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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
736 Ireland O'Grady, Conn Standish 9
737 Wales Parry, Samuel 9
738 Germany Pech, Karl 9
739 France Peronneau (Péronneau), Henri Albert 9
740 England Pierce, Edmund 9
741 England Ransley, Frank Cecil 9
742 England Reed, Valentine 9
743 England Reed, William Ernest 9
744 Scotland Reid, George Ranald MacFarlane 9
745 Canada Rogers, William Wendell 9
746 Germany Rosenstein, Willi 9
747 England Rowley, Herbert Victor 9
748 Canada Salter, Ernest James 9
749 Germany Schattauer, Karl 9
750 Germany Schulte, Adolf 9
 
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