| Entry Text: | PUGSLEY, William H. Saints, Devils and Ordinary Seamen: Life on the Royal Canadian Navy's Lower Deck. xiii, 241p., illus. Toronto: Collins, 1946.
Pugsley was a journalist and junior officer who chose to serve as an ordinary seaman in order to describe life on the lower deck. He uses this experience and those of the men he served with to describe the RCN at war. He spent two years as a rating, serving in Saguenay in the Atlantic, then in Sioux, Duke of York, the minesweeper Georgian from which he saw D-Day, with the Canadian MTBs and finally in Haida. |
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