įor this action, he was awarded a Navy Cross. Īs submarine commander of the USS-37, he sank the first enemy destroyer in World War II on February 8, 1942. He died, aged 70, on July 9, 1979, of congestive heart and kidney failure at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia. James Charles Dempsey (Aug– July 9, 1979), was a decorated submarine commander during World War II who reached the rank of Rear Admiral in the United States Navy.
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