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Local Mariner Lt Sanders Receives Marine Commission
Lt Thomas Lee Sanders son of Mr and Mrs John S Sanders Route 2 Amarillo has been assigned to active duty with the United States Marines after completing the reserve officers training school at Quantico Virginia He was commissioned eight weeks ago and has been in the post graduate course since then Lt Rankin Eisenberg who helped capture Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands has returned to the Hawaiian Islands He has served in the Pacific since July 1943 first overseas with the Army in the Aleutians then in the South Pacific He attended Amarillo College before entering service and has been in the service since January 1940 He received his commission at Fort Benning Georgia in October 1942.
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Thomas Lee Sanders
John S. Sanders
Route 2
Amarillo
United States Marines
Reserve Officers Training School
Quantico
Rankin Eisenberg
Kwajalein Atoll
Marshall Islands
Hawaiian Islands
Eisenberg
Pacific
Aleutians
South Pacific
Amarillo College
Fort Benning
John H. Eisenberg
Italy
Amarillo High School
University of Texas
Iona Eisenberg
West
Ninth Avenue