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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 Scotland Findlay, Charles 14
17 South Africa Findlay, John Pierce 6
18 Scotland Findlay, Maxwell Hutcheon 14
19 Australia Finlay, Garfield 8
20 England Firth, John Charles Bradley 11
21 England Fitzgibbon, Desmond Fitzgerald 8
22 Germany Fitzner, Otto 9
23 France Flachaire, Georges Charles Marie François 8
24 Germany Fleischer, Alfred 6
25 Canada Fleming, Austin L. 8
26 England Fletcher, Ronald Malcolm 26
27 France Fonck, René Paul 75
28 England Foot, Ernest Leslie 5
29 Canada Forman, James Henry 9
30 Italy Fornagiari, Guglielmo 6
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