2013 marks the 28th year of production of our outstanding journal "Over the Front" ; free with membership in the League of WWI Aviation Historians. 2013 will be another exciting year of outstanding historical articles in our world class and the cost of membership remains at $60. To sign up visit the sign up page or download our membership form. The League remains the pre eminent group for all things WWI Aviation History. Be a part the great community that is the League of WWI Aviation Historians"
"The League of WWI Aviation Historians" is now on Facebook! J.R Williams has formed a group called "Friends of the League of WWI Aviation Historians". All Facebook members are invited to join our group, which is one of several WWI Aviation themed groups on Facebook. Find us here.
The meeting of the League's "Cross and Cockade" Chapter will be held on November 10, from 11:30 AM to 4:00 PM. Venue is Klas' Restaurant on Cermak Boulevard in Cicero.
The meeting of the League's Mid-Atlantic Chapter will be at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Details...
Come out to the Museum of Flight in Seattle for this great event. Among the scheduled speakers are League members Alan Toelle, Terence Finnegan and League President J.R. Williams. For more information visit the Museum of Flight website
The next seminar of the New England/New York Chapter of the World War One Historical Association will be on 10 March 2012 at the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, CT (near Bradley International Airport). In accordance with the venue, many of the talks will be aviation-related.
Guest speakers include League Members Lance Bronnenkant, Bill Jackson, Steve Suddaby, John Guttman and Carl Bobrow. If you are in the area, please try to attend.http://www.ww1ha.org/neny2012.htm
Meeting of the League's Mid-Atlantic Chapter at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Details...
Meeting of the League's Mid-Atlantic Chapter at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Details...
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Club and Banquet Center (formerly Officers Club) in the Courtyard Room. Details...
Meeting of the League's Mid-Atlantic Chapter at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Details...
For more information viewWorld War I Aviation Events.
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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...
