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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
16 England Walter, Stephen Reginald Parke 6
17 Germany Walz, Franz 7
18 England Ward, Edward Henry 5
19 England Wareing, Guy Wilbraham 9
20 USA Warman, Clive Wilson 12
21 England Warner, John Weston 8
22 England Warren, Leslie Reginald 8
23 Canada Watson, Harry Ellis 6
24 New Zealand Watson, Herbert Gilles 14
25 Canada Watson, Kenneth Bowman 9
26 England Wear, Albert Edward 9
27 England Weare, Frank Gerald Craven 15
28 England Webb, Noel William Ward 14
29 Austro-Hungarian Empire Weber, Rudolf 6
30 Germany Wedel, Erich Rüdiger von 13
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