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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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JN177283 # NAVY DEPARTMENT NAVAL AVIATION SUPPLY DEPOT OXFORD AVENUE AND MARTIN'S MILL ROAD PHILADELPHIA 11, PA. SUPPLY DEPARTMENT EPOT ROAD BUDGET NAVAL 11 APR 1946 4 April 1946 From: Lieutenant Delbert C. Newhouse, USN(T) To: The Chief of Naval Personnel Via: SOIC, NASD, Philadelphia, Pa. Subj: Retention on Active Duty - Request for. Ref: (a) AINAV 151-46. 31299 (b) My Request for Permanent Commission in the U.S. Navy, dated 27 August 1945. (c) My Request for Appointment to Commissioned Rank, U.S. Navy, dated 29 March 1946. 1. It is requested that I be retained on active duty in a commissioned status until 1 July 1947 or longer if my services are required. 2. I have the following accumulated active service: Enlisted Service - 9 yrs. - 5 mos. Warrant Service - 0 yrs. - 11 mos. Commissioned Service - 2 yrs. - 10 mos. 3. I have submitted a request for transfer to the regular Navy in a commissioned status under references (b) and (c). Jacket No. 177283 End-1 10 April 1946 NASD, Phila., Pa. To: BuPers. 1. Forwarded, recommending approval. FINISHED FILE PERS-3165 A ADMIN. EXEC. ASSIST By direction
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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.