A Wing and a Prayer: The Eighth Air Force Series, Book Four (Volume 4)
A native of New York Mills, New York, Cheryl Pula is a retired Reference Librarian with a B.S. degree in Russian Language and a minor in German.  She went back to school and received a Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she is a lifetime member of the University of Michigan Alumni Association. Her first library position was as the supervisor of the Lending Department at the Mid-York Library System in Utica, where she performed all the reference and research work for the system’s 43 member libraries.  In 1988, Pula was awarded the New York Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Award. She served on the Board of Trustees of the New York Mills Public Library.  A founding member of the New York Mills Historical Society, serving as its first president in the late 1970’s, Cheryl is currently the village historian of New York Mills and President of The History Club, which she founded in Whitesboro in 1995. She is a member of the American Legion Auxiliary of the Arthur Moran Post #66 in Camden, New York, as well as an honorary member of the  Memphis Belle Memorial Association of Memphis, Tennessee.  Cheryl was elected “Historian of the Year” by the Oneida County Historian’s Association in 2006. In 2010, she was listed in Who’s Who In America. Cheryl is one of the co-authors of Ethnic Utica, published in 1994 by Utica College. With her brother, she is co-author and co-editor of a book on the Civil War regiments from Oneida County, which was published by the Eugene Nassar Ethnic Studies Department of Utica College in November 2010 entitled, With Courage and Honor: Oneida County’s Role in the Civil War. She is a contributing author, co-editor and served as proofreader for The Polish-American Encyclopedia, published by McFarland Publishers in January 2011. For her work on the Encyclopedia, she was awarded the Polish-American Historical Society’s Distinguished Achievement Award in January 2012. She is also the author of the series of novels about Eighth Air Force B-17 bomber crews in World War II England. The first book in the series is,  The Children’s Crusade, published October 2011 by Whitehall Publishing.