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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
1441 England Walter, Stephen Reginald Parke 6
1442 Canada Watson, Harry Ellis 6
1443 Austro-Hungarian Empire Weber, Rudolf 6
1444 USA Wehner, Joseph Frank 6
1445 Australia Weir, William James Alexander 6
1446 Germany Wessels, Heinrich 6
1447 Germany Westphal, Siegfried 6
1448 South Africa Westwood, William Graham 6
1449 England Wheeler, William Allan 6
1450 England White, Victor Rodney Stokes 6
1451 Germany Wiehle, Ernst 6
1452 England Wilton, Frederick Charles 6
1453 Scotland Winkler, William Otto Brash 6
1454 Canada Wood, Harry Alison 6
1455 France Achard, Albert 5
 
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