Robert Sanders

Killed In Action

Personal Information

Birthplace: Abilene, Kansas

Service Information

Branch of Service: Army

Unit: Company A, 312th Engineer Combat Battalion, 87th Infantry Division

Theater of Operation: European

Enlisted / Commissioned: Feb 2, 1943

Highest Rank: SGT

Military Honors: Purple Heart

Honored By: Heritage Center Museum and Dickinson County Historical Society, and the Eisenhower Foundation

Biography

Sgt. Robert Dean Sanders was killed in action shortly after arriving in Europe, during the Ardennes Campaign at the Battle of the Bulge. Sgt. Sanders’ location at the time of death was Libramont-Chevigny, Arrondissement de Neufchâteau, Luxembourg, Belgium. He was one of twenty-four soldiers killed by an explosion of mines at Libramont, Belgium. Robert Dean Sanders is a brother to WWII veterans Sgt. John L. Sanders and PFC Marvin R. Sanders.