It's easy! Annual dues are now $75 (starting in 2024) (slightly higher depending on the mail option you need/want to use). Rising costs (especially for mailing) have necessitated our first rate increase since 2016. See below for more details.
If you wish to use your credit card to join, fill out our online application form by clicking here. \
If you have difficulties with the on-line form you can send the details to the Membership Secretary via postal mail. We discourage using email to send credit card details. Be sure to include the card type, name, date of expiration, etc. You can download a PDF form here. Memberships run for the "Volume Year"; you will receive issues 1-4 for the year you join or renew. If you join after Issue 4 for a volume has shipped, your subscription will begin with Issue 1 of the next Volume.
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Dues are payable in January, but new members joining later in the year still receive all four issues of Over The Front published in the year in which they join. This means that you will, no matter what time in the year you join (or renew), you will receive all four issues of that volume. Your subscription will not roll over to the next year.
In a year's worth of Over The Front you will get 384 high quality pages of WWI Aviation History! So whether your interested in aircraft, armament, the Western Front, German fighter aces, the Zeppelins, British fighter squadrons, the Russian, Rumanian or Italian Fronts, operations in the Middle East, or myriad other WWI aviation topics you can't go wrong with Over The Front!
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The issue opens with author Michael O’Neal’s study of post-war casualties at the 3rd Air Instruction Center. Steve Ruffin visits France to view the memorials to fallen American airmen, and Thomas Wildenberg examines Spenser Grey’s role in the origins of strategic bombing. Finally, Robin D. Smith views Manfred von Richthofen’s connection to Ostrowo, Poland and a possible romantic relationship there. We conclude with Charles Walthall’s Tangible Links and Peter Kilduff’s Between the Bookends.
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 512 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.
Editor Michael O’Neal opens with author Michael O’Neal’s third article on American training casualties at Issoudun, covering the period from August 1918 to the war’s end. Tom Callen uses inscriptions in a German edition of a French philosophical book to look at the return from captivity of Heinz von Beaulieu-Marconnay and Gustav Bähren. Dr. Peter Fedders examines the battle of the Somme and the role air power (on both sides) played during the six months of the campaign. And finally Mike...
Volumes 21 through 30 are now being sold at a mere $40/volume, or $15/issue for the single issues. So now is the time to fill in some of the gaps in your collection. Some issues are sold out; there's a line through the cover illustration on those and the we are not offering the volume they would be in. Volumes 31-34 are $60 each, with individual issues $20 a copy. Where they are available, Volumes before Volume 21 are $20 each. Single issues are still $15 for issues in those volumes.
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...
