MrchntMariner86 t1_iwf4od5 wrote
Reply to comment by Hawsepiper83 in TIL that the civilian sailors of the U.S. Merchant Marine had a higher casualty rate during World War II than any branch of the armed forces. by p38-lightning
206 days. I have done a longer one--210--on a non-union boat and boy, that last month is a Hell of a story; rather, a story of a Hell.
But yeah, sailors were desperate on both sides of the coastline. A ship I was on JUST WEEKS BEFORE US lockdowns started happening I later learned had 2 crew (Capt and an Engineer) out of 23 (or so) infected. One died.
It was intense to learn that.
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