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An ace is a military aviator or airman credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft. The term ace originated in World War I when French newspapers described Adolphe Pègoud as l'as (French for ace) after he shot down five German aircraft.
 
    Name Score
1501 Canada Bottrill, William Eric 5
1502 England Bowles, Francis Stephen 5
1503 Germany Bowski, Hans 5
1504 Germany Boy, Herbert 5
1505 USA Boysen, Harold Koch 5
1506 Germany Breiten-Landenberg, Otto von 5
1507 England Bremridge, Godfrey 5
1508 England Bridgeman, Orlando Clive 5
1509 Australia Brown, Allan Runcieman 5
1510 USA Brown, Sydney MacGillvary 5
1511 England Bruce-Norton, John 5
1512 USA Buckley, Harold Robert 5
1513 France Buisson, Alexandre 5
1514 Germany Burckhardt, Friedrich-Karl 5
1515 South Africa Burger, Malcolm Graham Stewart 5
 
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