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Over the Front
1997: Volume 12, Number 1

Cover Art

In First Solo, aviation artist James Dietz depicts two Curtiss JN-4s preparing for flight, a scene typical at any of the training fields operated by the RFC and the USAS in Canada and Texas in 1917-1918.


Table of Contents

Features

The Silent Volunteers by Stewart K. Taylor

Roster of RFC, RNAS and RAF "Silent Volunteers" at the the Front by Stewart K. Taylor

Pranged by Stewart K. Taylor

Unsung Sextet by Stewart K. Taylor

The Baron's 67th by Stewart K. Taylor

"In Case I Should Not Return" by Stewart K. Taylor

What's In a Name? by Robert Pearson


Departments

Between the Lines
The Seminar | The "Year of the Chapters" | New USAF Museum Director | The Great Flood | The Mike Carr Student Paper Competition | In Memoriam: W.T. "Bill" Evans

Mentioned in Dispatches
Members' Research | Errata | Addenda

Between the Bookends
The Norman Thompson File

Taps
Cecil Arthur Lewis, M.C. | Gwilym Hugh Lewis, D.F.C. | William J. Devine | Gerald H. Hughes