We Bought a Wwii Bomber : : the Untold Story of a Michigan High School, a B-17 Bomber & the Blue Ridge Parkway!
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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.
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PUBLISHED
[North Carolina] : Sandra Warren, [2015]
Year Published: 2015
Description: xiii, 141 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781880175064
1880175061
SUBJECTS
South High School (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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 -- 1933-1945.
United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.