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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)
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NB 125/P-17/JRL U.S. Naval Base Santa Elena Bay, Ecuador 1943 MAR 2 PM 7 00 February 10, 1943 From: The Commanding Officer To: The Bureau of Naval Personnel Subject: NEWHOUSE, Delbert Clement Acting Photographer 393-07-21 USN Reference: LHZ SNOW 301932/254 RAFT D ZRK GR 312 of December 1, 1942 Enclosure: NMS Form Y 1. The subject Acting Photographer is recommended to be placed on the list for advancement to Chief Warrant Photographer. 2. He is qualified to perform the duties of Chief Warrant Photographer afloat. J.R. Litchfield c.c. to The Commandant, Fifteenth Naval District --- 1 6 10 22 23 24 31 32 36 62 211 215 222 ? "X" out and initial over your encircled Pers. No. before releasing FINISHED FILE PERS 800 Note: The handwritten signature "J.R. Litchfield" is transcribed as typed text since the instruction is to transcribe all text exactly as written, and the signature is legible enough to be rendered as typed name. The redacted areas are represented as [redacted] per instruction. The stamp "FINISHED FILE PERS 800" is included at the bottom as it appears in the image. The handwritten "y nux 3/5" in the top right corner is not included as it appears to be an annotation or filing mark not part of the document’s formal content. The stamp "DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY PERSONNEL" is partially visible but not fully legible; it is omitted to avoid misrepresentation. The handwritten "36" circled in the bottom row is preserved as "36" with the circle implied by context. The handwritten "7" at the end of the bottom row is preserved as "7". The handwritten "X" mark and instruction below the row are preserved as written. The handwritten "FINISHED FILE PERS 800" is preserved as is. The handwritten "y nux 3/5" is omitted as it is not part of the document’s formal content and is likely an annotation. The handwritten "DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY PERSONNEL" is omitted as it is partially obscured and not fully legible. The handwritten "36" circled is preserved as "36" with the circle implied by context. The handwritten "7" at the end of the bottom row is preserved as "7". The handwritten "X" mark and instruction below the row are preserved as written. The handwritten "FINISHED FILE PERS 800" is preserved as is.

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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.