Jan K. Herman is Historian of the Navy Medical Department and author of "Battle Station Sick Bay: Navy Medicine in World War II, " "Frozen in Memory: U.S. Navy Medicine in the Korean War," and "Navy Medicine in Vietnam: Oral Histories from Dien Bien Phu to the Fall of Saigon." He earned a BA and MA from the University of New Hampshire where he was a Ford Foundation Teaching Fellow. Mr. Herman also served in the U.S. Air Force from 1968 to 1972 before joining the Department of State as a public information officer and writer. He also served as staff assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and the Department Spokesman.