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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
31 England Reid, Guy Patrick Spence 5
32 Germany Reimann, Leopold 5
33 Germany Reinhard, Wilhelm 20
34 Italy Rennella, Cosimo 7
35 Italy Resch, Alessandro 5
36 France Revol-Tissot, Charles Alfred 5
37 England Rhodes, Hervey 11
38 England Rhys Davids, Arthur Percival Foley 25
39 England Rice-Oxley, Alan 6
40 Australia Richards, Cecil Roy 12
41 England Richardson, Herbert Brian 15
42 Australia Richardson, Lancelot Lytton 7
43 Germany Richthofen, Lothar Ritter von 40
44 Germany Richthofen, Manfred Albrecht Ritter von 80
45 Germany Richthofen, Wolfram Freiherr von 8
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