Jeanne A. Urbin Markle
Markle
Jeanne A.
IN
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Army Nurse Corps
93rd Evacuation Hospital; 24th Evacuation Hospital
First Lieutenant
Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Fort Carson, Colorado; Vietnam
Unknown
Veteran
"We ran out of bandages one week and had to use the Stars & Stripes newspaper." (Audio interview, Tape 1, 18:18)
Born, raised, and trained to be a nurse in Indiana, Jeanne Urbin joined the U.S. Army in 1965 as a way of seeing the world. A year later, she got her wish when she married an officer who was about to ship out to Vietnam. The Army needed nurses to go to Southeast Asia, Jeanne didn't want to be separated from her husband Brian, and she soon found herself caring for wounded and ill soldiers in conditions far more primitive than the sterile confines of a Midwestern hospital.
2nd Lt. Jeanne (Urbin) Markle, shortly after her wedding. Springfield, Ohio. 1966. [detail]
Healing with Honor: Nurses
Life-Altering Moments
Women at War
Voices of War
1st Lt. Brian Markle and 2nd Lt. Jeanne (Urbin) Markle, shortly after their wedding. Springfield, Ohio.
August 1966
Jeanne Markle and Brian Markle, Lounge of Quarters #4 (Nurses’ Quarters). Long Binh, Vietnam.
January 1967
Karen Gramke, American Red Cross worker outside Quarters #4. Long Binh, Vietnam.
January 1967
Brian Markle, HQ, 58th Medical. Long Binh, Vietnam.
February 1967
24th Evacuation Hospital, from main gate. Long Binh, Vietnam.
February 1967
Nurses’ Quarters #4, 24th Evacuation Hospital. Long Binh, Vietnam.
February 1967
1st Lt. Charles Ormond and Brian Markle, downtown Bien Hoa. Vietnam.
March 1967
Unidentified patient and actor James Garner, Post Op 2, 24th Evacuation Hospital. Long Binh, Vietnam.
April 1967
Brian Markle outside Nurses’ Quarters, 93rd Evacuation Hospital. Long Binh, Vietnam.
December 24, 1966
Unidentified South Vietnamese worker and Brian Markle, two days after an ammunition storage dump was sabotaged, 58th Medical HQ. Long Binh, Vietnam.
January 1967
Brian Markle, Buddhist temple. Saigon, Vietnam.
February 1967
Cleaning and sterilizing area for medical instruments and bed pans, outside Post Op, 24th Evacuation Hospital. Long Binh, Vietnam.
April 1967
Helipad, 24th Evacuation Hospital. Long Binh, Vietnam.
March 1967
Soldiers and hospital patients watching Nancy Sinatra perform "These Boots Were Made for Walking." Long Binh Amphitheater, Vietnam.
April 1967
Wounded soldier being rushed to hospital, helipad, 3rd Surgical Hospital, MUST (Medical Unit Self-Contained Transportable-Inflatable), Bien Hoa, Vietnam.
May 1967
Patients boarding airplane which was transporting a pregnant Jeanne Markle back to the U.S.; she took the picture from inside the plane. Ton Son Nut Air Base, Saigon, Vietnam.
August 1967
Helipad, 24th Evacuation Hospital. Long Binh, Vietnam.
February 1967
Contempary photograph of Jeanne Markle
2002
Contempary photograph of Jeanne Markle and Brian Markle
2002
Contempary photograph of Brian Markle
2002
Nurse Basic Camp Bullis TX Keeping warm
Jeanne Markle and best friends 1966
1966
Jeanne Markle ready to fly RVN 1967
1967
4 nurses basic Ft Sam Houston 1966
1966
Getting married; shipping out to Vietnam.
First impressions of Vietnam; conditions in her ward.
A letter of concern from her mother.
A female voice on the phone.
Tending to dying and maimed soldiers.
Getting dysentery from mess hall workers.
Dealing with "mama-sans."
Pregnant and coming home with wounded soldiers.
Self-censoring her letters home; dealing with the aftermath of war.
Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.03442/
DLC-AFC
2023-06-05
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