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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 South Africa Nel, William Joseph Baynes 7
17 Germany Neuenhofen, Wilhelm 15
18 England Neville, Roger Henry Gartside 5
19 England Newland, Arthur Ernest 22
20 England Newnham, Maurice Ashdown 18
21 England Newsome, Thomas Henry 5
22 Italy Nicelli, Giovanni 9
23 Germany Niederhoff, Alfred 7
24 Germany Niethammer, Werner 6
25 Austro-Hungarian Empire Nikitsch, Karl 6
26 England Noble, Walter 12
27 England Noel, Tom Cecil 24
28 France Nogues, Marcel Joseph Maurice 13
29 Germany Noltenius, Friedrich Theodor 21
30 Wales Norton, Ernest William 9
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