Current NCTC Commander Ana Franco, right, presents first NCTC Commander J.B. Leap with a commemorative baseball cap during NCTC's 50th anniversary ceremony. GORDON JACKSON/SPECIAL TO THE SUN HERALD In ...

Two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the little-known head of the Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks made an urgent personnel request that had a decisive impact on the outcome of World War II.