By June 1943, VMSB-241 was fighting large scale operations against Japanese installations in the northern Solomon Islands. The group moved to Efate in November 1943 and remained there until June 1944.
1stLt Joyce M. Sanders, pilot, and Cpl James P. Griffin, gunner/radioman, missing in action, last seen plunging smoking into water 50 yds east of Credner Islands, St. George Channel. Lt. Sanders was shot down at a perilously low altitude strafing either a gunboat or destroyer which was firing at our retiring planes.

SANDERS, Joyce M, 1STLT, O-021757, USMC, from Oklahoma, location Solomon Islands, date of loss February 12, 1944 + SANDERS, Joyce M, First Lieutenant, O-021757, USMC, from Oklahoma, Manila American Cemetery + SANDERS, Joyce Madison, 21757, VMSB-241, MAG-21, 2nd MAW, FMF, New Britain, February 13, 1945, killed in action + SANDERS, Joyce M., 1st Lieutenant, USMCR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marsh T. Sandrs, 410 S. 10th St., Kingfisher, Okla

Body Not Recovered

Joyce M Sanders