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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
46 South Africa Beauchamp-Proctor, Andrew Frederick Weatherby 54
47 Germany Beaulieu-Marconnay, Olivier Freiherr von 25
48 USA Beaver, Wilfred 19
49 England Beck, Alexander 11
50 Germany Becker, Hermann 23
51 Germany Beckmann, Ludwig 8
52 Wales Beddow, Herbert Howell 10
53 Italy Bedendo, Sebastiano 5
54 England Belgrave, James Dacres 18
55 England Bell, Charles Gordon 5
56 South Africa Bell, Douglas John 20
57 England Bell, George Stanley 6
58 Canada Bell, Gerald Gordon 16
59 Canada Bell, Hilliard Brooke 10
60 Canada Bell-Irving, Alan Duncan 7
Records - 46 to 60 of 198
 
 
 
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