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Featuring great Navigators of Overseas National Airways


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AROUND THE GLOBE
WITH ONA

Longest Flight

Flying from NY to McGuire
to Travis to Hickam to Clark,
Philippines to Bangkok
to India to Cairo to Frankfurt to
McGuire to NY and never getting off
the plane - DC8-63F.
4 pilots, 2 engineers and 2 navigators
and no passengers- they opened the
hold and closed it and we went on to
the next stop where they did the same
thing - wonder what we were hauling?
Lots and lots of wonderful memories
and super life experiences!
Best from Lou

ONA CREW


Ron Preede and navigator Franzek

Navigator Bob Houlihan at layover in
Tachikawa, Japan

CLAUDE HUDSPETH
High Flying Supplemental
Extract from TIME MAGAZINE,
Jun. 30, 1967
SPACE DAILY

LOUIS EVERSMEYER


Lou on Facebook!
Lou flew as a navigator on the DC-8
and 10 from 1966 to 1971.

He went to Christ Church, New Zeeland
January 2005 to revisit the airfield where
he flew Antarctic supply missions in 1960.

CHRISTCHURCH INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT, NEW ZEELAND


Camh Ranh Bay, Vietnam
ONA VIETNAM COLLECTION
Rundberg - Wilbur- Wallin
- Mcgonigle- Johnstone- McCloy
White - Oberg- Kolb - Pellegrini
Broderick

Marilyn White Doolittle

DESTINATION GERMANY
ONA crew classy layovers


Maureen Hanna Perinchief, Britt Herland
Silverthorne, unid, Marilyn White and
Capt. Ted Thornton and his wife Lois
above the Rhine when we rented a car
and drove along the Rhine from
Wiesbaden after buying wine, cheese
and bread for a picnic.
I am always reminded of Ted and Lois
Thornton being killed in a car accident
in NJ on the way home from JFK.
He was a Capt. and good friend who took
his wife on several flights I was
working.

ONA CREW

Marilyn White Doolittle
and Lou in New York

Maureen Hanna, Lou and
Connie Gaun King

Nettie Miller in Egypt

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Lou Eversmeyer and
Balsey DeWitt
met upstate New York.
They hadnīt met
since 1969!


ONA HERO CAPTAIN
BALSEY DEWITT

The Ditching and Rescue
of ALM Flight 980
May 2, 1970


Navigator Stringfellow and
Lillemor Ostlund Garsten

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Do you remember the wonderful layovers?



Navigator Paul and Kathy Adams Ball

Sherry Shuerman, Barbara Kedney,
Siwor Ohlsson, Karin Baardsen Evensen
and Kathy Adams

Navigator Hugh Hart

DESTINATION FRANKFURT


Haupt Bahnhof Frankfurt -
Central Train Station
The fabulous dinners at Uhland Eck's
in Frankfurt for $ 5? Or the beer and
bratwurst on the corner by the Haupt
Bahnhof for 4 marks- 1 dollar!

Germany 1967

Left to right Pettyjohn, Birgit Schnor,
Marilyn White Doolittle, Captain
Tom Ahern, Marianne Meissner,
Maggie Lloyd Zeibak, Regina
McCaffrey & .... Miller

WIESBADEN GERMANY

AL QUACK

SCHLOSS SCHOENBURG RHEIN

MEDIEVAL CASTLES-
LORELEY VALLEY
HOTEL SCHOENBURG RHEIN

DESTINATION HAWAII

The Pink Poodle and
the Pink Palace!

I wonder who remembers the
Waikiki Biltmore (now Hyatt
Regency Waikiki)
and the Pink Poodle
ice cream parlor there?

The Pink Palace of the Pacific
Do you remember?

The magic Royal Hawaiian before the
shopping center and the twin towers?
Eating at the Cock's Roost
in the International Marketplace
before all the little kiosks were there?
The Surfers at the Canton Puka or Don
Ho at Dukes in the IM?
Chuck's Steakhouse on Lewers?
Staying at the Reef on Lewers?



Do you remember?



DESTINATION
ATHENS GREECE

Remember dancing under the
stars on the roof of the
Athens Hilton?

HOTEL HILTON
ROOFTOP BAR


Hotel Hilton

Karin Arndt Scheiwe in Athens

Mary Jane Seery Talbott

DESTINATION IRELAND

Anna-Liisa Wallin
In Memoriam


Anna-Liisa outside the Blarney Stone
in Ireland.

SUSIE QUESEY IN IRELAND


Ireland, Irish Pub, Susie Quesey with
mustasch, Sherri Shores short redhead,
other girls, can anyone remember their
names?

AIR SIAM

Flying the Air Siam trips with split loads -
cockpit crew was ONA and the cabin was
Thai crew. One trip we had 3 baby
elephants in the cargo portion!
Do you remember?

Legendary Don Ho


Tiny Bubbles with Don Ho ...

Playing bridge on the beach for
six days with the girls? Flying
from Boston to Las Vegas to Oakland
and on to Hawaii with ATS charters?
Al Harrington - The Island Man-
entertaining the troops on R&R in
the park at Fort Derussy in the
afternoon?

VIENNA AUSTRIA

We brought the Lippizaner horses
from Vienna to NY for their show
at Madison Square Garden.
The wonderful summer nights in
Vienna?

MILAN ITALY

Going to Did you go to a performance at
La Scala Milan Italy for an opera?

