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    7 months ago

    Wilshire gave the correct answer, but wanted to expand on that. Cargo 200 was a Soviet code word for transporting filled coffins. It would be what you write on a cargo manifest. It morphed into simply ‘200’ and ‘300’ referring to dead and wounded respectively.