Editor Dr. Hannes Täger leads with Rainer Absmeier’s article on aviators and anti-aircraft guns in tank warfare. Next, he presents Hartmuth Baldamus’ war diary, and an article on the last flight of the French airship Alsace. Rainer Absmeier is back with the last flight of German balloon ace Erik Thomas, and Dr. Täger gives us the history of Max Immelmann’s cenotaph. Charles Gosse has a follow-up to his (Vol. 33 #4) article on Guynemer’s 8th victory and Mike O’Neal will edify us about Hawa #6, a Hannover CL.IIIa flown post-war by the 12th Aero Squadron. Peter Kilduff’s Between the Bookends and Mike O’Neal’s Mentioned in Dispatches wrap things up.
The videos of talks at the 2023 League Seminar last October are now available on YouTube The link to all videos is here.
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 option. Rates for all other countries will increase by $15/year ($3.75 an issue). You will still get the same 384 pages of our usual content over the course of a year, in the same high-quality journal you have been receiving.
If you've received any issue from Vol. 38, you have renewed for 2023. If the last issue you received was for a prior year, your subscription has lapsed. You can renew at the new rates for 2024, and get Volume 38 (2023) from the Shop.
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 copy here. We'll try, now that we've got it, to keep it updated as each new issue comes out, but may fall behind.
Think of this as a first step toward a full index of all of Over the Front, an endeavor you can help with. Interested? Contact Dan at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Courtesy of Steve Suddaby, who also provided us with his Allied Bombing Mission database, we have added the table of contents of the original Cross and Cockade to the Table of Contents.
