4-D War in Tralfamadore

Kurt Vonnegut introduced a World War II that had time travelers in chapter two of "Slaughter-House five". Or at least one. Billy Pilgrim is a senile man who claims being kidnapped by aliens in a flying saucer from a planet called "Tralfamadore". This man admired them because of the way they saw life and death and because they saw in four dimensions. He lives his life jumping through time and he acts in different times of his life or simply time traveling. Pilgrim went senile in a plane accident he had in which he hurt his head pretty badly and since then he began to divulge his story of the aliens everywhere. Long before Tralfamadorians appeared in Billy Pilgrim"s life he fought for the American army in World War II in December of 1944, near the end of the war. After the Battle of Bulge Billy found himself with three other survivors, one of them was Roland Weary. Weary was somewhat schizophrenic or insane and enjoyed beating up people after making them believe he was nice. During the cold winter Weary and Pilgrim where ditched by the other scouts because Pilgrim was ill and had been left behind and as the crazy soldier beat Billy because of his rage, they where captured by some Germans. So it goes.

The adventure of Billy Pilgrim is a very curious one, even without the aliens its full of adventures and stories to tell. The way Billie's life and/or the way Vonnegut changes the story through "time traveling", give the story a unique pacing and a very interesting character. If everything were chronological probably it wouldn't be as interesting as it is and it would change the character completely. I don't have very clear if these characters are based on people Kurt Vonnegut met during war or if he invented these stories to complement his over all story but they are weird in one way or another. For example, Ronald Weary was mad at Billy because he never told him anything interesting while Weary would talk to him about torturing devices and his father's collection of them. I am not sure if I have met a senile person or not, but a friend once told me a woman I had met was senile. This woman was hysterical with my friends and me and said she threatened us to call the police because supposedly we where in her house and that we weren't letting her grandsons sleep. It wasn't her house, her grandsons where sleeping fine, and one of the persons I was with, was the son of the owner of the house. People can get mad or other people can get them mad but this was something different, like Tralfamadorian style. I really don't think Billy Pilgrim or Ronald Weary are based on Kurt Vonnegut so where does he fit into this story?