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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 Tuffield, Thomas Cecil Silwood 6
62 Germany Turck, Paul 10
63 Australia Turnbull, John Seymour 5
64 England Turner, Arthur Henry 5
65 England Turner, Francis McDougall Charlewood 7
66 England Turner, Ronald William 9
67 Germany Tutschek, Adolf von 27
68 Ireland Tyrrell, Walter Alexander 17
69 Ireland Tyrrell, William Upton 6
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