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OVERSEAS NATIONAL AIRWAYS

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AMAZING ONA CREW!

LOU EVERSMAYER

Lou Eversmayer
and Balsey DeWitt
met upstate New York.
They hadn´t met
since 1959!!

Maureen Hanna, Lou and
Connie Gaun King

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ONA HERO
CAPTAIN
BALSEY DEWITT
The Ditching and
Rescue of ALM Flight 980

May 2, 1970

ONA FRIENDS AND
COLLEAGUES UNITED!

Marilyn White Doolittle
and Lou in New York

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CREW LAYOVERS IN GERMANY AND IRELAND

SCHLOSS SCHOENBURG RHEIN

MEDIEVAL CASTLES-
LORELEY VALLEY

HOTEL SCHOENBURG RHEIN

ONA crew classy layovers

Marilyn White, Maureen Hanna
Perinchief, unidentified,
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.

Anna-Liisa Wallin In Memoriam

Anna-Liisa outside
the Blarney Stone
in Ireland.

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NON STOP NIGHT AND DAY flight NY - Mcguire - Travis - Hickam - Clark, Philippines - Bangkok - India - Cairo - Frankfurt - McGuire - NY ...... and not getting off the plane, a DC-8-63F

N851F Douglas DC8-55F
RESURGENCE
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.

Ron Preede and navigator Franzek

Wake Island runway

Bob Houlihan at layover in
Tachikawa, Japan

ONA VIETNAM COLLECTION

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

ONA Bicentennial Celebration

N851F Douglas DC8-55F
c/n 45824 Gatwick 1967

Waikiki Biltmore now
Hyatt Regency
Three high-rise hotels opened in Waikiki already in i e 1955, the Princess Kaiulani, the Reef Hotel and the Waikiki Biltmore, which itself became a victim of progress and was imploded to make room for what is now the Hyatt Regency Waikiki. Another hotel -- Henry Kaiser's Hawaiian Village, which was not yet a high-rise -- opened its first 70 rooms. It was the year Honolulu hosted its biggest convention ever - 3,500 clergy and lay people at the 58th general convention of the Episcopal Church. That year, 108,000 tourists visited the islands, spending an estimated $56 million. Today, 2006, 177,756 visitors are in the state on an average day. They spend more than $11 billion a year.

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

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 magic Royal Hawaiian
(now Sheraton) 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?

What happened to the Reef?

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?

in Frankfurt for $ 5? Or the beer and
bratwurst on the corner by the Haupt
Bahnhof for 4 marks- 1 dollar! 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!

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

Going to La Scala in Milan Italy
for an opera?
Laying on a stone beach in
Palma de Mallorca?
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