Meridian International Center Great War Alliance Forum, Sept. 15, 2017
Military Aviation Museum Biplanes and Triplanes Show, Oct. 7-8 2017
LWWIAH Mid-Atlantic Chapter Meeting, October 28, 2017
National World War I Museum 2017 Symposium -
1917: America Joins the Fight, Nov. 3-4, 2017
We're reducing the price of all available back issues prior to Volume 36, and to back volumes for Volumes 32-35 (the complete Volume 31 is no longer available). These are the original issues of Over The Front, not the Amazon reprints. All back issues up to Volume 35 No. 5 (Winter 2020) are now $10 (plus shipping outside the US). Complete volumes, if available, from 2005 through 2020 are all now $40; complete volumes from before 2005 remain at $20 a volume, again plus shipping outside the US. Back volumes and issues for 2021 and later remain $60/volume and $20/issue (plus shipping if outside the US).
We open with Christophe Cony’s look at some of the captured German aircraft, as exhibited in Paris in 1918. Carl Bobrow then introduces us to early German motion picture pioneer Oskar Messter, who was also a pioneer in developing roll-film cameras for military reconnaissance work. One day in Flanders during October 1918 is the topic of Walter Pieters and Alain Van Geeteruyen’s article, and Steven Suddaby begins a multi-part series on German bombing missions on mainland Europe. The issue wraps up with Peter Kilduff’s look at some of the newest books bearing on World War aviation.
We are pleased to announce preliminary plans for the upcoming League of World War I Aviation Historians Seminar, scheduled for Fall 2025. While final details, including the venue and exact dates, are still under review by the board, we are preparing for another engaging and informative event. For further details, including about submitting papers, see the article at https://overthefront.com/about/otf-seminars
As President Dan Polglaze said in Between the Lines in Volume 35 No. 3, we (mostly he) have been delving through our back issues to create the first-ever complete Table of Contents for every issue of OTF published to date. In it you'll find titles, authors, volume, issue and page references, and major topics for each article. It's all in the form of an Excel spreadsheet so you can download your own copy and sort, search and modify it as much as you want. Can't wait to get started? Download a...
We regret that rising costs for everything, but especially for mailing expenses, mean we have had to raise our dues for 2024 and beyond. This is the first rate increase we have had since 2016; US rates will increase by $10/year ($2.50 an issue) for both Media Mail and First Class subscriptions. We can no longer offer "Fourth Class" rates to Canada (USPS hasn't offered that option for a long time; we've been unwittingly eating the cost); Canadians now need to use the First Class US/Canada...
The videos of talks at the 2023 League Seminar last October are now available on YouTube The link to all videos is here.
