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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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# AVIATION SUPPLY DEPOT Naval Supply Center Pearl Harbor, T. H.
## 19 November 1946
From: LT Delbert Clement NEWHOUSE, USN (177283)
To: Chief of Naval Personnel
Attn: Pers-3122
Via: Supply Officer in Command
Subj: Retention on Active Duty in Commissioned Status
Ref: {a} AlNav 588-46 {b} My Acceptance and Oath of Office, 25 September 1946
1. It is requested that I be retained on active duty in a commissioned status until 30 June 1948 or longer.
2. By reference (b) I accepted a permanent appointment as Chief Photographer, USN, and acknowledged receipt of notice of appointment to the rank of Lieutenant in the Navy for temporary service.
## D. C. NEWHOUSE
P16-3/00
NT4-93(3:KAG:n1w)
Serial: 4763
19 NOV 1946
From: Supply Officer in Command
To: Chief of Naval Personnel
Attn; Pers-3122
1. Forwarded, recommending approval.
## K. A. GRAHN
cc: Com-14 (Officer Personnel Section) SOinC NSC PH
FINISHED FILE
PERS 82232
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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.