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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
61 England Lindfield, H. 6
62 USA Lindsay, Robert Opie 6
63 South Africa Lindup, Ernest 5
64 Australia Lingham, George Alexander 6
65 Austro-Hungarian Empire Linke-Crawford, Frank 27
66 Australia Little, Robert Alexander 47
67 Canada Little, Robert Hazen 5
68 England Liversedge, Sydney Tyndall 13
69 South Africa Lloyd, George Lawrence 8
70 Wales Lloyd Williams, John Jordan 5
71 Germany Loeffler (Löffler), Otto 15
72 Germany Loerzer, Bruno 44
73 Germany Loerzer, Fritz 11
74 Germany Loewenhardt (Löwenhardt), Erich 54
75 Russia Loiko, Ivan 6
Records - 61 to 75 of 94
 
 
 
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