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Thank Heavens a very hard-pressed Admiral Nimitz quickly learned to trust the Rochefort/Layton duo that brought him this very restricted, highly secret information which some others on his staff at first were prone to put down as guesswork — even as dangerous guesswork.
When he was chosen, President Roosevelt had said, “Tell Nimitz to get the hell out to Pearl and stay there until the war is won.” Commander Edwin Thomas Layton was the Fleet Intelligence Officer. His colleagues had regarded him as alarmist.
Jun 3, 2016 · On the morning of the battle, as the initial American reports sighting the Japanese force began to trickle in, Nimitz remarked to Layton with a smile, “well, you were only five minutes, five degrees, and five miles out.”
Jun 27, 2019 · In a showdown with Admiral Chester Nimitz (Woody Harrelson), Layton calls Pearl Harbor "the greatest intelligence failure in American history" (up until that moment, obviously) and predicts...
“It just lights up,” said Layton, as though “somebody let in the sun by raising a window shade. His smile and his blue eyes would go right through you.” Nimitz had successfully concealed his anxiety, but now he made not the slightest attempt to hide his relief. He handed the dispatch to Layton.
U.S. Navy signals intelligence intercepted a radio message including information about Yamamoto's travel schedule through the Solomon Islands in early 1943. Layton was the one who suggested to Nimitz a special mission to shoot down Yamamoto's plane.
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Jan 7, 2020 · When Nimitz received the PBY's report in his operations room he could not resist tweaking his intelligence officer; turning to Layton he dryly commented, "Well, you were only five minutes, five degrees, and five miles out."
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