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Posted: Tuesday, August 04, 2020 - 10:28 AM UTC
would us tanker use german water cans that they foud along the into germamy .that's guys .
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Posted: Tuesday, August 04, 2020 - 10:29 PM UTC
From my point of view, I doubt it. I would not use something from the enemy to carry water, who knows what they have done with it before leaving it...
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Posted: Tuesday, August 04, 2020 - 10:32 PM UTC

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would us tanker use german water cans that they foud along the into germamy .that's guys .


Perhaps, but I think it wasn't common practice in Western Europe.

By the advance into Germany, the Allies had successfully copied the 'Jerry can' of early war design - by the million. Although they did look very similar if I remember correctly.
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Posted: Wednesday, August 05, 2020 - 12:36 AM UTC
Not sure about water cans, but the fuel-holding 20L jerrycans were certainly re-used by the Allies - there was never enough hardware to satisfy the insatiable demand for fuel on the front line. The German cans looked almost identical to the British version of the 20L can (because the British copied it almost exactly, only changing the German stamped markings for British "WD" ones!) while the US 5-gallon can with screw top that we all know & love was re-engineered from a German can, but altered enough to be less practical.
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Posted: Wednesday, August 05, 2020 - 01:08 AM UTC

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Not sure about water cans, but the fuel-holding 20L jerrycans were certainly re-used by the Allies - there was never enough hardware to satisfy the insatiable demand for fuel on the front line. The German cans looked almost identical to the British version of the 20L can (because the British copied it almost exactly, only changing the German stamped markings for British "WD" ones!) while the US 5-gallon can with screw top that we all know & love was re-engineered from a German can, but altered enough to be less practical.


And if memory serves correctly, the only way that fuel and water cans were made distinguishable from one another was that it was practice to paint the water cans with a white cross.
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Posted: Wednesday, August 05, 2020 - 02:50 AM UTC
Some German jerry cans actually had the word "Wasser"stamped on them in conjuction
with the white strips.

https://www.jerrycan.com/military-jerry-can-markings-for-gasoline-water/

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Posted: Wednesday, August 05, 2020 - 09:41 AM UTC
thanks guys that is just what I wanted to know.
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