"One young Navy doctor, still professionally wet behind the ears; four young enlisted men who had only a few months' training as hospital corpsmen; and a half million filthy, diseased, mutilated Asians fleeing from the Godless cruelties of Communism...."

Here, in his own words, is the story of why Tom Dooley decided to spend his life caring for the sick and the poor in Southeast Asia. 

As a young Navy doctor, he was ordered to head a fantastic rescue operation-to build refugee camps; to feed, clothe, and give medical aid to thousands of evacuees fleeing from Communist terror. 

What Tom Dooley saw on this mission, he was never to forget. 

What he experienced there at the rim of hell was to determine the purpose and meaning of his whole life.