![]() ![]() On June 6, 1944, called "D-day," Allied forces, including the United States, entered a massive invasion of western France. The reader should be aware of a few significant dates. ![]() ![]() Like the setting of this novel, the characters, too, are fictitious." The setting for Heller's war, however, was very real. As Heller points out in a prefatory note, "It is very small and obviously could not accommodate all of the actions described. In the novel, Yossarian's squadron is on Pianosa, a real but tiny island east of Corsica and a few miles south of Elba. Most of the action in Catch-22 is based on Joseph Heller's experiences as a young officer and bombardier stationed on Corsica, an island off the west coast of Italy, with the Army Air Forces in 1944. naval base on the south coast of Oahu in Hawaii, near Honolulu. The United States of America entered World War II in December 1941, immediately after a Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. ![]()
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