Chapter 28: Dobbs

In Chapter 28 of Catch-22, Yossarian visits Dobbs in the hospital and asks him to help kill Colonel Cathcart. However, Dobbs has already completed his required number of missions and is waiting to go home, so he no longer has a motive to kill the colonel. Orr, who has crashed his plane again and is now tinkering with a stove in their tent, tells Yossarian he should practice crash landing by flying a mission with him. The two men also discuss women and Orr offers to explain why a naked girl was hitting him with her shoe in Rome, but Yossarian declines to hear the explanation. Orr's plane crashes into the water again on his next mission and his survival raft floats in the opposite direction of the others, causing him to disappear.