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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 Pierce, Edmund 9
47 Italy Pierozzi, Orazio 7
48 South Africa Pilditch, Gerald 5
49 France Pillon, Edmond Jacques Marcel 8
50 England Pinder, John William 17
51 USA Pineau, Cleo Francis 6
52 France Pinsard, Armand 27
53 Germany Pippart, Hans Martin 22
54 Russia Pishvanov, Alexander 5
55 South Africa Pithey, Croye Rothes 10
56 Germany Plange, Richard 7
57 England Platel, Sidney Henri 5
58 Germany Plauth, Karl 17
59 France Plessis, Constant Emmanuel 6
60 Germany Poeschke, Friedrich 8
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