A little late in joining this thread so my apologies. First I have not seen a picture of the 44 gallon drums being used on an actual patrol. However, in David Lloyd Owen’s memoir, The Desert My Dwelling Place, he states that, on a patrol from Siwa to the Tripoli area in the winter of ‘41-‘42, they discovered that two of the forty four gallon drums that they were carrying contained diesel not petrol and were useless to them severely impacting the radius of the patrol. While this is mentioned only this one time in the reading that I have done, it does appear that the drums were used on patrols even if rarely. Thoughts?
