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.
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 Missiion database, we have added the table of contents of the original Cross and Cockade to the Table of Contents.
