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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
1486 Flag Rumpel, Theodor 5
1487 Flag Runge, Richard 8
1488 Flag Rusby, Reginald Howard 10
1489 Flag Russell, John Bernard 5
1490 Flag Rutherford, William Jackson 8
1491 Flag Sabattier De Vignolle, Jacques Victor 5
1492 Flag Sabelli, Giovanni 5
1493 Flag Sachsenberg, Gotthard 31
1494 Flag Safonov, Mikhail 5
1495 Flag Saint, Howard John Thomas 7
1496 Flag Salter, Ernest James 9
1497 Flag Sanday, William Douglas Stock 5
1498 Flag Sanderson, Ivan Couper 11
1499 Flag Santelli, Paul Marie Raphael 7
1500 Flag Sardier, Jean Marie Luc Gilbert 15
Total Records: 1865
90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109
       
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