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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
1396 Germany Scholtz, Edgar 6
1397 Germany Schulz, Wilhelm 6
1398 Germany Schuster, Günther 6
1399 Germany Schuetze (Schütze), Erich 6
1400 England Scott, Laurence Henry 6
1401 Germany Seywald, Heinrich 6
1402 United States Shapard, Evander 6
1403 England Sharpe, Thomas Sydney 6
1404 England Simpson, Edward Arthur 6
1405 Scotland Smith-Grant, John Gordon Smith Cheetham 6
1406 Scotland Smith, David Esplin 6
1407 England Smythe, Cyril Richard 6
1408 Germany Sonneck, Erich 6
1409 France Soulier, Constant Frederic 6
1410 Germany Splitgerber, Otto 6
 
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