80-G-62011:  Mrs. James A. Dempsey, Sponsor of USS Dempsey (DE 26), christening and launching the destroyer escort at Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts, April 22, 1943.  Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald, USN, is in the background. Mrs. Dempsey was the mother of ship’s namesake, Lieutenant Junior Grade Dempsey who was killed in the Battle of Savo Island, August 9, 1942, when his ship USS Vincennes (CA 44) was sunk.  (10/6/2015).
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