Henry C. Bruton

Henry Chester Bruton (15 February 1905 – 15 August 1992) was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, becoming Director of Naval Communications in the 1950s. For actions during World War II he was awarded the Navy Cross three times and the Legion of Merit twice. He received the Legion of Merit twice more for contributions to the US Cold War effort in the 1950s, retiring in 1960.

Bruton was born in Belleville, Arkansas in 1905. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1926, and in the 1930s studied electrical engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School and the University of California, Berkeley, receiving a master's degree from the latter. He later also graduated in law from the George Washington University Law School, becoming a member of the Order of the Coif.

Bruton's first assignments were aboard the USS California (BB-44) and USS Mississippi (BB-41).

During World War II, he first commanded the USS Greenling (SS-213). While in this command, Bruton was three times awarded the Navy Cross for his command of the Greenling in four wartime patrols, in which it sank 75,000 tons of shipping, including a destroyer attacking it. The Greenling was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation, and Bruton was named a submarine division commander in 1943.

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