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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
241 England Swale, Edwin 17
242 England Tempest, Edmund Roger 17
243 Ireland Tyrrell, Walter Alexander 17
244 England Baldwin, Owen Morgan 16
245 Canada Bell, Gerald Gordon 16
246 Austro-Hungarian Empire Boensch (Bönsch), Eugen 16
247 Germany Bormann, Ernst 16
248 Canada Burden, Henry John 16
249 France Chaput, Jean 16
250 Wales Chick, John Stanley 16
251 USA Coler, Eugene Seeley 16
252 Ireland Cowell, John 16
253 England Digby-Worsley, Bruce 16
254 England Elton, Ernest John 16
255 Austro-Hungarian Empire Fejes, Stefan 16
 
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