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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 England Godfrey, Frank 12
47 Germany Goering (Göring), Hermann 22
48 Germany Goerth, Hans 7
49 Germany Goettsch (Göttsch), Walter 20
50 England Gompertz, Harry Christopher Travers 5
51 France Gond, Maurice Roch 6
52 England Gonne, Michael Edward 5
53 Germany Gontermann, Heinrich 39
54 England Good, Herbert Barrett 5
55 England Goode, Harry King 15
56 England Goodison, Henry Arthur Frank 5
57 England Gopsill, Kenneth Lloyd 5
58 New Zealand Gordon, Frederick Stanley 9
59 Australia Gordon, John Rutherford 15
60 Scotland Gordon, Robert MacIntyre 9
Records - 46 to 60 of 104
 
 
 
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