Documents / Official release
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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PERS 82-15
# REPORT OF BENEFICIARIES
NAVPERS-601 (1-45)
OFFICER
ENLISTED
1 May 1948.
(Date)
NEWHOUSE (Last name)
Delbest Clement
(First) (Middle)
0177283
(File or service number)
LT USN
(Rank or rate and classification)
u.s. COMMANDER UTILITY WING, PACIFIC FLEET (Ship or station STAFF ALLOWANCE)
To carry out the provisions of the acts approved 4 June 1920, 22 May 1928, 12 May 1930, and 17 March 1941, and acts amendatory thereof 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 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 or husband and that of each of my children:
Mrs. Norma Isabel NEWHOUSE
(Full name of wife or husband ; if not married, so state)
412 - 3rd St., NHA #1, Pearl Harbor, T.H.
(Address of wife or husband)
Delbert Carroll NEWHOUSE
6-28-38
(Full name of child; if none, so state)
(Date of birth)
Same as above.
(Address of child)
Anne Lisbet NEWHOUSE
(Full name of child)
3-14-40
(Date of birth)
Same as above.
(Address of child)
(Full name of child)
(Date of birth)
(Address of child)
In the event that I am not survived by a wife (or husband) or child, or in the event of their decease prior to payment and collection of the gratuity, I then designate the following person as my dependent beneficiary under the act:
Mrs. Vencl RICHTER
(Name in full)
Gen. Del. Gariboldi. Oregon.
Mother.
(Relationship)
In the event of the death of the above-named beneficiary before payment and collection of the gratuity, I then designate the following person as my dependent beneficiary under the act: $ ^{*} $
(Name in full)
(Address)
(Relationship)
* The acts state that death gratuity must be paid to the surviving wife (or husband) or children, if any. In the event of leaving no wife or children, it may then be paid to a designated dependent beneficiary. Every member of the service, whether married or not, should designate a beneficiary (and an alternate, in case of prior death of the primary beneficiary). Failure to make such designation may result in nonpayment of the gratuity. Such designation does not affect payment to a surviving wife (or husband) or children. c6-16-48177-1 Not linked to a story yet.
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