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Volume 39 No. 2, the Summer issue

Colin Owers has assembled a wide-ranging series of articles, starting with his look at the Fokker D.III in the Netherlands and a photo essay of the AFC’s 4 Squadron’s as it prepared to return to Australia after the war. Roberto Gentilli looks at the US Navy pilot training program at Lake Bolsena in Italy, then Colin reviews and expands on Jack Bruce’s conclusions about the true colour of British P.C. 10. The issue continues with three articles about individual pilots, Johannes Koëlle of the Imperial German Navy by Alexander Notopol, Lt. Roger Chapin of the 11th Aero Squadron by Scott Chapin and Lt. Elmer Johansen of the US Navy by John A. Andersen Jr. The issue concludes with Peter Kilduff’s Between the Bookends.

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  • An Over the Front Table of Contents

    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...

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  • 2024 Memberships

    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...

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  • Videos of 2023 Seminar Now Available

    The videos of talks at the 2023 League Seminar last October are now available on YouTube The link to all videos is here.

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