Over the Front

1993: Volume 8, Number 1

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This painting was inspired by the re-release of David Lean's classic film, 'Lawrence of Arabia.' This arrival of armored vehicles and a Bristol F.2b heralded a new era of mechanized warfare in the Mideast. Sadly, although the technology has evolved with the times, the sight of military hardware on the sands of the desert has become commonplace as the modern equivalents of these weapons still haunt the region where Lawrence and Allenby once fought. (Painting by James Dietz.)

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Features

The Application of Airpower in Allenby's Megiddo Campaign by David L. Bullock

Albatros C.III by Heinz Nowarra

Escadrille Salmson 40 by Percival G. Hart

"There I Was, Dead on His Tail When..." by Harry Woodman

Aerodrome '92 by George Williams

Plumage: Escadrille Sal.40 by Jon Guttman

"75 Days to Get 34 Huns" by Neal W. O'Connor

Departments

Between the Lines
The Organization and the Journal | Over the Front Artist Honored

Mentioned in Dispatches:

Behind the Lines:
Computer Games | WWI Associations and Periodicals

Between the Bookends:
An American Pilot in the Skies of France: The Diaries & Letters of Percival T. Gates, 1917-1918 | Legend, Memory and the Great War in the Air | The World War I Aviation Artists | American Armies and Battlefields in Europe

Taps:
Air Marshal Sir Gerald Gibbs, K.B.E., C.I.E., M.C. | Norman H. Read | Air Marshal Sir George Jones, K.B.E., C.B., M.C. | Norman T. Newton | Forrest E. Wysong | Wallace Hoggson | Lyndon Burch | Samuel Simes Richards | James W. Pearson

Over the Front

1993: Volume 8, Number 2

Cover Art

Looking more like a small scale model than the rare original, airworthy aircraft that it is, the San Diego Aerospace Museum's Mann Egerton SPAD, B9916, is seen on the runway at Sunset at the Museum's Gillespie Field restoration facility in El Cajon, California. (Photo: Tim Whitehouse/San Diego Aerospace Museum.)

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Features

Mann Egerton SPAD 7.C1: B9916 by Howard G. Fisher

The Real SPAD by B.S. Kelsey

The Events of 21 April 1918 by Philip Markham

The Death of the Red Baron--When Is It Too Much? by Howard G. Fisher

The Fokker Dr.I, A Question of Details by Dan-San Abbott

Eyes on the Storm, Part III by Stewart Taylor

By Full Moon or Parachute Flare: Aerial Night Observation and Reconnaissance Along the Western Front, 1914-1918 by Capt. William G. Fischer, Jr., USAF Academy

Departments

Between the Lines
Student Paper Competition | 1994 Seminar | Membership | Thornton D. Hooper Awards

Mentioned in Dispatches:
Addenda | Errata | Members' Research | Over the Front Regional Chapters

Taps:
Gordon Thomas Collinson

Over the Front

1993: Volume 8, Number 3

Cover Art

Turning the Tables by George Evans was inspired by accounts of Flieger-Abteilung (A) 224 crews who fended off and, in some cases, shot down Allied fighters that attacked them. The article in this issue contains examples of such aerial combats. The victorious aircraft is an LVG C.V.

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Features

From the Balkens to the Baltic--Reminiscences of Oberst a.D. Robert Holtzmann by Simone M. Moore

The History of Royal Württemberg Flieger-Abteilung(A) 224 by Peter Kilduff

Ehrentafel Der Gefallenen Württembergischen Flieger

Colors: Aircraft of Royal Württemberg Jagdstaffel 28 by Greg VanWyngarden

Departments

Mentioned in Dispatches:
Addenda | Errata | Member's Research

Behind the Lines

Between the Bookends:
Aviation Awards of Imperial Germany in World War I and the Men Who Earned them, Volume III--The Aviation Awards of the Kingdom of Saxony | The Western Front Then and Now, From Mons to the Marne and Back

Over the Front

1993: Volume 8, Number 4

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Part of the Canadian Air Force Museum's collection in Ottawa include these fine replicas of World War One aircraft. A Sopwith Triplane in Raymond Collishaw's markings, A Sopwith Snipe and SPAD VII replica are part of the collection.

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Features

Rebuilding Jasta Boelcke, Leutnant Erwin Böhme's Letters by Douglas V. Fand and Dr.-Ing. Niedermeyer

Monoplane Fighters of World War I by The Texas Gulf Coast Chapter

The Eye of the Army and the Eagle: The Military Career of an Observer in the Royal Bavarian Flying Corps, Leutnant d.R. Max Gröschel by Dieter H.M. Gröschel, M.D.

Ed Brandt: An American in a Camel Cockpit--Recollections by Tom Leamon

L 53 and the Distant Flying Boats by Marvin L. Skelton

Departments

Between the Lines
Research Grants | Financial Report | The Schedule | The 1994 Seminar

Mentioned in Dispatches
Member's Research | Short Article | Addenda | Short Article

Between the Bookends
The Great War in the Air: Military Aviation From 1909 to 1921 | Windsock Datafile Special: RAF SE5a | Above the Lines: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps, 1914-1918

Taps
Sir Stafford Foster-Sutton, K.B.E., KT., C.M.G., Q.C. | Air Vice Marshal Thomas Albert Lawrence, C.B. | Alan Colin Campbell, ORDE, C.B.E., A.F.C. | Air Vice Marshal Kenneth MacGregor Guthrie, C.B., C.B.E., C.D. | A. Banfield Taylor