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Over the Front
1997: Volume 12, Number 3

Cover Art

Artist and League member Mike O'Neal depicts American Ace George Vaughn in action in Sopwith Camel F6024 ('N') on September 22, 1918 against a blue nosed Fokker D.VII of Jasta 36 and a D.VII in the yellow markings of Jasta 27. Both units were a part of Jagdgeschwader III, which decimated the 17th Aero Squadron in an earlier encounter on August 26.


Table of Contents

Features

Karl Allmenröder Remembered translated by Jan Hayzlett

Combat Success in American Aviation: 1918 by LCDR Michael J. Morris

Combat Effectiveness: United States Marine Corps Aviation in the First World War by LCDR Michael J. Morris

Otto Roosen--Three View by by John M. Gray, Ted Sacher and Ross Walton

The Girl He Left Behind by Jan Hayzlett and Suzanne Fischer

The First Yale Unit by Daniel P. Davison

Introduction to Aerial Combat: A French View by Albert Deullin


Departments

Between the Lines
Seminar in the Desert | Membership Renewal | Winners, Winners!

Mentioned in Dispatches
Members' Research | Errata | Addenda

Between the Bookends
von Richthofen: The Legend Evaluated | McNamara, VC -- A Hero's Dilemma | A Weekend With the Great War: Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Great War Interconference Seminar