CPS Unit Number 140-01

CPS Unit Number 140-01

Camp: 140

Unit ID: 1

Operating agency: AFSC

Opened: 2 1945

Closed: 10 1946

Workers

Total number of workers who worked in this camp: 66

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  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 1
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 1
    Civilian Public Service, camp 140, Pinehurst, North Carolina. Cpt. Strauss inoculating GP John Troyer; Lt. Robinson observing.
    Photo 125 Box 2, Folder 24. MCC Photographs, Civilian Public Service, 1941-1947. IX-13-2.2. Mennonite Central Committee Photo Archive
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 1
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 1
    Civilian Public Service, camp 140. Pinehurst, North Carolina. A view of what goes on inside the tent. Dr. Ramelkamp with GP Joe Beachy the victim. In order to avoid any possible contamination, the M.C. from Fort Braff did all the inculating.
    Photo 265 Box 2, Folder 24. MCC Photographs, Civilian Public Service, 1941-1947. IX-13-2.2. Mennonite Central Committee Photo Archive
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
    Men at CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8.
    Manchester University Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Delbert D. Blickenstaff Civilian Public Service Collection
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
    Taking a test at CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8.
    Manchester University Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Delbert D. Blickenstaff Civilian Public Service Collection
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
    Enjoying a meal together at CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8.
    Manchester University Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Delbert D. Blickenstaff Civilian Public Service Collection
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
    Delbert Blickenstaff running on the treadmill at the University of Chicago.
    Manchester University Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Delbert D. Blickenstaff Civilian Public Service Collection
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 4
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 4
    Image of a Personnel News newsletter from Camp 140, subunit 4.
    Digital image from the American Friends Service Committee: Civilian Public Service Records (DG 002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 2
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 2
    Guinea pigs: man [Delmar Martin] receiving injection in jaundice experiment, Phila. State Hospital, Phila., Pa., 1945.
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 2
    CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 2
    Injections.
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 1
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 1
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 8
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 4
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 2
  • CPS Camp No. 140, subunit 2
Summary:

CPS Unit No. 140, subunit 1, located at Holly Inn in Pinehurst, North Carolina, subjected CPS men to experiments on atypical pneumonia.

 

Dr. Major Theo. J. Abernathy and Dr. John Dingle directed this OSG project on atypical pneumonia, which had the capacity to utilize up to one hundred and eighty-nine volunteers.  There is evidence that this unit had its origins in one of the 115 CPS Units, likely CPS Unit No. 115, subunit 33.  It operated from July through September in 1945, and was administered at Pinehurst, North Carolina, and possibly, at Gatlinburg, Tennessee earlier. 

 

It may have been, as part of this subunit, that experiments were conducted placing men in isolation at Holly Inn, in Pinehurst, where they contracted atypical pneumonia by inhaling or drinking throat washings taken from soldiers with colds or pneumonia.  The experiment established that both colds and atypical pneumonia were viral in nature. (Keim p. 76)

 

Men published The Pig’s Pen during 1945 at Pinehurst.  One issue from Vol. 1 (June 1945) and six from Vol. 2 (July-August 1945) can be found in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.  According to the newsletter, the atypical pneumonia experiments were sponsored by Yale University, and took place at Pinehurst, North Carolina.

Location:
Pinehurst, North Carolina, United States