ON THE LEE SIDE' OF MY NAVY LIFE is Christopher Harame's way of sharing his adventures from when he joined the U.S. Navy in 1938. His travels through the Panama Canal for U.S. Navy Fleet maneuvers in the Caribbean to ship overhaul in the Navy Yard at Pearl Harbor T.H. back to the States for the San Francisco Exposition are chronicled in these series of short stories. 9, September 1939, a state of emergency was declared in the United States and Pearl Harbor T.H. became the setting for further adventures. Christopher Harame was a Gunners Mate on the USS Detroit at Pearl Harbor during the 7 December 1941 attack by the Japanese forces.

This book contains many short stories filled with adventures crossing the equator, attending deep sea diving school in the Navy Yard at Washington D.C., and his detached duty to the U.S. Army Air Force at Eglin Field Florida as a deep sea diver. The book details the marriage to his sweetheart in Reno, Nevada. Harame recounts his service aboard the USS Greenlet, a submarine rescue vessel, as Chief Gunners Mate, then to advanced gunners mate school in Washington D.C. and finally return to Navy Yard Mare Island California to put the USS Nereus, a submarine tender into commission when the war ended.