Editing Forty-and-eights (section)

==Merci Train boxcars==
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In 1949, France sent 49 forty-and-eights to the United States laden with donations from citizens of France in thanks for the U.S.' role in the liberation of France, one for each of the then forty-eight states and one for [[Washington, D.C.]], and [[Hawaii]] to share. Called the [[Merci Train]], it was sent in response to the [[Friendship Train]] America had created two years earlier to aid France in the dire immediate aftermath of World War II; 700 boxcars worth of donated supplies were collected across the U.S. and shipped across the Atlantic via donated transport.