Press Kit
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Sandra Warren is a writer with published works in multiple genres
including historical non-fiction, biography, children’s, poetry, gifted
education, children’s, reader’s theater and how to. In addition, she
has written educational journal and newspaper articles on a variety
of subjects, optioned two screenplays and produced an audio CD,
DVD and three educational videos. She lives and writes in a log
home in the Carolina mountains.
We Bought A WWII Bomber: The Untold Story of a Michigan High
School, a B-17 Bomber & The Blue Ridge Parkway!
ISBN 9781880175064
“Buy a Bomber” Campaign Posters
The Dedication & Christening - April 6, 1943
The Bomber Queen & Court with the Pilot
“The Spirit of South High” B-17 Bomber off to war!
"Writing in simple, unadorned terms of small-town America during
wartime, Warren, a writer from the South High class of 1962,
captures the patriotism and community spirit that sparked the
students to canvass door to door."
"This bit of local history is a reminder of unheralded resolve and
determination by students during WWII."
Publishers Weekly/BookLife
2016 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist!
2017 Michigan State History Award for Outstanding
Michigan History Publication - Private Printing Category.
She Started It All (middle-grade historical fiction.)
ISBN 978-1723432231
“Told in two points of view, SHE STARTED IT ALL brings the story of
the "forgotten" bomber- a plane purchased with money raised by
Michigan students during WWII--into Joe Gerrard and Sandi Howard's
eighth grade classroom.”
Carol Baldwin, Author & Writing
Educator
October 1, 2018
A Wayside Historical Marker was dedicated
on The Blue Ridge Parkway, Milepost 176.2
at Mabry’s Mill, in Meadows of Dan, Virginia,
honoring the extraordinary accomplishment
of the 1943-1948 Michigan students from
South High School, the Captain and Crew of
the B-17 bomber, “The Spirit of South High,”
and the good people of Meadows of Dan and
Willis, Virginia, who came to the aid of the
pilots.
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April 7, 2019 A duplicate historical marker
was placed at South High School in Grand
Rapids, Michigan, the school where the
1943-1948 students initiated $375,000 in War
Bond sales to buy, name and dedicate a
B-17 Flying Fortress Bomber, in honor of their
extraordinary accomplishment. Alumni from the
school, that closed in 1968, still meet monthly.
Arthur Blackport, the young 8th grade boy who
initiated the school’s involvement in the “Buy a
Bomber” Funding drive, is pictured here, 76-years
later, here along with another South High School
classmate.
South High School in now the Gerald R. Ford Job
Corp Center. President Ford is a 1931 graduate!