Final Personnel Record for Newhouse, Delbert C., U.S. Navy, 1957

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USS ESSEX (CVA9)
CVA9:CSW:deb
Fleet Post Office
Code 01
New York, New York
13 NOV 1958
From:
Commanding Officer, USS ESSEX (CVA9)
To:
All Hands, USS ESSEX (CVA9)
Commander, nir Task Group 201
Subj:
Commendat ion f or Operations performed-during
Mediterranean and WesPac Deployment
1. The Commanding Officer is in receipt of many complimentary
communications -concerning t he out standing performance of ESSEX
and Air Task Group 201 during t he period 2 February to
17 November 1958.
2.
During this period ESSEX and her embarked Air Group served
as a striking unit of the Sixt h Fleet in Mediterranean waters,
and her aircraf t provided i ni t i al and sustained air support
for U. 3. Marine landings i n Lebanon from 15 July to August
1958.
Th~se operations, under wartime conditions, were per­
formed by the men of ESSEX and ATG 201 with an outstanding
degree of professional skill and devotion to duty.
J. Following this, ESSEX was deployed on an emergency basis
to t he Far East , where ai r operations in support of U.S.
~at ional policy during the Formosa crisis were conducted in
the same outstanding manner .
4. Indicative of thb per formance of ESSEX and -her Air Group
are the following ·excerpt s from various communications·
received~
a. In a letter of March 28, 1958, RADM N. -s. HENDERSON,
O.B.E., RN, Vice Naval Deputy, Supreme Headquarters, Allied
Powers Europe who was on board obse1-·.,,--ing operations, stated•• •.
"But above all I took away an impression of a quietly effi­
cient ship with a very lively crew, all of whom seemed keen
and interested in the j ob.
I was deeply impr essed• • •• "
b.
From Commander Sixth Fleet.•.•"AM DELIGHTED WITH A
RECENT LETTER RECEIVED FROM COMMA1-; Di l~G OFFICER TENCH REPORT­
ING THE OUTS'I'.Ar~Dii~G TREATMEHT ACCORD~D TENCH AND SEA ROBIN
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