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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
1426 USA Tobin, Edgar Gardner 6
1427 Australia Tonkin, Albert Victor 6
1428 Australia Traill, James Hamilton 6
1429 Canada Trapp, George Leonard 6
1430 Germany Treptow, Reinhard 6
1431 South Africa Tudhope, Philip Murray 6
1432 England Tuffield, Thomas Cecil Silwood 6
1433 Ireland Tyrrell, William Upton 6
1434 Russia Vakulovsky, Konstantin 6
1435 Germany Vallendor, Hermann 6
1436 USA Vasconcells, Jerry Cox 6
1437 USA Vernam, Remington 6
1438 Germany Waldhausen, Hans 6
1439 England Walker, Eric 6
1440 England Walkerdine, Bernard Albert 6
 
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