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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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In reply address not the signer of this letter, but NAVY DEPARTMENT Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Department, Wash. 25, D.C. WASHINGTON 25, D.C. Refer to No. 177283 Pers-3161-JMJ-1A ? August 1946 From: The Chief of Naval Personnel. To: Lieutenant Delbert C. NEW HOUSE, USN, Aviation Supply Depot, Philadelphia, Pa. Via: Supply Officer in Command. Subject: Change of duty. When directed by the Supply Officer in Command, Aviation Supply Depot, you will regard yourself detached from duty at the Aviation Supply Depot, Philadelphia, Pa., and from such other duty as may have been assigned you; will proceed to San Francisco, Calif., and report to the Commandant, Twelfth Naval District, for first available transportation to Pearl Harbor, T.H., and upon arrival report to the Commandant, Fourteenth Naval District, for duty at the Naval Aviation Supply Depot, Pearl Harbor, T.H., in connection with photography. 2. You are hereby authorized to delay for a period of five days in reporting at San Francisco, Calif., in compliance with these orders such delay to count as leave. 3. Keep the Bureau of Naval Personnel advised of your address. CC: /s/ LOUIS DENFELD LOUIS DENFELD F.W.B. ComFour. ComTwelve. CNO (OP512). ComFourteen. ComServPac (2). SupOfComd, NavAviationSupDep, Peqr1 Harbor, T.H. 11909 Stamped on face of Basic Letter: Certified to be a True Copy U.S. Naval Aviation Supply Depot, Philadelphia, Pa. Newhouse 19 AUG 1946 19 AUG 1946 Advanced ___months pay $300.00 which has been charged on my rolls. /s/ W.D. WRIGHT, Lt. (jg) (SC) USN Disbursing Officer
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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.