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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
1 Austro-Hungarian Empire Nachod, Kurt 5
2 Germany Naether (Näther), Max 26
3 Germany Nagler, Alfons 10
4 England Nangle, Hugh 5
5 England Napier, Charles George Douglas 9
6 Scotland Napier, Ian Patrick Robert 12
7 Italy Nardini, Guido 6
8 Canada Nash, Gerald Ewart 6
9 England Nash, Thomas Walter 8
10 Germany Nathanael, Edmund 15
11 France Naudin, Gustave 6
12 France Navarre, Jean Marie Dominique 12
13 Austro-Hungarian Empire Navratil, Friedrich 10
14 England Naylor, Walter 14
15 Germany Neckel, Ulrich 30
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