Dear All, I found this an interesting question. After reading the replies I
decided to think about this question and share what I remember. I never saw the
astronauts land on the moon. In fact I did not know that it had happened for a
number of days and remember thinking at the time that some day I will find out
more. At the time of the moon landings I was half way through my officer combat
Engineer year tour of duty in South Vietnam. Not only did we not have any TVs
but I was often flying on support missions for combat operations in the ll
Corps based out of the costal city of Nha Trang.
My job was to keep tract of all the lines of communication, take photos of all
the critical bridges, and take division army staff on reconnaissance of the
routes they would be traveling on and pointing out the historic ambush
locations and dangerous bottle necks. You can imagine that during my service I
knew little of what was happening in the rest of the world. In this position I
did allot of photography with my personal Topcon Super D and the army issue
Leica lllf. The IIIf was good for ground recon but when photographing from the
chopper skids, I needed through the lens with a 200mm lens.
I did survive the year overseas and ended my service as a professor at the Ft.
Belvoir Corps of Engineers post outside of Washington in the late summer of
1970. In the fall I entered to Ph.D geochem program at Penn State.
It is only now on the 50th anniversary of the landing that I am finally viewing
the historic landings and finally seeing what I missed back then and appreciate
the accomplishment. Of course now we are also seeing the photos that were not
available at the time of the landings. It is interesting that on my way from
Vietnam I stopped in Tokyo, Japan and visited the professor I had known in
Alaska when working on my MS who was from Tokyo University and even handled one
of the moon rocks because of my major in Volcanic Basalts similar to the types
collected on the moon.
I had forgotten much of the above until I saw your heading “Moon Landing-where
were you?” Thanks for triggering my memory and allowing me to share this.
Captain George Furst, US Army retired now living in South Korea
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