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Members of the 40/8 (“Forty and Eight”), a World War I servicemen’s group, stand for a photo around the year 1930. The men were members of the local chapter in Penobscot County. The club’s name was a reference to the French railroad boxcars that transported men to the frontlines during the war. Each boxcar could hold 40 men and eight horses. The group was first organized in Pennsylvania in 1920, two years after the war ended. Franco Philes is a weekly feature offering a photo from the Franco-American Collection at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College in Lewiston.
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