Ralph Sherman served in the U.S. Army 238th Chemical Depot Company from 1945-1946, first stationed on San Jose Island in the Bay of Panama. He was discharged from the army in February 1946. As a chemical laboratory assistant, his duties included making quantitative tests of war gas concentrations, operating sampling machines, and working on computations from field tests. He maintained and repaired sampling instruments.

1. U S Army 238th
Chemical
Depot Company
Sgt. Ralph Sherman
San Jose Island, Bay of Panama
1945

2. Wednesday, January 06, 2016
Ralph Sherman
Biophysics Technology Transfer –
Central Nervous System (EEG) Thermodynamics
Myrtle Point, Oregon, Research
Current
1. Interdisciplinary Technologies,
2. Saint Francis of Assisi Ecumenical Retreat
Previous
1. Interdisciplinary Technologies, Inc., 1980
2. Carpenter Chemical Company, Inc. 1970
3. Medical Instrumentation Systems Inc. 1969
4. J. M. Richards Laboratory, Inc., (A) 1958
5. Sherman Laboratory Inc. (B) 1949
6. 238th Chemical Depot Company
San Jose Island, Panama (C) 1945
Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah 1944
7. Covered Wagon, Inc (summer intern) 1940

3. (A) Title - A note on the effect of electromagnetic field on enzymic substrates.
Physiol Chem Phys. 1973;5(1):49-56.
(B) Created Antiasthmatic Elixophyllin, it is still on the market.
(C) Taken from Army Discharge: CHEMICAL LABORATORY ASSISTANT
Made quantitative tests of concentrations of war gases. Was in charge of
grey operating sampling machines. Worked on computations of data
derived from field tests. (1) Maintained and repaired sampling instruments.
(1) Addendum RLS 1-1-2016: I made an analog caliper to facilitate plotting
the logarithmic iso-bar values between adjacent pairs of data points.
Education
1. University of Michigan BS Engineering 1949,
electives: spectroscopy, biophysics
2. Kenyon College, Ohio, 1943 one year Army Air Corp Meteorology:
Math, Physics, Judy and I got married in November.
3. Detroit College of Pharmacy, 1941-1942
80 credit hours: chemistry, microbiology
4. Visited 20 Biomedical Universities or Conferences:
in 10 Countries: 1952–1980.

4. My hat, it is really a black beret: notes read counter clockwise Judy, Jerry, Earl, CWS, ATO and Al

5. Detroit 1946

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I spent the year 1943 at Kenyon College, Ohio, in an Air Corp Pre-
Meteorology program. I guess there may have been 80 men in the group. A
lot of them ended up on San Jose Island. Several months later we went to
Camp Siebert Alabama where we were put into the newly formed 238th
Chemical Depot Co. Next we went to the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah.
From there we went to San Jose Island, Panama ca, Feb.1945. I was
discharger in Feb. 1946.
Other Kenyon GIs Were in the 236th Chemical Depot Co. It served in the
European Theater. Some of us kept in touch via email for decades.

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I served as a sergeant managing instrumentation in the field. None of the
tests that I worked on involved mustard gas. I knew of no such tests
while I was there. I was only involved in one test where I was required to
wear protective clothing. I needed it to go into the test area after an aerial
spraying. I didn’t know what that agent was. Just for fun I ran the length
of my route. It wasn’t very long. I may have been involved in four tests.
NO - RLS

9. 238th
Dugway Utah 1944 Once I road in the back of one of these rocket launchers.

10. Grey operating sampling machine called “Consuelo”
It consisted of four glass bottles that sucked in about a gallon of air.

11. I was there

12. I don’t remember it looking like this. It was some kind of derelict.

13. Installation of a test instrument. I saw a 20 foot wide manta ray swim by.
We watched the test from about a mile away on a launch. The plane looked
like it was coming right straight at us. It was a successful test.

14. Plotting the iso-bar concentrations over the test area.