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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 West, Mortimer Sackville 5
47 England Weston, David John 13
48 Germany Westphal, Siegfried 6
49 South Africa Westwood, William Graham 6
50 Canada Whealy, Arthur Treloar 27
51 England Wheeler, William Allan 6
52 England Whistler, Harold Alfred 23
53 England White, Harold Albert 7
54 England White, Hugh Granville 7
55 Canada White, James Butler 12
56 Canada White, Joseph Leonard Maries 22
57 England White, Victor Rodney Stokes 6
58 USA White, Wilbert Wallace 8
59 England Whitehead, Lewis Ewart 5
60 England Whitham, Charles Myers 5
Records - 46 to 60 of 95
 
 
 
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