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MINUTE MANSergeant Prank (Cookie) Kozik.jtt former manager o£ the Summit nine-, * of Adams, writes again from his I ^ army air force base In the island of: a Corsica, furnishing some interesting n Information regarding the boys from w home whom he has met since reach-1 e: ing his new post. His letter follows::a Corsica. June 19, 1944.: c Dear Stuart: : oYour most welcome letters arrived,h several days ago. Today is my first jc. real opportunity to answer. It sureih does my heart good to hear from, ti you. I get the Transcript from an- j b other Adams boy, Eddie Richards, ii I noticed in one of your columns a a letter you printed from Larry Pin- c sonneault who is over here on this, d island. He mentioned my name in j t it but as yet wc haven't met. There:, arc quite a number of Adams baysiC here but haven't seen them all yet. j g I have met to date, Lieut Frankjt Wotkowicz. Andy Wiodyka. Eddie -v Riciiards and Floyd. The others here j« that I must make it a point to K look up are Piijsonncault. Francis I r Mahar. Joe Cote and Joe Ordyna. : Jincidentally Joe Ordyna just came f on this island a few dn.vs ngo. I met 1 film in Africa about five months ; back. X met Harry Daniels of Che-, ‘ shire here, he told me that Harry;1 Bass! of Cheshire is here also. In! J. the nearby ack-aek outfit is a North i“ Adams boy by the name of Stone I, 1 must look up some day, he used | * to drive taxi in North Adams, I was:-1 told.I was surprised as hel! to get a letter from Chappie'’ Ciempa. He's, in Hawaii now after spending a, long time in the Aleutians. Frankie rt Moderski's brother Phil is out there j with him. Incidentally my kid; brother Walter who is at Parris' Island writes that he sees Frank j Moderski often. ‘My old pal Bruno Trzc’iRski went ‘ i,o Chinn. I was sort of hoping he'd come to this theater. Bruno and I ‘ have been together a long time be- . fore getting split up. ,I read Ben Point's letter In j..ur j column, quite sometime ago. I’m glfidij to hear he made lieutenant ,lt;j.g.).| Andy wiodyka. the kid out here is j, his brother-in-law.Spooks and Stanley, my two brothers said they met ‘‘Zuau” Zol-tek in England. I know Zuzu’1 is in on tire invasion of France but I • don't know about my brother. You see Zuzu” is still with that Crack • First Division” that rolled through North Africa, Sicily and Salerno. 1I am glad, that Adams high got | off to a good stRrt in baseball this;, season. I sure hope they keep it up. ■ • I hope we can ail be back for next, year’s baseball games. Prospects are-1 pretty bright now. What do you think?We've only been on this island several weeks but we really got. things going in a hurry. We built a . nice dub and T do mean nice. We lacked entertainment and a place to spend our leisure moments so we lost no lime in doing something about It. It's a real fine place with that old rustic touch to it. good fixtures. a wonderful bar with all sorts: of phoney drinks mo American liquor).The opening night was one for, all of us to remember. Several high j ranking officers attended our open-! ing and we were complimented for, having the nicest club on the island.: We had two bands playing for us,: not one but two. One-was the Royal . Air Force band and the other a colored band composed of soldiers: from an engineering regiment. It, was a real Jam Session,” the RAF! band was tops with Its swingy lunes \ while the colored boys did okay1 with their spiritual numbers as well as some of never to bo forgotten Stephen Faster Ballads.” You can imagine toe time we had. Nothing's impossible these days, not for a regular G. I. Joe. Perhaps all that is hard lo believe, but it's really soRemember me lo all and thanks again lor your letters.Yours In Sports.Cookie.”
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North Adams Transcript
North Adams, Massachusetts, US
Fri, Jun 30, 1944
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