As of July 1942, then Major. Saunders was serving as Assistant Flight Test Officer; Station Legal Officer; Aide to the White House, Marine Aviation Detachment, NAS, Anacostia, Washington, D.C..Service Company, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, Washington, D.C.

In 1927, temporary duties, he served Hq. & Hq. Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Regiment, China Composite Expeditionary Force, China. Previously in Basic School program. Served as the Communications Officer. Sailed to China aboard the S.S. President Grant. In May 1927, with Hq.&Hq. Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Regiment, Provisional Regiment, 3rd Brigade, N.S. Olongapo, P.I.. Returned to Schools Detachment, Marine Barracks, Philadelphia Navy Yard in May 1927. In June, returned to China: Hq&Hq Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Regiment, 3rd Brigade, Camp Woodrow Wilson, Tientsin, China. Continuous duty in China at other sites until January 1928.

Aviation training began in August 1928. VJ Squadron, 6M. Aircraft Squadrons, E.C.E.F.M.B. Quantico, Virginia. Rank of 2nd Lt.. Then to NAS Pensacola, Florida in September 1928.

In 1931-32, 2nd Lt/1st Lt.. Naval Aviation Officer, VJ Squadron, 6M., A.S. Marine Brigade, Managua, Nicaragua

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On 2 February 1942, Major Saunders married Alice V. Kelley, of Arlington, Virginia, in Alexandria, Virginia.

Saunders, William Dabney, Jr., LtCol