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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
151 Germany Straehle (Strähle), Paul 15
152 USA Strahm, Victor Herbert 5
153 England Strange, Gilbert John 7
154 Germany Strasser, Georg 7
155 Russia Strizhesky, Valdimir 7
156 Austro-Hungarian Empire Strohschneider, Ernst 15
157 Germany Struenklenberg (Strünklenberg), Karl 5
158 England Strugnell, William Victor 6
159 England Stuart Wortley, Rothesay Nicholas Montagu 6
160 England Stubbs, Charles Lionel 7
161 England Stubbs, John Stevenson 11
162 Germany Student, Kurt Arthur Benno 6
163 Germany Stutz, Hermann 6
164 Russia Suk, Grigory 9
165 England Summers, John Kenneth 8
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