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Billy Pilgrim is born
Billy Pilgrim is born in Ilium, NY -
Billy is assigned as a Chaplin's assistant
Billy is on military maneuvers in South Carolina when his father dies after being accidentally shot by a friend while hunting -
Billy joins an infantry regiment fighting in Luxembourg
After the regiment is decimated by the German army during the Battle of the Bulge, he and three others, including Roland Weary, find themselves behind German lines. Billy and Weary are captured after three days of wandering and fighting against each other. -
Billy and other American prisoners are relocated to Eastern Germany
The prisoners including Billy were forced to march through Germany to boxcars that were transporting them to another prisoner camp in Eastern Germany -
All of the prisoners are shipped to Dresden, Germany
After traveling for 10 days they end up in Dresden, Germany and Billy along with the other American Prisoners are placed in building five, which was previously a slaughterhouse -
Dresden Bombing
The group of prisoners hide in a bomb shelter that was thicker than the rest of the bomb shelters, and Billy and the prisoners that were in that shelter survived -
Billy is discharged from the military
After surviving the Dresden bombing Billy is found and honorably discharged -
Billy checks himself into a mental institution for veterans
Billy voluntarily commits himself into a veterans' hospital ward for nonviolent mental patients. In the hospital, he meets Eliot Rosewater, who introduces him to Kilgore Trout's science-fiction novels -
Billy makes his first trip to Trafalmadore
A flying saucer from Tralfamadore kidnaps Billy on his daughter Barbara's wedding night -
Billy was in a Plane Crash
Billy was the only survivor in the plane crash, the plane was carrying optometrists to an optometry convention -
Billy´s Death
illy is assassinated in Chicago by a hit man hired by Paul Lazzaro, a fellow soldier during the war; Lazzaro had promised Roland Weary that he would kill Billy to avenge Weary's claim that Billy caused his capture by the Germans after their three days of wandering
