Henry Chester Bruton (15 March 1905 – 15 August 1992[1]) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy, becoming Director of Naval Communications in the 1950s.

He subsequently served aboard the battleships California and Mississippi within the Pacific Fleet before received orders to report for instruction at the Naval Submarine Base New London, Connecticut in June 1929.

[3] Upon the completion of the training in January 1930, Bruton was assigned submarine S-47 under lieutenant Dorrance K. Day and took part in peacetime patrol cruises in the Pacific Ocean.

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.

[2] Later, Bruton was named Chief of Staff of the Submarine Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet and Director of the Legislative Division of the Judge Advocate General's Corps.