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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
1411 England Spurling, Arthur Rowe 6
1412 Germany Staudacher, Georg 6
1413 Italy Stoppani, Mario 6
1414 USA Stovall, William Howard 6
1415 England Strugnell, William Victor 6
1416 England Stuart Wortley, Rothesay Nicholas Montagu 6
1417 Germany Student, Kurt Arthur Benno 6
1418 Germany Stutz, Hermann 6
1419 Canada Swayze, William Keith 6
1420 England Sykes, Ronald 6
1421 Canada Symons, Harry Lutz 6
1422 South Africa Thompson, Cecil Robert 6
1423 Australia Thompson, Claude Robert James 6
1424 Germany Thoene (Thöne), Wilhelm 6
1425 Italy Ticconi, Romolo 6
 
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