PHILADELPHIA – September 26, 1963 – Rear Admiral Leo L. Pace, who was aboard the first American submarine to enter the Japanese Sea during World War II, died Tuesday at Philadelphia Naval Hospital.  He was 65 years old.

Admiral Pace, a native of Guide Rock, Nebraska, received the Legion of Merit from President Franklin D. Roosevelt.  He was graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, in 1921, and spent his entire naval career aboard submarines.

PACE, LEO LEANDER
R/ADM U.S.N.
DATE OF BIRTH: 08/21/1898
DATE OF DEATH: 09/24/1963
BURIED AT: SECTION 34  SITE 160-A
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

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