PALMA DE MALLORCA

Remember laying on a stone beach in
Palma de Mallorca?

Around the globe with ONA



NEW YORK 2003 REUNION!
HEY HEY ONA! HEY HEY ONA! HEY HEY ONA!


Marilyn White Doolittle and
Inge Brandenburg Castrissiades

Jack Hogan, Ginette Kayser
and George Flavell

Margareta Nisser, Lillemor Ostlund
and Anna-Liisa Wallin
Margareta and Anna-Liisa were
also reunion organizers.
Lillemor travelled from
Helsingborg Sweden to
New York and reunion!

Nettie Miller and Lillemor -
Nettie travelled from San Fransisco
to come to reunion!


Pam Greene McClune - reunion organizer,
Roy Boe and Betty Broderick Boe

Cecilia Overthrow-McCloy
and Dave McCloy

Ras Nielsen, Britt Herland-Silverthorn
and Pat Kineen-Van Dekamp

Chris Krippene and Fred Joseph

Tom Ahern, Chris Krippene
and Helen Holst

Cathy Cahill, Sandy Marx-Van
Curan and Barbara Stephen

Camille Russo Smart, Paul Witting
and Kathy Grandin Gursel

Susanne Janet-Rhodes, Judy Chin-Hom,
Benita Leung-Noto and Milt Marshall

Camille Russo-Smart and
Tina Johansson - Stephens

Maureen Hanna and husband

Britt Larsson Antonaccio
and Johanna Heinrich Derda Echols

Barbara Stephen, Phil Geraldi
and Gerda Johnson

Inge Brandenburg Castrissiades and Clare Burt

Marliese Berger-Edelman,
Barbara McGowan-Ahern and Pat Nixon

Ginette Kayser and George Castrissiades

Ingrid Mjornell Hinckley,
Sam Rogers, Marliese Berger Edelman
and Sigrid Glemnitz White Kornacher


Lillemor, Jane, Marilyn, Lois Holwerda,
Pam, Jacquie Law, Bobbie Francis
ONA GRAND FRIENDSHIP
REUNION IN NEW YORK
OCTOBER 25, 2003!

A BIG THANK YOU TO THE
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Margareta Nisser, June Kolb,
Anna-Liisa Wallin and Pamela Greene!



Frank Schooley, Bobbie,
Bob Hughes, Gerda Johnson

Helen Holst, Dave McCloy,
Cecilia McCloy, George
Casstrissiades - Chris
Krippene in background

Nettie, Addie Sukovich, Jacquie Law,
Pat Pluguez and Lois Holwerda

Paul Longo, mr Hanna Perinchief,
Dale Geiger, Annaliisa, Margareta
Wulf Thaute and Tina


Kathy, Cecilia, Sandy, Gerda

Jane, Barbara & Tom Ahern,
Inge Castrissiadis

Johanna Heinrich, Marianne
Meissner and Rosemarie Neuber

Bob Hughes and Annaliisa

Margareta Nisser, Jack Hogan,
George Flavell and Bobbie Francis

Judy, Susanne Janet,
Herb Eckhard and Benita


Jackie, Kathy, Lillemor,
Marit and Dale Geiger

Herb, Pam Suett &
boyfriend George

Roy Boe, Marilyn,
Bobbie and Betty

Tina, Margareta,
Janie and Betty


Sunday brunch crowd Jane,
Betty, Pam, Marilyn and
Pam Suett

What a wonderful reunion!
Paul was there, everybody was there!
87 attendants!

Photos courtesy Margareta Nisser


Paul and June Kolb, one of reunion organizers

Chris van Curan and Stu Wotton


Betty Broderick Boe and Nanette Krippene 		Marilyn White Doolittle
The reunion was the greatest! I hadnīt seen 
some of the girls in over 35 years.  
It started at noon--still going strong 
at 9--I stayed in N.Y. for three days--
didn't want to miss anything.  
On Monday morning I flew with Betty 
Broderick--Pam Suett to Belize (Central 
America) for 5 days.  
Most of my best women friends are the 
O.N.A. girls.  Love  Marilyn


Bob Hughes

I loved the reunion! Thanks to reunion 
organizers for putting this wonderful 
reunion together! Greetings Bob

Write Bob at RLHUG@OPTONLINE.NET!


Ted Stowe had a ball at reunion! 
Write Ted at TedStowe@msn.com


Barbara Stephen had a wonderful 
time at reunion!


Nettie Miller extends the warmest 
greetings to reunion committee for the 
perfect organization of this fantastic 
event! Nettie only wishes it would have 
lasted longer! 
Paul Stark made it!!! So very nice to 
chat to him again! Many, many
compliments about the organizational 
skills of the magnificent four!
Big turnout and lots of fun! Hope it 
wont be long til next reunion!!



Sandy (Marx) Van Curan - email 
her at is cdvc@comcast.net

The ONA reunion was a blast! There 
was quite a few people I hadn't seen 
in ages. I joined ONA in 1969.  
Lots of screaming and kissing! And 
even tears...boy how I miss those 
good olde days.  
We were young and fun and whipped 
around all different places in the 
world like we were going to the 
corner drug store.
And we forged friendships that are 
still in place 34 years later!  
Amazing! 

Sandy



Ras Nielsen, email   
ras.nielsen@comcast.com

This last re-union was really a 
blast! I really enjoyed it! It 
was great to meet that many old 
friends.
Ras


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