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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 Germany Traenkner (Tränkner), Oswald 5
47 Australia Traill, James Hamilton 6
48 England Traill, Thomas Cathcart 8
49 Scotland Tranter, Alexander 7
50 Canada Trapp, George Leonard 6
51 England Travers, Frederick Dudley 9
52 England Travers, Herbert Gardner 5
53 Germany Treiber, Karl 7
54 Germany Treptow, Reinhard 6
55 Australia Trescowthick, Norman Charles 7
56 England Trevethan, Richard Michael 12
57 England Trollope, John Lightfoot 18
58 Germany Tschentschel, Gerold 5
59 Canada Tudhope, John Henry 10
60 South Africa Tudhope, Philip Murray 6
Records - 46 to 60 of 69
 
 
 
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