An audience estimated at more than 500 million people watched on live television the landing on the moon and subsequent moon walk that took place (to us) 21 July 1969 (a Monday then). Those of us on the Biddle (as well as, of course, many millions of others) did not.
The Gulf of Tonkin is in what the military calls the “Golf” time zone. It is Zulu Time (also known then in the civilian world as “Greenwich Mean Time”) +7.
Apollo 11’s lunar module landed on the moon at 2017Z 20 July, which was 4:17 pm on the US East Coast, and 0317G 21 July where we were. I remember listening to the radio broadcast, very likely from American Forces Vietnam Network. Not so sure I was listening when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface several hours later. That took place a little before 1000 our time.
We were able later to see the landing, walk, etc., when a “film” of the telecast arrived among our other movies. Not sure how much later. Soon after this date we began to run into some rough weather from Typhoon Viola, which grounded CODs for a few days and would have delayed movies for a while. Anybody remember watching on the mess deck?
I remember