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Title
Bailout Oxygen Tanks, Type H-2
Subject
Service - Section Panel & Labels
Description
Issued to Army Air Force pilots, these “bailout” tanks provided an oxygen supply to airmen in an emergency ejection. After attaching the smaller tank via the hose to his mask, the airman pulled the “green apple” - a green wooden grip on a guide wire - that opened the flow of oxygen. More than 165,000 of these tanks were produced under a War Department contract by the Michael Yundt Company. Larger J1 oxygen tanks for B-29 bombers and C-54 hospital planes were produced by the Alloy Products Corporation, also of Waukesha.
Michale Yundt purchased a machine shop at 225 North Grand Avenue in 1919. His primary business was bottle washing equipment for breweries, dairies, and carbonated beverage producers. The company offered a patented
bottle washing system that “imparted the high velocity of compressed air to water” employing the “cutting power of the water blasts” to clean bottles. Micahel Yundt died unexpectedly in August 1942, and his widow Emily Yundt served as President of the company until the early 1950’s.
Alloy Products Company moved to Waukesha from Milwaukee in 1932. It primarily made stainless steel equipment and storage tanks for the dairy industry. Both the Yundt and Alloy Companies shifted their factories to near 100% war production output between 1942 - 1946.
Donor: Mrs. Stanley Zimmerman
Adopt an Artifact Sponsor: MetalTek Intertational's Wisconsin Centrifugal Division
Michale Yundt purchased a machine shop at 225 North Grand Avenue in 1919. His primary business was bottle washing equipment for breweries, dairies, and carbonated beverage producers. The company offered a patented
bottle washing system that “imparted the high velocity of compressed air to water” employing the “cutting power of the water blasts” to clean bottles. Micahel Yundt died unexpectedly in August 1942, and his widow Emily Yundt served as President of the company until the early 1950’s.
Alloy Products Company moved to Waukesha from Milwaukee in 1932. It primarily made stainless steel equipment and storage tanks for the dairy industry. Both the Yundt and Alloy Companies shifted their factories to near 100% war production output between 1942 - 1946.
Donor: Mrs. Stanley Zimmerman
Adopt an Artifact Sponsor: MetalTek Intertational's Wisconsin Centrifugal Division
Publisher
Waukesha County Historical Society & Museum
Date
1942-1943
Rights
Waukesha County Historical Society & Museum