Christopher Columbus Sanders, Jr. was the son of Christopher C. and Addie Sanders. He attended Hominy High School in Hominy, OK, and enlisted in the U.S. Navy Reserve on 25 October 1944.

On 19 March 1945, Seaman Apprentice (then called Seaman 2nd Class) Sanders was serving on the aircraft carrier USS Franklin when it was hit by an enemy air attack off Okinawa, Ryukyu, in the East China Sea. He was killed in that attack. His body was not recovered. His name is included on the Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial in Honolulu, HI.

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