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LOS ANGELES 1967
Bill O´Hara at left -
Anne Braddock Preede and
Elisabeth
Elisabeth at Camh Ranh Bay
Elisabeth on hotel balcony
close to Waikiki Beach,
Honolulu, Hawaii
FRANKFURT GERMANY
Senior stewardess Crew Briefing
Wanda Acevedo, Marie Warberg Curman,
Nettie Miller and Elisabeth
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ONA LAS VEGAS
Eivor Johansson Hedin and Elisabeth
Elisabeth and Margareta Nisser
in Stockholm. Talking about the
wild ones in New York, Friday´s,
Guam, Wake and Hawaii layovers.
HONOLULU, HAWAII 1967
Birgit Schnor and Elisabeth
DC-8 galley 1966
Johanna Heinrich Echols
and Elisabeth
Honolulu Farewell ...
Honolulu Hello by Susie Q
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Around the globe with ONA!
Frankfurt GI`s and Pisa Italy landings,
glorious days flying around the globe,
the wonderful ONA spirit!
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BAHRAIN INT´L AIRPORT
ONA NEW YORK
Elisabeth,
Marianne
and Jacquie Cuvier in new
uniform with suede coat.
ONA REUNIONS
NEW YORK 2003 REUNION
Photo courtesy Jane Hauptmann Ruppel
ONA TOKIO
Crew Layover at Tokyo
Hotel Korakuen, Tachikawa 1966
Bob Houlihan In Memoriam
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Endless garden projects!
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Elisabeth & Uffe Karlson Gyllman,
Stockholm, Sweden
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Elisabeth at Camh Ranh Bay
Camh Ranh Bay, Vietnam
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CAMH RANH BAY, VIETNAM, SPRING 1967
On the photo I am standing right by the plane
and was off the aircraft only minutes since we
were ushered onboard again, just so that we
could say we had touched Vietnamese soil with
our feet! It was very hot and we had the thick
new uniforms on. In my hand I have a small roll
of paper that a GI gave me and asked me to
phone the person he had noted on the paper, I
got several pieces of paper after the first one,
I also got dollar bills to cover the phone call
cost once I got back to the States.
I was in Vietnam with Fifi LaBine as chief stew,
Johanna Heinrich, Margarita Ortiz, and one more
which I forgot the name of. Male crew was Bob
Houlihan (ONA´s answer to Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt
AND Richard Geere!) and Bill Whitesell, which I
have on photos from that very trip,
unfortunately I forget the rest of the names of
cockpit crew.
Flights to Vietnam originated from McGuire AFB
New Jersey with first leg to Anchorage Alaska,
that time. Then on to Tachikawa AFB, Japan and
then finally to Camh Ranh Bay.
From Camh Ranh Bay we ferried the plane, a DC-8,
to Frankfurt Germany, to pick up next flight.
I dont remember where the intermediate landing
was from Camh Ranh, first Bombay and then probably
Abu Dhabi or Kuweit.
Some adventure! It was so weird having that big
DC-8 to ourselves empty without passengers as we
ferried to Frankfurt, contrasting the crammed
flight we had from Tachikawa to Camh Ranh.
In Tachikawa outside Tokyo Japan, we stayed at
the Hotel Korakuen in Tachikawa, a real Japanese
hotel. In the room was the bathroom with the
Japanese bathtub kind of cubicle tub where you
sit and bathe. The matresses were rolled out on
the floor to sleep, there were small partitions
between different spaces in the room and the
partitions were dressed in rice paper, which
made you feel you slept with seethro walls.
In the room was a guest service pink kimono
that I wore in the hotel garden!
Returning from Vietnam to Tokyo, we stayed in
the Tokyo Hilton in town.
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Hotel Korakuen Tachikawa Tokyo
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VIET CONG EAR IN A GLASS JAR
After another ONA flight to Honolulu Hawaii in 1967 -
New York - Los Angeles - Honolulu, I was on layover
in Honolulu. The crew stayed a whole glorious week
each time we took tourists to Hawaii.
I sat with F/A senior Marianne Meissner at a bar
close to the Waikiki Beach. I was 20 years old and
having a ball! The bar was kind of darkish tho it
was afternoon and full sunshine outside. I came
right out of the boondocks in Sweden a little earlier
and life was thrilling and fast and I had to try
everything! Beside me sat a nicelooking guy and we
started talking. He said he was on short leave from
Vietnam for a couple of days and I was thrilled to
pieces and couldnt quite grasp that one day you were
in a war and then you got leave to have holidays.
I dont remember where he said he had been to fight but
after a while he hauled a jar with some liquid in it
from his pocket and sat it on the bardesk. As I recall
it the jar still had a brandname on it, a label, like
a jar of peanutbutter would
have.
- Do you know what this is, he asked.
I looked and since it was rather dark in the room I
couldnt make out what was
floating in the jar.
- This here is a Viet Cong ear, he said.
He explained he had been in combat and had killed a
Viet Cong gerilla soldier and had taken one ear as a
kind of souvenir. I dont recall the guy´s name but
the story stuck forever in my mind and I thought a
lot about how he actually got that ear and still think
about it often. The fear of dying that makes you go
almost insane I can imagine, being in combat and
waiting to get killed yourself, or kill someone. It
really had impact on me, this happening in sunny
Honolulu, sunshine paradise with leis and maitais,
far away from the war scene.
These are my Vietnam memories.
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Elisabeth on hotel balcony
close to Waikiki Beach,
Honolulu, Hawaii
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