into Harm's Way: A Physician's Experience with US Wars, 1941-1969 describes how World War ll, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War affected the life of one man from Minneapolis, Minnesota and many of the men around him from his childhood to his honorable discharge from the US Navy. The first part "Male Service" details how war changed the life courses of six men close to him. Part 2 "Preparation" and part 3 "Active Duty" transitions to when the Vietnam war changed his life course when he was directed to active duty with a squadron of navy landing ships home-ported in Yokosuka, Japan. Part 4 and part 5 comprise the bulk of the book about his experiences as a physician in the Western Pacific, South Vietnam, and at the Yokosuka Navy hospital, Japan from 1965-1968. Part 6 concludes with how he disengaged from military service and his reflections on the human costs of war.
