# Of Liberty ships and Humphrey Bogart **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 24, 2019, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-liberty-ships-and-humphrey-bogart/835999 "2019-06-24T22:04:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Snnipe\_70E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@Snnipe\_70E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snnipe_70E)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-liberty-ships-and-humphrey-bogart/835999/21 "2019-06-27T10:45:26Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Sounds like it sucked to be Merchant Marine. Many left the MM to join the infantry because it was safer. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-liberty-ships-and-humphrey-bogart/835999/22 "2019-06-27T10:53:21Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Sounds like it sucked to be Merchant Marine. “No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.” - Samuel Johnson “Also we seem to get torpedo’d a lot” - anonymous WW2 sailor ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-liberty-ships-and-humphrey-bogart/835999/23 "2019-06-28T14:19:15Z")
Army and Navy had GI insurance. Did the MM? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-liberty-ships-and-humphrey-bogart/835999.md?page=1)