Crisp County GaArchives News.....PFC.JOHN SANDERS AWARDED PURPLE HEART MEDAL October 7, 1942 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: WYLIE SHEPPARD JR. http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007303 April 25, 2011, 2:10 pm CORDELE DISPATCH October 7, 1942 CORDELE FRIENDS WILL BE INTERESTED TO LNOW THAT PFC. JOHN SANDERS ,U.S.M.C. ,SON OF MRS. BELLE SANDERS OF THIS CITY, WAS RECENTLY AWARDED THE PURPLE HEART MEDAL FOR WOUNDS RECEIVED AT GUADACANAL ON OCTOBER 7,1942. PFC SANDERS IS NOW STATIONED AT THE MARINR BARRACKS NAVAL AIR STATION AT GLYNCO,GA. THE PRESENTATION WAS MADE THERE BY MAJOR JAMEA ACKERMAN, U.S.M.C. PFC SANDERS WHO HAS BEEN IN SERVICE SINCE JANAUARY 1942, WAS AT HOME ON FURLOUGH FOR SOME WEEKS FOLLOWING HIS RETURN TO THE STARES LAST YEAR. Additional Comments: WOUNDED CRISP WW 11 VET RECEIVING MEDAL File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/crisp/newspapers/pfcjohns2992nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb