CPS Unit Number 115-32
Camp: 115
Unit ID: 32
Title: Mayo Clinic
Operating agency: OSRD
Opened: 10 1943
Closed: 10 1946
Workers
Total number of workers who worked in this camp: 2
CPS Unit No. 115, subunit 32, located at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, subjected CPS men to experiments studying the physiological effects of aero-medical factors.
Dr. E.J. Baldes headed a team of directors that included Dr. Donald C. Balfour, Dr. W. M. Boothby, Dr. C.F. Code and Dr. E.H. Wood in this OSRD project studying the physiological effects of rapid acceleration and deceleration upon individuals in prone and seated positions. These aviation medicine studies experimented with physiological conditions of modern aviation under development. They began in November 1943 and were approved through March of 1946 under the sponsorship of the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. Jesse Dean Stoner and Merlin August Neher volunteered on the assignment at the Mayo Aero Medical Unit under the oversight of the Brethren Service Committee.