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This 1957 U.S. Navy personnel file was released under the U.S. Department of War name. It covers Chief Photographer Delbert Clement Newhouse, CWO-4, USN. It holds Records of Emergency Data from 1955 to 1957, a 2 May 1957 request that changed his home of record to Pensacola, Florida, and vouchers for his dependents' travel. It also includes fitness reports from his time as Photographic Officer at the U.S. Naval Base at Santa Elena Bay, Ecuador, and with the Fifteenth Naval District in 1942 and 1943. The file contains no UFO material.
From the source:Release of 2026-09-18 Incident: 5/2/57, N/A. This file contains the final personnel record of U.S. Navy Chief Warrant Officer Delbert C. Newhouse, who left naval service as a Chief Warrant Officer 4, then the highest Warrant Officer grade. In July 1952, Newhouse recorded 16mm motion-picture film near Tremonton, Utah; the film later became the subject of a Project Blue Book investigation. Project Blue Book was the U.S. Air Force program active from 1952 to 1969 that investigated the nature and origin of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). In addition to documenting routine assignments and training, the file records Newhouse’s career progression as a Photographer’s Mate, a Navy enlisted specialty responsible for photography and related imaging work. Project Blue Book investigators characterized Newhouse as an expert photographer based on his naval experience.
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5 December 1949. From: The Chief of Naval Personnel. To: LT Delbert E. NEW HOUSE, USN, Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department. Via: The Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics. Subject: Change of duty. C-2 1. When directed by your commanding officer, on or after 31 December 1949, upon the termination of your temporary ap- pointment by the Secretary of the Navy on 31 December 1949, you will regard yourself detached from duty in the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department, and from such other duty as may have been assigned you; will report to the Commanding Officer, Naval Photographic Center, Naval Air Station, Anacostia, Washington, D.C., for duty. 2. You are hereby authorized to delay for a period of ten days (provided no excess leave involved) in reporting in compliance with these orders, such delay to count as leave. 3. Keep the Bureau of Naval Personnel and your new station advised of your address. Enc1: (HW) A. Termination of temporary appointment. CC: CNO (OP-54). CO., NavPhotographicCen. NAS, Wash., D. C. ComPRNC. J. W. ROPER 017761 Jacket copy "QUAL" Pers-311s 124556 311s4 161270 3118-F 148200 82212 31B14 Upon rewritin, forward to Buffers a copy of these orders, (Staff Corps Officers an additional copy to command Bureau) via new Commanding Instruments with all environments. 321 311G
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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 585 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.