Meanwhile, Nurse Duckett occasionally beds Yossarian. Lieutenant Nately falls for a prostitute, Major Danby delivers goofy pep talks before every bomb run and Captain Orr keeps crashing at sea. Milo Minderbinder concocts elaborate black market schemes while crazed Captain 'Aarfy' Aardvark commits murder to silence a girl he raped. Trapped by this convoluted logic, Yossarian watches as individuals in the squadron resort to unusual means to cope Lt. The person had to wait in the waiting room until Major Major Major was gone, then the visitor could go right in. Major Major Major, the squadron's operations officer, is promoted to a squadron commander without ever having flown in a plane, and refuses to see anyone in his office while he is in, instructing Sergeant Towser that people can see him when he's out. The bomber squadron is populated by many additional comically strange characters. Milo Minderbinder, who rapidly progresses from squadron supply officer to a capitalistic tycoon involved in black-market money-making schemes. He shows up at a medal ceremony naked, and later morosely sits naked in a tree, where he is visited by Lt.

After Snowden's death, Yossarian temporarily refuses to wear his uniform, which Snowden bled on. Yossarian is haunted, in several recurring flashbacks during the film, by the bloody death of Snowden, the young turret gunner on his B-25. Yet, if an airman would refuse to fly more missions, this would indicate that he is sane, which would mean that he would be fit to fly the missions, basically an impossible 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' situation. Catch-22, as explained by Doc Daneeka, the squadron flight surgeon: An airman would have to be crazy to fly more missions, and if he were crazy he would be unfit to fly. While most crews are rotated out after twenty-five, the minimum number of missions for this base is eventually raised to an unobtainable eighty missions a figure resulting from Colonel Cathcart's craving for publicity, primarily a mention in the nationally syndicated Saturday Evening Post magazine. Along with his squadron members, Yossarian is committed to flying dangerous missions, but after watching friends die, he seeks a means of escape.įutilely appealing to his commanding officer, Colonel Cathcart, who continually increases the number of missions required to rotate home before anyone can reach it, Yossarian learns that even a mental breakdown is no release when Doc Daneeka explains the 'Catch-22' the Army Air Corps employs. Army Air Force B-25 bombardier, is stationed on the Mediterranean base on Pianosa during World War II. Plane crash from the film taken by a person on the setĬaptain John Yossarian, a U.S.

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