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"With a bullet through his head, he fell from an altitude of 9,000 feet--a beautiful death."
Baron Manfred van Richthofen employed this sentence in a letter to his mother to describe the end of his closest friend and oldest flying comrade, the young Count van Holck with whom he had had his first air adventures in Russia.