near Italy. World War II battles occurred both in Europe and in the Pacific. In 1943 the Allies (Great Britain, the Soviet Union, France, and the United States) were concentrating in Europe on freeing the large areas controlled by Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and other Axis powers. An Allied invasion force from North Africa landed in Sicily in July 1943. British and American troops defeated Italian forces and gained control of southern Italy, but winter weather and mountainous terrain delayed their advance. It was June 1944 before they took Rome, and August before they took Florence. German troops, meanwhile, had become entrenched in northern Italy. Allied tactics turned to bombing from the air, with American bombers based on Corsica and in southern Italy.

This is the setting of Catch-22- late 1944, with General Dreedle's command post on the island of Corsica, General Peckem established in Rome, ex- P.F.C. Wintergreen's mail room in the city of Florence, and the rest of the major characters stationed at an airfield on the island of Pianosa. The United States Air Force did not become a separate military branch until after World War II, so the characters belong to what was called the Army Air Forces. Their mission is to bomb Italian cities under German control. Some countries remained neutral throughout World War II- two that are important in Catch-22, as places where a man could wait out the war, are Sweden and Switzerland.

Pianosa is a real island eight miles southwest of Elba, between Corsica and Italy, but it's too small for all that occurs there in Catch-22. You are seeing a fictionalized Pianosa. Flashbacks also take you to training bases in Colorado and California, and to a mission over Avignon in southern France. Several other scenes occur on Corsica and in Florence or Rome. Flights cover the Mediterranean and Near East. Always, however, the action returns to Pianosa.

Military Ranks:

1) General of the Army *****  7) Captain

2) General****  8) First Lieutenant

3) Lieutenant General***  9) Second Lieutenant

4) Major General**  10) Warrant Officers

5) Brigadier General* 11) Sergeants (noncommissioned officers)

6) Colonel  12) Enlisted ranks

7) Lieutenant Colonel 13) Private

8) Major

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