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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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QR/P18-1/00/EFA/0wj/(60) SECOND ENDORSEMENT Hdqtrs., 15th Naval District, Balboa, C. Z. March 23, 1943. From: The Commandant, Fifteenth Naval District. To: Photographer Delbert O. NEWHOUSE, U.S.N. Vla: The Co-ordinator of Photographic Activities, Fifteenth Naval District (Division Officer). Subject: Leave of absence - request for. 177283 1. Returned granted. Arrangements for return transportation should be made immediately upon arrival in the United States. 2. For security of information, the Commander in Chief, United States Fleet, directs that personnel on leave should not participate in a press conference or talk to reporters or talk over the radio, except after consultation with and clearance of the subject matter by a Public Relations Officer of the Navy or Marine Corps. cctBuPers. T. B. KING, Chief of Staff. FINISHED FILEPERS 31954 6 10 22 23 24 0 32 30 62 211 215 222 252 "X" out and in!
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