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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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To All Who Shall See These Presents, Greeting: Know Ye, that, reposing special Trust and Confidence in the Patriotism, Valor, Fidelity, and Abilities of ... Delbert C. Newhouse ... I have nominated, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint him a Chief Photographer in the Navy to work with and after design in the service of the UNITED STATES. He is, therefore, carefully and diligently to discharge the Duties of ... by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging. And I do strictly charge and require all Officers, Seamen and Marines, under his Command, to be obedient to his Orders as ... and he is to Observe and Follow such Orders and Directions, from time to time, as he shall receive from me, or the future PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA, or his Superior Officer set over him, according to the Rules and Discipline of the Navy. This Commission to continue in force during the pleasure of the President of the United States for the time being. (L.S.) Done at the City of Washington, this day of . . . in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and . . . and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and . . . By the President: (The lowest number of Registered No. (same date takes rank Secretary of the Navy.
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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.