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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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NAVPERS 393 (Rsv. December 1942) # BENEFICIARY SLIP Name NEWHOUSE, Delbert Clement (Name in full, surname to the left) Serial No. 177283 (File number, not signal number) Station Naval Aviation Supply Depot (Name) Philadelphia 11, Penna. 19 May 1945 (Place) (Date) Under the provisions of the Act approved May 22, 1928, as extended by the Act of March 17, 1941, directing the payment of 6 months' pay to the widow, children, or dependent relative of any of the personnel on the active list of the Regular Navy, or on the retired list when on active duty, or of any of the personnel of the Naval Reserve called or ordered into active naval service by the Federal Government for extended naval service in excess of 30 days, who dies of wounds or disease not the result of his or her own misconduct, I give below the name and address of my wife and that of each of my children: (See instructions on reverse side) Mrs. Norma Isobel Newhouse (Full name of wife; if not married, so state) 6841 Oxford Ave., Philadelphia 11, Pa. (Address of wife) Delbert Carroll Newhouse 28 June 1938 (Full name of child; if none, so state) (Date of birth) Same as wife. (Address of child) Anne Lisbet Newhouse 14 March 1940 (Full name of child) (Date of birth) Same as wife. 家家家家家家家家家家 (Full name of child) (Date of birth) (Address of child) In the event of my leaving no widow or child or of their decease before payment is made, I then designate as my beneficiary under the said act the following relative, my Mother (Relationship) Mrs. Edith May Newhouse Richter (Name in full) P.O. Box 225, Garibaldi, Oregon (Address) * If the beneficiary named above is your father, mother, brother, or sister, you need not fill in these three lines. If the beneficiary is a more distant relative, such as a grandparent, state briefly wherein dependency exists, such as "allotments registered," "monthly contributions by Government check," indicating amounts and regularity thereof. [OVER] 16-82308-2
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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.