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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">I agree! I would keep those cans in the family forever. Genuine WW II historical artifacts.
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<div>Historical records list the Germans as the original inventor of the "Jerry", 4 liter or 5.3 US Gallon can before WW II. During WW II the British, Americans and Russians all realized the can was superior to what they were using and after a few variations
eventually copied the design, still in use today. The British were the fastest to realize the can's excellent design with the American's, as usual, having to try and "improve" a superior design, failing at every attempt, and finally adopting the design in
it's entirety. The three handles are so one person, or two people with one on each side, can carry the can. </div>
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<div>Dave, the two I have are very cool but not nearly as historical as what you have. Keep them forever,<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> or maybe consider donating them to a museum. What a cool display they would make in your shop. So much history there. Not
a single, ground based, gasoline powered vehicle on either side moved very far without those cans. </span></div>
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<div>Oddly, I was recently reading about President Roosevelt's WW II history and came across a passage where he actually referenced those "Jerry" cans and said without them the Allies would not have been as successful in France as we were. </div>
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<div>Some amazing history represented in those two cans. </div>
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<div>Randall Reihing<br>
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<div>wonderful history. don’t ever let them go!</div>
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<div><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 3, 2016 6:45 AM</div>
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<font color="black" size="4" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">That's 'cause they were paced in cosmoline. ;-)</font><br>
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<font size="4">Cheers and thanks for the remembrances.</font><br>
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To: 'Reihing, Randall S.' <Randall.Reihing@utoledo.edu>; 'dave n' <dave@ranteer.com>; triumphs <triumphs@autox.team.net><br>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1f497d">Randall Reihing wrote:</span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif; color:black"></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif; color:black">I have two WW II US Army five gallon cans that were originally on a WW II US Army tank and at 75 years old they are still good, do not leak, are not rusty inside
or outside, and hold fuel for as long as I need them to, which is a lot less than 20-30 years.
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Snap! They knew how to make them in WW2. I’ve still got a 25 litre German jerrican in German field grey stamped, “Wehrmacht. Afrika Korps 1942 – fur Kubelwagen”. Presumably
it was designed to clip on to the open-topped VW used by the likes of Rommel and friends?</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">How this can made it back to England is anyone’s guess, especially as it has two approx. 5 inch diameter patches painted olive green welded to either face equally stamped
on the patches “British Fifth Army LRDG” which LRDG means Long Range Desert Group. These were the guys who penetrated far behind enemy lines and made a nuisance of themselves by blowing up supply lines and indulging in other unco-operative initiatives. Dad
used the can for years afterwards for kerosene to keep the kero heater in our greenhouse at home going in the winter. It’s still good for use and while it takes up a lot of space in my tiny workshop, I can’t bring myself to be rid of it</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:wingdings">J</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
It’s strange how the Germans and the Allies used such a familiar design. Who copied who or was it two like minds on different sides coming up with the same idea and concept?</span></div>
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