This Winter issue starts withDavid Mechin's look at the reprisal bombing raids of Karlsruhe.
Cynrik de Decker’s discovery of the logbook of Ltn de Res Erich Sauerbrey gives a useful look into the daily operations of a German crew over Verdun in 1917.
Claude Thollen-Pommerol looks at the aces of SPA 3, commonly referred to as the "Black Band" - Guynemer, Herteaux, Duellin and de la Tour.
Greg VanWyngarden presents a photo essay on the variety of markings used by Flieger Abteilung 208.
Bill Bailey and Jon Guttman chronicle Escadrille 157, the "Bande Bleue" Escadrille, and Michael O’Neal covers the historic “Fokker Scourge” event at the Golden Age Air Museum in September 2022. Plus there’s the usual Between The Bookends from Peter Kilduff.
It's a short table of contents, but the articles are meaty!
Two articles with newly discovered information about Ltn. Rudolf Windisch and Wilhelm Frankl by Dr. Hannes Täger highlight the Autumn issue. Then Tobias Weber presents the combat record of Ltn d Res. Otto Weishaar, an unknown member of Jagdstaffel 65 from the Infantry to his time in the Air Service and the Luftwaffe. The issue concludes with Between the Bookends from Peter Kilduff.
Issue Editor Charley Gosse has presented a truly international issue with articles on Guy Bertram Magley of the Lafayette Flying Corps by Charles Walthall & Dennis Gordon and The Lafayette Escadrille at Ham, April-May 1917 by Jean-Marc Simon.
These are followed with a detailed history of the National Air & Space Museum’s Albatros D.Va in STROPP: Demise and Rebirth by Christophe Cony, Charles Gosse & Greg VanWyngarden.
Carl Bobrow takes us to the Eastern Front with Voennyi Letchik Pyotr Nikolayevich Nesterov, and Charley Gosse gives us a detailed look at four Uniforms of the Lafayette Escadrille and Lafayette Flying Corps in the collection of the National Air & Space Museum.
Colin Owers provides an in-depth look at the development and production of the obscure Norman Thompson NT2B flying boat .
French author David Méchin reports on the devastating effects of the Spanish Flu epidemic on the French Air Service in 1918.
In “The Final Hours of Norman Prince” retired French Air Force General Daniel Bastien and frequent OTF contributor Steve Ruffin detail the final flight and subsequent death of Lafayette Escadrille founding member Norman Prince.
“Kaffe and Kuchen” is Robin Smith’s reminiscence of her lunch and interview with JG I pilot Hans Georg von der Osten.
An open letter comparing French aeronautical development to the US state of affairs by US Navy pilot (NA #11) Henry C. Mustin provides unique insight into the state of French Naval aviation. Issue Editor Colin Owers provides commentary.
The prolific Jon Guttman provides insights into Chris Hill’s reproduction rotary powered Fokker Triplane.
“The Initial burial site of Medal of Honor recipients Goettler and Bleckley” is the result of Doctor Peter Wever's search for the story of these 50th Aero Squadron airmen.
