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the Nazi fuel can so brilliant the Allies stole the design wholesale
means A sturdy, flat-sided metal container, typically holding about 20 liters, used for safely carrying fuel or water.
from A wartime coinage from 'Jerry,' British slang for a German soldier (likely a clipping of 'German,' possibly nudged along by the name Jerry), plus plain 'can.' The Germans engineered the original Wehrmacht-Kanister in the 1930s, and Allied forces were so impressed by its rugged, easy-pour design that they copied it outright — naming it, somewhat grudgingly, after the enemy who built it.
- enemy origin
- Germans engineered it; Allies copied it without shame
- name source
- Jerry was wartime slang for Germans
- clever guts
- Three handles let one or two carry it
- war stakes
- Allied fuel shortages partly blamed on inferior cans
- built-in air
- A welded pocket lets it float when full
for instance
nato jerry can — standardized 20-liter fuel container adopted by nato forces in 1937, originally german design