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| | The White Falcons: the White Air Forces 1918-1920 |
 | | Finland's official first aircraft, a Swedish Thulin-built Morane parasol, was the gift of a private citizen and foreigner, Swedish Count Eric von Rosen, who flew into the country with his pilot shortly after independence (a German Albatros B.II may, in fact, have arrived earlier, but this makes a less attractive story). |
 | | This windfall gave the Lithuanian Aviation Company a number of Albatros trainers and C-type two seaters, Halberstadt Cl.IIs, Cl.IVs, and C.Vs, LVG C.Vs and C.VIs, DFW C.Vs, and Fokker D.VIIs. |
 | | The Count's personal lucky charm was a blue swastika, which the Finns quixotically adopted. |
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