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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
1786 Germany Schumacher, Friedrich 5
1787 Germany Schwartz, Konrad 5
1788 New Zealand Scott, Alan John Lance 5
1789 England Seabrook, Joseph Powell 5
1790 USA Seerley, John Joseph 5
1791 Germany Seit, Kurt 5
1792 England Shannon, Christopher James 5
1793 England Sharpe, Frank 5
1794 USA Shoemaker, Harold Goodman 5
1795 Germany Siempelkamp, Eugen 5
1796 USA Simonds, Francis May 5
1797 Australia Simonson, Eric Landon 5
1798 England Sloot, Lambertus Louis Theodore 5
1799 Scotland Smart, Wallace Alexander 5
1800 England Smith, Sydney Philip 5
 
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