CPS Camp Number 081

CPS Camp Number 081

Technical Agency: Mental Hospital

Summary:

CPS Unit No. 81, a Mental Hospital unit at Connecticut State Hospital in Middletown, Connecticut operated by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), opened in March 1943. AFSC supported the unit until it withdrew from the CPS Program in the spring of 1946. Selective Service then operated the unit until it closed in September 1946. Most of the men served as ward attendants; twenty wives joined the hospital staff as day and night ward attendants.

 

CPS Camp No. 81
CPS Camp No. 81, Connecticut State Hospital, Middletown, Connecticut.
(l-r) Fred Mathes, Dwight Culler, Owen Hughes, Walter Johns, Charles Gleisner, Clarence Morrison, Joseph Beondo, Herman Hecker.
Digital image from the American Friends Service Committee: Civilian Public Service Records (DG 002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Camp No. 81
CPS Camp No. 81
Man in Science Laboratory. Photo by Wallace Kirkland of LIFE Magazine.
Digital image from the Center on Conscience and War Records (DG 025), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Camp No. 81
CPS Camp No. 81
Man in lab coat holding test mouse and test tube. Photo by Wallace Kirkland of LIFE Magazine.
Digital image from the Center on Conscience and War Records (DG 025), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

Units:

* Map shows general location of units

  • Location: Middletown, Connecticut | Opened: March 1943 | Closed: September 1946