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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 Victories
1006 Flag Leitch, Alfred Alexander 7
1007 Flag Leith, James Leith 9
1008 Flag Leman, Ernst 5
1009 Flag Lennox, James Scott 5
1010 Flag Lenoir, Maxime Albert 11
1011 Flag Lenz, Alfred 6
1012 Flag Leonardi, Alvaro 8
1013 Flag Leps, Adrien Louis Jacques 12
1014 Flag Leptien, Hermann 7
1015 Flag Leroy De Boiseaumarie, Pierre Marie Gabriel Vincent Ernest 5
1016 Flag Letts, John Herbert Towne 13
1017 Flag Leusch, Wilhelm 5
1018 Flag Levy (Lévy), André Robert 6
1019 Flag Lewis, Cecil Arthur 8
1020 Flag Lewis, Gwilym Hugh 12
Total Records: 1865
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