Browse By

Start Over Main contributor Saunders, Jim Genres Oral histories Unit Collections

1. Jim Saunders: Interview (27:45)

Date:
2009-01-22
Main contributors:
Saunders, Jim
Summary:
Jim Saunders, U.S. Army, Vietnam (Interviewed Jan. 22, 2009) ​For 17 years Jim and Doris Saunders owned and operated Saunders Sausage Shop in South College Station. Since they sold the business in 1983, they’ve enjoyed retirement, much of it viewed out the windows of their well-traveled RV. Jim and Doris met after his World War II service in the 1st Cavalry F Troop; stationed in the Philippines near the war’s end. He was on one of the ships at Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945 when the peace treaty was signed on the USS Missouri and it was his band of brothers in F Company that served as General Douglas MacArthur’s honor guard on his march into Tokyo six days later.