Over the Front
1996: Volume 11, Number 1
Cover Art
Portrait of Leutnant Erwin Böhme by Professor Hans Kohlschein, the brother-in-law of Böhme's brother, Gerhard. The portrait was rendered in Dusseldorf in March 1917, while Böhme was recuperating from a wound suffered the previous month. In its original form the portrait obviously did not include the Pour le Merite which was later awarded to Böhme. A copy of the original version faces page 14 of 'Briefe Eines Deutschen Kampffliegers An Ein Junges Madchen.' After Böhme's death, the Pour le Merite was added to the portrait, as shown above, presumably by Professor Kohlshein.
The series of articles based on the personal letters of Erwin Böhme to his fiancee which have appeared in various issues of Over the Front were assembled and added to with additional information both textually and photographically by Dr.-Ingenieur Niedermeyer and translated by Douglas Fant. They are an exceptional portrayal of the life of a unique individual, an adventurer in every sense of the word. A mountain climber, skier, traveler, aviator, sportsman, ...Hero.
Table of Contents
Features
The End of an Action-Filled Life: Leutnant Erwin Böhme's Final Letters by Douglas V. Fant and Dr.-Ing. Niedermeyer
Hertha's Album--A Pictorial Biography of the Alte Adler and Prussian Pilot Ltn. D. Res. Fritz John Jacobsen (FFA 1, Jasta 17, 9, 31 and 73) by Dieter H.M. Grö;schel, M.D.
The "Unknown Writer" Behind the "Unknown Aviator:" The Story of War Birds by Lt. Col. Steven A. Ruffin, USAF
Becoming Operational Out of the First Oxford Detachment by Marvin L. Skelton
Departments
Between the Lines
The Seminar | Research Grants | The Mike Carr Prize | An Index | Faxes and E-Mail
Between the Bookends
Airmen Died in the Great War, 1914-1918 | Handbook of German Military and Naval Aviation (War) 1914-1918 | The Royal Flying Corps in France | Richthofen | The Imperial Russian Air Service
Mentioned in Dispatches
Taps
Sir Keith Falter, Kt., FRCM | Charles Edward Whitehouse | Robert Alexander Anderson | Glenn E. Messer | Eduard Carl Brandt
Over the Front
1996: Volume 11, Number 2
Cover Art
The B.E.2 in its various marks formed the backbone of the early RFC squadrons in France, soldiering on long after it should have been retired. Less well known is its role as the training aircraft of many an Australian airman. Aviation artist Gunnar Anderson captures the beauty of what might have been a typical B.E.2 as it flew on a reconnaissance mission over the Western Front or maybe over the Australian Central Flying School at Point Cook.
Table of Contents
Features
Point Cook 1913-1918: A Documentary History by Colins A. Owers
Air War East: Bombing and Reconnaissance on the Russian Front 1914-1917 by August G. Blume
Over the Wine-Dark Sea: Aerial Aspects of the Dardanelles/Gallipoli Campaign Part 4: The German Wasserfliegerabteilung by Richard T. Whistler
Rubber Cows: U.S. Navy Shipboard Balloons in World War I by R.D. Layman
Colors: The Halberstadt C.II by Greg VanWyngarden
Departments
Between the Lines
New Over the Front Chapter | WWI Fly-in at Dayton | Research Grants | Board of Directors Election | Theft at the Smithsonian
A League of Modelers: The Hanriot HD.l
Mentioned in Dispatches
Members' Research | Errata | Addenda
Between the Bookends
Under the Guns of the Red Baron | America Takes to the Air, Vol I-III | Fairey Aircraft | The World War One Source Book
Over the Front
1996: Volume 11, Number 3
Cover Art
16 July 1918: Lt. Zenos Miller of the 27th Aero Squadron, USAS, downs the first of two German observation balloons. Painted by author/artist Michael O'Neal specifically to accompany his article on Miller which appears in vol. 11/3. The painting, entitled "First of Five," recreates the moment the first balloon begins to catch fire.
Table of Contents
Features
Lt. Zenos R. Miller, 27th Aero, USAS by Michael O'Neal
Double Jeopardy, Parts I and II by Stewart K. Taylor and Adam Wait
From Uhlan to Fighter Ace, From the Memorabilia of Major A.D. Joseph Mai by Jü;rgen Ladek and Dieter H.M. Grö;schel, M.D.
Albatros C.VII by Dan-San Abbott
Over the Wine-Dark Sea, Aerial Aspects of the Dardanelles-Gallipoli Campaign, Part Five, The Defense of the Bosphorus and the Fokker Staffel by Richard T. Whistler
Colors: The Breguet and 14.B2 by Greg VanWyngarden
Departments
Between the Bookends
The U.S. Air Service in the Great War, 1917-1919 | Over the Battlefronts--Amazing Air Action of World War One | The Curtiss HS Flying Boats | Models Warplanes 1996 - Volume 1: World War One 1914-1918 | Listening In, Intercepting German Trench Communications In World War I | Hunting With Richthofen: The Bodenschatz Diaries | Philip Markham, A Flight of Fancy | Battlebags: British Airships of the First World War
Mentioned in Dispatches
Members' Research | Errata | Addenda
Taps
Maurice Robert Smith | Colonel Clarence F. "Cap" Cornish | John Henry "Jack" Evens | Brigadier General John F. Egan
Over the Front
1996: Volume 11, Number 4
Cover Art
In what may have been their first glimpse of an aeroplane, Bedouins engaged in a jihad against the Turks, look from their tent at an R.E.8 sent by their British allies. In "Holy Lands," renowned aviation artist, Jim Dietz illustrates a passive introduction to aviation. Later, the value of air power would be demonstrated to the Arab tribesmen in a more aggressive manner as large numbers of their enemy fell to tactical bombing and ground strafing operations in the final British-Arab drive on Damascus.
Table of Contents
Features
Threads From a Flying Carpet by permission of Pat Conrick
The "Port-Said Squadron" The First Squadron of the French Naval Aviation 1914-1916 by Thierry LeRoy and Simon McCarty
Flying Sharks and Treacherous Teutons by Michael Browne
Clifford Adams, USNRF by Robert H. Claxton & Noel Shirley
The Letters and Writings of James H. McMillen, LaFayette Flying Corps by Noel Shirley and Nancy Graham
Ace Over the Electronic Front by L.E. Jareo
The Ace of Seminars: A Feast for All by Ted Sacher
Departments
Between the Lines
New Chapters | overthefront.com
Between the Bookends
Reviewing the Reviewers | Four Years of Thunder | The Jasta Pilots: Detailed Listings and Histories, August 1916-November 1918 | A Yankee Ace in the RAF: The World War I Letters of Captain Bogart Rogers | Naval Aviation in the First World War: It's Impact and Influence | The Two-Headed Eagle | The Camel Drivers: The 17th Aero Squadron in World War I
Mentioned in Dispatches
Members' Research | Errata | Addenda