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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   Date of Death  
646 Waddington, Melville Wells 14 Aug 1945
647 Richthofen, Wolfram Freiherr von 12 Jun 1945
648 Greim, Robert Ritter von 24 May 1945
649 Drummond, Roy Maxwell 27 Mar 1945
650 Thom, Karl 03 Mar 1945
651 Kasza, Alexander ?? Feb 1945
652 Aue, Paul ?? ?? 1945
653 Heyrowsky, Adolf ?? ?? 1945
654 McKenzie, Robert William ?? ?? 1945
655 Wedel, Hasso von ?? ?? 1945 KIA
656 de Marmier, Lionel Alexandre Pierre 30 Dec 1944 KIFA
657 Tidmarsh, David Mary 27 Nov 1944
658 Del'Haye, Roger Amedee 18 Nov 1944 KIFA
659 Klein, Hans 18 Nov 1944
660 Guyou, Fernand Eugene 01 Sep 1944
Total Records: 1863
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