Entering the National War College at Washington, D.C., in August 1943, he graduated the following June. Assigned to the 14th Air Force at Orlando Field, Fla., General Sanders was named deputy commander, becoming assistant chief of staff for operations of the 14th there in March 1948. Transferred to Air Force headquarters at Washington, D.C., that June, he was chief of the Fighter Branch, Requirements Division, and two months later was appointed chief of the Air Defense Requirements Division. General Sanders assumed the post of the vice commander of Continental Air Command, Mitchel Air Force Base, N.Y. in September 1957. He is rated a command pilot.
Family follows the Presbyterian faith.
Opinions, Tastes and Evaluations Has no fetishes or phobias about food, clothing or other worldly items. For travel, prefers Europe to any other area by far. For settling, likes desert country. Believes a gentleman is proved by his word alone, which is better than any contract. The general has made his own way in life, having lost his parents when he was young.