James Monroe Sanderfur was born on September 18, 1922 in Indiana. Corporal Sanderfur entered service November 30, 1942, and received his training for the Army Medical Corps at Fort Bliss, Tex. In 1944, he was transferred to Camp Campbell, Ky., and later that year was sent overseas, to served with a medical detachment of the Ninth Army in Europe.

On May 23, 1945, he was a passenger on Flight C-46D (4-77507) which was taking 41 American soldiers that were ill, injured, or repatriated prisoners of war to hospitals in the Paris, France area and was then eventually going to take them all back to the United States. This flight occurred after Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. However this C-46, for unknown reasons, developed a fire in one of it's two engines and crashed near the village of Taillefontaine, near Paris. All men aboard were killed in the crash. T5 Sanderfur died at the age of 22 and is now buried in the Beech Grove Cemetery, Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana, USA.

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