Rank/Rate: Lieutenant

Service Number: O-123556

Birth Date: January 4, 1919

From: Wartrace, Tennessee

Decorations: Purple Heart

Submarine: USS S-44 (SS-155)

Loss Date: October 7, 1943

Location: Off Paramushiru, Northern Kuriles

Circumstances: Sunk by Japanese destroyer

Remarks: Photo courtesy of Doug Bewall, RMCM USN Ret.

NavSource, Submarine Photo Archive for the USS S-44 (SS-155)

On Eternal Patrol list of men lost on the USS S-44 (SS-155)

Find a Grave Memorial: Lt James Thomas Stephenson (Honolulu Memorial). James Stephenson has a cenotaph at the family plot of Hollywood Cemetery in Wartrace, Tennessee.