Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) 
 
SERIES TITLE   Donner Laboratory R&D Project Case Files  
               High-Altitude/Decompression Studies 
 
  INCLUSIVE DATES   1940 1954 
 
  ARRANGEMENT  Varies 
 
  VOLUME  17 cubic feet 
 
  DESCRIPTION  This series documents the research and activities 
               of the Donner Laboratory, Aviation  Medicine and 
               High Altitude Physiology staff during WWII. The 
               aim of these studies  was to determine the effects 
               of decompression on the human body for flight 
               personnel. The series includes records documenting 
               the experimental procedures performed  on 
               Peruvian, Army, Navy, Air Force, ROTC, and 
               civilian subjects, as well as animals,  in the 
               decompression chamber and during flights out of 
               the San Diego Aviation field.  Radioactive 
               isotopes were used as tracers in many of these 
               studies. The series contains Committee on Aviation 
               Medicine (CAM) reports, experimental notes, 
               procedures  performed on individual subjects, 
               correspondence, individual scientist's files and 
               notes  (Hardin Jones and John Lawrence), x rays of 
               the knees and craniums of subjects,  collected 
               reference articles, photographs, graphs, charts, 
               and original signed consent  forms for underage 
               subjects involved in these studies. 
 
  RESTRICTIONS      This series contains a small amount of 
                    classified information. 
 
  LOCATION OF  RECORDS 
               Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory  
               Archives and Records Office 
               Berkeley, CA 94720 
 
               Federal Records Center  
               1000 Commodore Drive 
               San Bruno, CA 94066