Clipping from an unknown source, shared by Find A Grave member Joyce Crockett:
Lt. Lewis Sanders, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Sanders, was recently awarded the Gold Star, Navy Cross and Distinguished Flying Cross for service in the Pacific. The Gold Star was awarded for his participation in aerial flights as a pilot of a carrier based torpedo plane and leader of his division between August 3 and October 13, 1944 in the vicinity of Guam, the Palau Islands, Mindanao and Formosa. The Distinguished Flying Cross was awarded for his heroism in torpedoing enemy shipping on October 19, 1944, scoring hits on two enemy cargo ships. On October 25, 1944 he led his squadron in a torpedo attack on an enemy carrier task group in the Philippine Sea. In spite of the fact that he was forced to fly close to protecting ships and subjected to intense antiaircraft fire he dropped his torpedo at low altitude and scored a direct and damaging hit on an enemy aircraft carrier. For this heroic action he was awarded the Navy Cross. Lt. Sanders is now taking a post graduate course in aeronautical engineering at the Naval Academy in Annapolis.
Lt. Lewis Sanders, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Sanders, was recently awarded the Gold Star, Navy Cross and Distinguished Flying Cross for service in the Pacific. The Gold Star was awarded for his participation in aerial flights as a pilot of a carrier based torpedo plane and leader of his division between August 3 and October 13, 1944 in the vicinity of Guam, the Palau Islands, Mindanao and Formosa. The Distinguished Flying Cross was awarded for his heroism in torpedoing enemy shipping on October 19, 1944, scoring hits on two enemy cargo ships. On October 25, 1944 he led his squadron in a torpedo attack on an enemy carrier task group in the Philippine Sea. In spite of the fact that he was forced to fly close to protecting ships and subjected to intense antiaircraft fire he dropped his torpedo at low altitude and scored a direct and damaging hit on an enemy aircraft carrier. For this heroic action he was awarded the Navy Cross. Lt. Sanders is now taking a post graduate course in aeronautical engineering at the Naval Academy in Annapolis.
Clipping from an unknown source, shared by Find A Grave member Joyce Crockett:
Lt. Lewis Sanders, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Sanders, was recently awarded the Gold Star, Navy Cross and Distinguished Flying Cross for service in the Pacific. The Gold Star was awarded for his participation in aerial flights as a pilot of a carrier based torpedo plane and leader of his division between August 3 and October 13, 1944 in the vicinity of Guam, the Palau Islands, Mindanao and Formosa. The Distinguished Flying Cross was awarded for his heroism in torpedoing enemy shipping on October 19, 1944, scoring hits on two enemy cargo ships. On October 25, 1944 he led his squadron in a torpedo attack on an enemy carrier task group in the Philippine Sea. In spite of the fact that he was forced to fly close to protecting ships and subjected to intense antiaircraft fire he dropped his torpedo at low altitude and scored a direct and damaging hit on an enemy aircraft carrier. For this heroic action he was awarded the Navy Cross. Lt. Sanders is now taking a post graduate course in aeronautical engineering at the Naval Academy in Annapolis.
Lt. Lewis Sanders, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Sanders, was recently awarded the Gold Star, Navy Cross and Distinguished Flying Cross for service in the Pacific. The Gold Star was awarded for his participation in aerial flights as a pilot of a carrier based torpedo plane and leader of his division between August 3 and October 13, 1944 in the vicinity of Guam, the Palau Islands, Mindanao and Formosa. The Distinguished Flying Cross was awarded for his heroism in torpedoing enemy shipping on October 19, 1944, scoring hits on two enemy cargo ships. On October 25, 1944 he led his squadron in a torpedo attack on an enemy carrier task group in the Philippine Sea. In spite of the fact that he was forced to fly close to protecting ships and subjected to intense antiaircraft fire he dropped his torpedo at low altitude and scored a direct and damaging hit on an enemy aircraft carrier. For this heroic action he was awarded the Navy Cross. Lt. Sanders is now taking a post graduate course in aeronautical engineering at the Naval Academy in Annapolis.
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