One of the greatest exponents of the Fokker DVII was Rudolf Berthold who, with 44 confirmed victories, was sixth on the roll of German aces. Appointed to command Jagdgeschwader N r 2 in the last year of the war, Berthold suffered continuous pain from a wound that rendered his right arm useless and Prompted him to have his controls altered to allow him to fly at all. At least 16 of his victories were gained during a period when his wound was daily rejecting splinters of suppurating bone. Active in the post-war right-wing Freikorps, Bertholdwas murdered by a band of communist thugs strangled with the ribbon of his own Ordre Pour le Mérite.
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