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US 40 & 8

he Forty and Eight is an organization of veterans of the United States armed forces. Its official name is "La Société des Quarante Hommes et Huit Chevaux," which is French, and translates as "The Society of Forty Men and Eight Horses." The title "40&8" comes from the box cars that were used to transport troops to the front in France. Each car had the emblem 40/8 stenciled on the sides, which meant that it could carry 40 men or 8 horses. These cars were known as forty-and-eights. They were seen by the troops as a miserable way to travel, and the new organization was thus called the 40&8 in an attempt to make some light of the common misery they had all shared.

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Ray Noble

10 Mar 1941 – 21 May 2014

Bossier City, Bossier Parish, Louisiana, USA

Plot info: Interment May 24, 2014.

Sgt Edwin Eugene “Ed” White

20 May 1933 – 18 Oct 2010

Keithville, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA

Plot info: Columbarium 2, side B, row 4, column 7

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