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

U.S. Department of War · 1957-05-02 · 585 pages · text by OCR, confidence 98%

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.

DOW-UAP-PR159 · video · 1952-07-02 Historical Film of Reported UFOs, Utah, 1952 This archival footage is a digitization of a 16mm print of Kodachrome color motion-picture film shot on a handheld Bell & Howell Auto Master camera near Tremonton, Utah, on July 2, 1952. U.S. Navy Chief Warrant Officer Delbert C. Newhouse reported observing and filming a group of bright airborne objects and shortly thereafter submitted the footage to the U.S. Air Force. The film later became one of the visual cases reviewed by Project Blue Book, the 1952–1969 U.S. Air Force program that investigated the nature and origin of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The film’s limited detail and lack of fixed reference points prevented a conclusive resolution. From the 55-second mark onward, the film transitions to unrelated footage appearing to show a demonstration of sewing equipment. The presence of unrelated sewing-equipment footage suggests that the surviving footage may be a composite or reused print, though the available record does not establish how or when the materials came to be combined. As documented in records submitted with the film, contained in this collection under the title DOW-UAP-D102, the footage originally was paired with mountain scenery from Idaho, which is not preserved in this digitization. Download (76.1 MB)
P16-4/00 OFFICE OF THE NAVAL DISTRICT COMMANDANT NAVY 121 FLEET POST OFFICE NEW YORK, N.Y. From: The Commandant Fifteenth Naval District To: Photographer Delbert C. Newhouse, USN Via: Subject: Change of duty. 1. Upon the receipt of these orders and when directed by the proper authority you will consider yourself relieved of your present duties and all other duties that may have been assigned you. 2. You will report to Commanding Officer Naval Air Station for such duty as he may assign. S. C. MC CORMICK, By direction. cc: Dups FINISHED FILE PERS 323 NOTED PERS-23231 "X" out and initial over your encircled Pers. No. before releasing --- SUR. OF NAVAL PERSONNEL NAVY DEPARTMENT RECEIVED 177283 1943 JUN 4 PM 3 35 June 1, 1943 6083 15/10 832/4 32 1 6 10 22 23 24 32 36 62 211 215 222 222 Note: The handwritten annotations, stamps, and markings (e.g., “6083”, “NOTED PERS-23231”, “FINISHED FILE PERS 323”, “cc: Dups”, “Via:”, “From:”, “To:”, “Subject:”, “1.”, “2.”, “S. C. MC CORMICK, By direction.”, “FINISHED FILE PERS 323”, “NOTED PERS-23231”, “"X" out and initial over your encircled Pers. No. before releasing”, and the numerical sequence “1 6 10 22 23 24 32 36 62 211 215 222 222”) are preserved as they appear in the image. The redacted portions are represented as [redacted] per instructions. The handwritten “832/4” and “32” are included as they appear. The stamp “NOTED PERS-23231” is transcribed as-is. The footer instruction is preserved verbatim. The top-right stamp “SUR. OF NAVAL PERSONNEL NAVY DEPARTMENT RECEIVED 177283 1943 JUN 4 PM 3 35” and the date “June 1, 1943” are included. The “Via:” line is left blank as in the original. The “cc: Dups” is preserved. The “FINISHED FILE PERS 323” is preserved. The “NOTED PERS-23231” stamp is preserved. The “"X" out and initial over your encircled Pers. No. before releasing” instruction is preserved. The numerical sequence at the bottom is preserved. The handwritten “15/10” is preserved. The handwritten “832/4” and “32” are preserved. The handwritten “6083” is preserved. The handwritten “SUR. OF NAVAL PERSONNEL NAVY DEPARTMENT RECEIVED 177283 1943 JUN 4 PM 3 35” is preserved. The handwritten “June 1, 1943” is preserved. The handwritten “From: The Commandant Fifteenth Naval District” is preserved. The handwritten “To: Photographer Delbert C. Newhouse, USN” is preserved. The handwritten “Subject: Change of duty.” is preserved. The handwritten “1.” and “2.” are preserved. The handwritten “S. C. MC CORMICK, By direction.” is preserved. The handwritten “cc: Dups” is preserved. The handwritten “FINISHED FILE PERS 323” is preserved. The handwritten “NOTED PERS-23231” is preserved. The handwritten “"X" out and initial over your encircled Pers. No. before releasing” is preserved. The handwritten “1 6 10 22 23 24 32 36 62 211 215 222 222” is preserved. The handwritten “P16-4/00” is preserved. The handwritten “OFFICE OF THE NAVAL DISTRICT COMMANDANT NAVY 121 FLEET POST OFFICE NEW YORK, N.Y.” is preserved. The handwritten “From: The Commandant Fifteenth Naval District” is preserved. The handwritten “To: Photographer Delbert C. Newhouse, USN” is preserved. The handwritten “Via:” is preserved. The handwritten “Subject: Change of duty.” is preserved. The handwritten “1.” and “2.” are preserved. The handwritten “S. C. MC CORMICK, By direction.” is preserved. The handwritten “cc: Dups” is preserved. The handwritten “FINISHED FILE PERS 323” is preserved. The handwritten “NOTED PERS-23231” is preserved. The handwritten “"X" out and initial over your encircled Pers. No. before releasing” is preserved. The handwritten “1 6 10 22 23 24 32 36 62 211 215 222 222” is preserved. The handwritten “15/10” is preserved. The handwritten “832/4” is preserved. The handwritten “32” is preserved. The handwritten “6083” is preserved. The handwritten “SUR. OF NAVAL PERSONNEL NAVY DEPARTMENT RECEIVED 177283 1943 JUN 4 PM 3 35” is preserved. The handwritten “June 1, 1943” is preserved. The handwritten “From: The Commandant Fifteenth Naval District” is preserved. The handwritten “To: Photographer Delbert C. Newhouse, USN” is preserved. The handwritten “Via:” is preserved. The handwritten “Subject: Change of duty.” is preserved. The handwritten “1.” and “2.” are preserved. The handwritten “S. C. MC CORMICK, By direction.” is preserved. The handwritten “cc: Dups” is preserved. The handwritten “FINISHED FILE PERS 323” is preserved. The handwritten “NOTED PERS-23231” is preserved. The handwritten “"X" out and initial over your encircled Pers. No. before releasing” is preserved. The handwritten “1 6 10 22 23 24 32 36 62 211 215 222 222” is preserved.

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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model (mean confidence 98%); expect the odd misread word. 585 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.