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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 from the file's own layer

This file comes from the U.S. Navy and is dated 2 May 1957. It is the closed personnel record of Chief Photographer Delbert Clement Newhouse, USN, service number 177283. It holds Records of Emergency Data from 1955 to 1957 that name his wife Norma Isobel Newhouse and their two children, along with dependents' travel claims, an awards endorsement, and a 1957 change of his home of record from Garibaldi, Oregon, to Pensacola, Florida. It also includes a fitness report calling his work as Photographer entirely satisfactory.

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)
RECORD 01' EMERGENCY DATA
SEE INSTRUCTIONS ON REVERSE BEFORE MAKING ENTRIES ~~\
1. DESIGNATOR'S LAST NAME-FIRST NAME-MIDDLE.NAME 2. SERVICE NO. 3. GRADE OR RATE
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NEWHOUSE, Delbert Clement 177283 CHPHOT USN
5. MARITAL STATUS
Married
7. ADDRESS (Numbe', atrtet, cit11, :one, and State)6. FULL NAME OF SPOUSE
3.581 s.E. Grant Court~ Portland l.51 Ore.Norma Isobel NEWHOUSE
CHILDREN (List each child of any marrialle. II none, so state)
FIRST NAME-MIDDLE NAME-LAST NAME ADDRESS MARITAL STATUS SEX DATE OF BIRTH
Delbert Carroll NEWHOUSE 3581 S.E. Grant Court, Portland l!~, Single M 6/28/38
Anne Lisbet NEWHOUSE Oregon ,.
3581 s.E. Grant Court, Portland l!~, Single F 3/14/40
Oregon
9. NAME OF IJI FATHER OR O MALE GUARDIAN 10. ADDRESS IF LIVING-IF DECEASED SO STATE
Noah 'Frank NEWHOUSE Portland, Oregon
11. NAME OF~ MOTHER OR O FEMALE GUARDIAN 12. ADDRESS IF LIVING-IF DECEASED SO STATE
Edith Ma.v RICHTER Box 127~ Garibaldi~ Oregon
IN THE EVENT THAT I AM NOT SURVIVED BY A SPOUSE OR aIGIBLE CHILD I DESIRE THAT PAYMENT OF 6 MONTHS' DEATH GRATUITY BE MADE TO
THE RELATIVE ~HOWN BELOW. (The namo of lather or mother must be repeated ii it is desired that he or she recoivo payment)
13. FIRST NAME-MIDDLE NAME-LAST NAME 14. RElATIONSHIP 15. ADDRESS
Edith May RICHTER Mother Box 127, Garibaldi, Oregon
16. ALTERNATE RElATIVE 17. RELATIONSHIP 18. ADDRESS
Darrel Edwin NEWHOUSE Brother Rt 6, Box 756, Tacoma, Washington
19. IN THE EVENT THAT I AM LISTED AS MISSING OR OTHER MILITARY CIRCUMSTANCES PREVENT ME FROM TRANSMITTING FUNDS TO MY DEPENDENTS, IT IS MY DESIRE THAT
FIRST NAME-MIDDLE NAME-LAST NAME
Norma Isobel NEWHOUSE RElATIONSHIP
Wife '
ADDRESS
3581 s.E. Grant Court, Portland 15, Oregon RECEIVE EACH MONTH
90
20. I REQUEST THE FOLLOWING COMMERCIAL INSURANCE COMPANIES BE OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED IN CASE OF MY DEATH IN ACTIVE SERVICE
NAME OF COMPANY ADDRESS OF HOME OFFICE
Pilot Life Insurance Company
California Western States
National Service Life Insurance
Government Life Insurance
Greensboro, North Carolina
Sacramento, California
Veterans Administration, Wash., D.Ct
Veterans Administration, Wash., D.C4
PERCENT OF MY PAY
POUCYNO.
321583
399422
V-77-44-.32
K 948 857
21. DESIGNATION OR CHANGE OF BENEFICIARY-SERVICEMEN'S INDEMNITY (PL BS, sed Cong.)
(Dou not operate a., a designation or change of bemjiciaru of anu insurance contracta faaued bu United Statea Government)
ALL PREVIOUS DESIGNATIONS OF PRINCIPAL AND CONTINGENT BENEFICIARIES, IF ANY, UNDER SERVICEMEN'S INDEMNITY Ar::r OF 1951, ARE HEREBY CANCELED, AND IT IS DIRECTED
THAT SAID INDEMNITY BE PAID TO:
NAME
Norma Isobel NEWHOUSE
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WITNESSl~D.'na1~~
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G. L. LUCAS
GRADE OR RATE OF WITNESS
ISERVl;E;~572
Lieutenant-USNR- R
RELATIONSHIP SHARE OR AMOUNT TO EACH BENEFICIARY
Wife 100 per cent
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DATE SIGNED
30 March 1955 l&-67492-1
DD ~~~M 9 3 Replaces ~D Form 93, 1 Jul 50, which may be used.
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