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Billy Pilgrim is born in Ilium, NY
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Billy is on military maneuvers in South Carolina when his father dies after being accidentally shot by a friend while hunting
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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.
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The prisoners including Billy were forced to march through Germany to boxcars that were transporting them to another prisoner camp in Eastern Germany
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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
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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
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After surviving the Dresden bombing Billy is found and honorably discharged
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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
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A flying saucer from Tralfamadore kidnaps Billy on his daughter Barbara's wedding night
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Billy was the only survivor in the plane crash, the plane was carrying optometrists to an optometry convention
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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
