Editing Humphrey Bogart (section)

== Navy ==
[[File:Humphrey Bogart yearbook photo - 1918.jpg|upright|thumb|alt=Grainy photograph of Bogart as a young sailor|Enlisting at 18 in the U.S. Navy in 1918, Bogart was recorded as a model sailor.]]

With no viable career options, Bogart enlisted in the [[United States Navy]] in the spring of 1918, during [[World War I]]. He recalled later, "At eighteen, war was great stuff. Paris! Sexy French girls! Hot damn!"<ref name=Meyers_p19>{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|p=19.}}</ref> Bogart was recorded as a model sailor, who spent most of his sea time after the [[Armistice of 11 November 1918|armistice]] ferrying troops back from Europe.<ref name="Sperber p.27">Sperber and Lax 1997, p. 27.</ref> Bogart left the service on June 18, 1919,<ref name=military.com>[https://www.military.com/veteran-jobs/career-advice/military-transition/famous-veteran-humphrey-bogart.html Famous Veteran: Humphrey Bogart.] [[Military.com]]. Retrieved April 16, 2021.</ref> at the rank of [[Petty Officer 2nd Class]].<ref name=Meyers_p19 /> During [[World War II]], Bogart attempted to re-enlist in the Navy but was rejected due to his age. He then volunteered for the [[United States Coast Guard Reserve|Coast Guard Temporary Reserve]] in 1944, patrolling the California coastline in his yacht, the ''Santana''.<ref name=uscg.mil>[https://www.history.uscg.mil/Browse-by-Topic/Notable-People/Celebrities-and-Famous-People/ Celebrities and Other Famous People: A list of people that once served in or was associated with the U.S. Coast Guard.] [[United States Coast Guard|uscg.mil]]. Retrieved April 16, 2021.</ref>

He may have received his trademark scar and developed his characteristic lisp during his naval stint. There are several conflicting stories. In one, his lip was cut by shrapnel when his ship (the {{USS|Leviathan|ID-1326|6}}) was shelled. The ship was never shelled, however, and Bogart may not have been at sea before the armistice. Another story, held by longtime friend [[Nathaniel Benchley]], was that Bogart was injured while taking a prisoner to [[Portsmouth Naval Prison]] in [[Kittery, Maine]]. While changing trains in [[Boston]], the handcuffed prisoner reportedly asked Bogart for a cigarette. When Bogart looked for a match, the prisoner smashed him across the mouth with the cuffs (cutting Bogart's lip) and fled before being recaptured and imprisoned. In an alternative version, Bogart was struck in the mouth by a handcuff loosened while freeing his charge; the other handcuff was still around the prisoner's wrist.<ref>Citro et al. 2005, pp. 240–241.</ref> By the time Bogart was treated by a doctor, a scar had formed. [[David Niven]] said that when he first asked Bogart about his scar, however, he said that it was caused by a childhood accident. "Goddamn doctor", Bogart later told Niven. "Instead of stitching it up, he screwed it up." According to Niven, the stories that Bogart got the scar during wartime were made up by the studios. His post-service physical did not mention the lip scar, although it noted many smaller scars.<ref name="Sperber p.27" /> When actress [[Louise Brooks]] met Bogart in 1924, he had scar tissue on his upper lip which Brooks said Bogart may have had partially repaired before entering the film industry in 1930.<ref name="Meyers_p18-19" /> Brooks said that his "lip wound gave him no speech impediment, either before or after it was mended."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Eyles |first1=Allen |title=Bogart |date=1975 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-0-333-18020-4 |page=9 |language=en}}</ref>