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Polish Fokker D.VIIs (c) 13th Squadron and (d) 15th Squadron.

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1. Fokker D.VII in White Russian service 1919 still baring German Lozenge camouflage. 2. Fokker D.VII in White Russian service 1921. 3. Fokker D.VII in Red Russian service 1919 also still baring German Lozenge camouflage. 4. Fokker D.VII in Red Russian service. 5. Willy Rosenstein’s Fokker D.VII while serving with Jasta 18 in late 1918.

Postwar (WWI) service

Postwar, the D.VII saw extensive use in the United States, where 142 captured examples were evaluated. War prizes were also sent to France, Great Britain, and Canada.

Other countries used the D.VII operationally. The D.VII served in the Polish (around 50), Dutch, Finnish, Lithuania, Danish Swiss, and Belgian air forces. It was the most numerous Polish fighter of the Polish-Soviet War. The D.VII proved to be so popular that Fokker completed and sold a large number of D.VII airframes that he had smuggled into the Netherlands after the Armistice. As late as 1929, the Alfred Comte Company manufactured eight new D.VII fighters under licence for the Swiss Fliegertruppe.

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