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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
181 Germany Buelow-Bothkamp (Bülow-Bothkamp), Harry von 6
182 Germany Buelow-Bothkamp (Bülow-Bothkamp), Walter von 28
183 Germany Buettner (Büttner), Siegfried 13
184 France Buisson, Alexandre 5
185 Canada Bulmer, George William 9
186 England Bunting, Stanton William 7
187 England Burbidge, Leslie Williams 6
188 Germany Burckhardt, Friedrich-Karl 5
189 Canada Burden, Henry John 16
190 USA Burdick, Howard 8
191 England Burge, Philip Scott 11
192 South Africa Burger, Malcolm Graham Stewart 5
193 Canada Burgess, David Luther 7
194 Germany Burkard, August 6
195 Austro-Hungarian Empire Busa, Julius 5
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