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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
1621 England Hay, Hugh Allport 5
1622 England Hay, Roger Bolton 5
1623 Australia Headlam, Eustace Slade 5
1624 USA Healy, James Andrew 5
1625 Austro-Hungarian Empire Hefty, Friedrich 5
1626 Germany Hengst, Friedrich 5
1627 England Herring, Robert Samuel 5
1628 Germany Hetze, Kurt 5
1629 England Hines, George Frederick 5
1630 England Hodgkinson, William 5
1631 England Holme, Robert Charles Lyon 5
1632 France Homo, Paul Constant 5
1633 South Africa Howe, Percy Frank Charles 5
1634 USA Howell, Malcolm Clifford 5
1635 England Hughes, David James 5
 
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