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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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# ITEMIZED SCHEDULE OF TRAVEL AND OTHER EXPENSES 1. Date and hour of departure from official headquarters ___ ___ 2. Give duty status on first day of voucher period: *Arrived at ... on ..., 19..., for temporary duty for approximate period Approximate date of return to official headquarters ..., 19... 3. †State authorized per diem in lieu of subsistence, $... 4. †State authorized allowance for actual subsistence expenses: Not to exceed $___ per day. 5. Where for traveler's personal convenience or through the taking of leave there is interruption of travel, deviation from the direct route, or where traveler delays at a place other than post of duty, a statement showing the facts should appear on the voucher. *If authority provides for travel to more than one point, time of arrival and departure from each should be stated in the body of the account in chronological order. If more than one rate of allowance is authorized, full statement of application of each rate must be given in some convenient place on this voucher. DATE CHARACTER OF EXPENDITURE (To be itemized by the day and fully explained) SUBVOU. NO. AMOUNT NOTATIONS SUBSISTENCE OTHER (Payee must not use this column) Reimbursement for cost of transportation of my dependents wife and children on permanent change of duty from Aviation Supply Depot, Phila Pa. to Aviation Supply Depot, P. E. I certify that Norman I. Newhouse is my lawful wife, and that Delbert Carroll Newhouse, and Anne Lisbet Newhouse, age 8 and 6 years, male and female born June 28, 1938 and March 14, 1940 are my legitimate children. I, Delbert G. Newhouse certify that Delbert Carroll Newhouse and Anne Lisbet Newhouse are my legitimate children, will be 9 and 7 years of age at next birthday, and are members of my household; that said children are not possessed of property or income adequate for their support and education; that they are not the beneficiary, either directly or through others, of any trust or estate entitling their income adequate for their support and education; that said children are in fact now and at all times solely dependent on me; that in all respects I maintain the children at my own expense and from my own resources and do not reimbursed therefor directly or indirectly in any manner or form whatsoever, and that evidence of the children's dependency upon me and my maintenance of them have been filed with my pay accounts and is hereby made a part hereof. I certify that the location of my dependents named herein on August 7, 1946 the date1 received my orders was Philadelphia, Pa. Travel of dependents mined herein was made from Phila Pa. to San Francisco, California.
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