PRIVATE FIRST
CLASS WILLIAM T. SAUNDERS was born in New Jersey in 1914 to William and
Ada Saunders, who had come north from South Carolina. His father worked
as a cook in a canning factory, and later as a farmer. William T.
Saunders had left school to do farm work by April of 1930. In the late
1910s and early 1920s the family lived on Blue Anchor Road in Winslow
Township. They had moved to Old Egg Harbor Road at Brooklyn-Cedarbrook
Road in Winslow Township by April of 1930. William T. Saunders was
unmarried when he was inducted into the United
States Army at Camden NJ on March 8, 1942.
Private
Saunders went overseas with the 366th Infantry Regiment, 92nd Infantry
Division. He was reported as missing in action in Italy during February
of 1945. A finding of death was issued for him on February 11, 1946.
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