That's the way the Ball Bounces. From the Milton Cook Collection of: Mess Pass, ID card, PX ration cards, passes out off base (London, Manchester), 7 x small photos of Cook and the base, several editions of 'Ardee News' from 1945 – newspaper of USAAF replacement depots in the UK, one copy of the Yarnfield Yank (end of war yearbook for Yarnfield)?, two USAAF issue books from base library, one MP arm band, one copy of Cook's autobiography 'That's The Way The Ball Bounces', one copy of official USAAF booklet 'Target Germany' pub. 1943.

November 2015. Record for American Air Museum item. Item to be added to Library collection

MIlton Cook was a Military Policeman with 1257th MP company at Yarnfield, Stone, Staffordshire at an Eighth Air Force replacement depot (i.e. a base where new arrivals awaited allocation to BG and FG and also where troops returning to USA were processed). Has written an autobiography (held on file) sub-titled 'a nonplussed soldiers mundane exploits in WW2'! He seems to have spent most of his time either guarding the depot or escorting AWOL GIs across England.