Edwin T. Layton was a Japanese linguist with past experience in OP-20-G; he became the Fleet Intelligence Officer. He met Commander Joseph J Rockefort who was a cryptologist and they soon became friends. Layton and Rochefort were old friends from sea duty and from language training in Japan. He was a great veteran during the battle because of the militaristic information he decrypted." hen there was a person -- a very special person -- who did not serve in the Dungeon with us but who deserves a very high ranking place in the list of five expanded to make it six. He, luckily, worked above ground in fresh Hawaiian air. He was another human dynamo, sharp, quick thinking, fast acting, intuitive, fast to comprehend, and extremely aggressive. In prior assignments he had been a Tokyo Japanese language student and later a code breaker."
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz was a five star admiral of the U.S. Navy and the leading commander for the Americans during the Battle of Coral Sea. He was in command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and Commander in Chief. He was the leading U.S. Navy authority in submarines as well as the Bureau of Navigation in 1939. He served as Chief of the Naval Opreations for 2 years and was a great leader."That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves."