CPS Unit Number 115-20
Camp: 115
Unit ID: 20
Title: Ohio State University
Operating agency: OSRD
Opened: 10 1943
Closed: 10 1946
Workers
Total number of workers who worked in this camp: 6
CPS Unit No. 115, subunit 20, located at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, subjected CPS men to experiments studying physiological reactions to rapid change in barometric pressure.
Dr. Fred A Hitchcock, and Frank Hartman for part of this OSRD experiment, directed a study of physiological changes when men were faced with very rapid changes of barometric pressure (explosive decompression). Sponsored by Ohio State University, the experiment worked with two to four men at a time for approximately a year beginning in mid 1945. Two of the men, Amos Brokaw and Donald Rages, asked to be transferred because they felt the experiments were too closely tied with military effort.