We bought a WWII bomber : the untold story of a Michigan high school, a B-17 bomber & the Blue Ridge Parkway!
Publication Information
[North Carolina] : Sandra Warren, [2015]
Physical Description
xiii, 141 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary
During World War II, a group of high school students in Grand Rapids, Michigan persuaded their school and town to help them raise money to buy two planes and several landing craft. This is the previously unwritten account of their patriotism and of the heroic crew on the bomber they bought.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 > Citizen participation.
- Savings bonds > United States > Marketing.
- Spirit of South High (Bomber)
- Aircraft accidents > Virginia.
- Airplane crash survival > Virginia.
- Grand Rapids (Mich.) > History > World War, 1939-1945.
- United States > History > 1933-1945.
- United States > Social conditions > 1933-1945.
- South High School (Grand Rapids, Mich.)