2024 marks the 39th year of production of our outstanding journal Over the Front; free with membership in the League of WWI Aviation Historians. 2024 will be another exciting year of outstanding historical articles in our world class journal, and the cost of a basic membership is just $75. To sign up CLICK HERE. The League remains the preeminent group for all things WWI Aviation History. Be a part of the great community that is the League of WWI Aviation Historians!
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.
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.
