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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 Gordon-Bennett, Richard 5
62 England Gorringe, Frank Clifton 14
63 Australia Gossip, George Hatfield Dingley 6
64 Germany Gossner, Max 8
65 England Gould, Herbert Ruska 6
66 Canada Goulding, Acheson Gosford 9
67 Austro-Hungarian Empire Graeser (Gräser), Franz 18
68 South Africa Graham, Gray Gavin Lynedoch 13
69 Scotland Graham, Ronald 5
70 Canada Grange, Edward Rochfort 5
71 Scotland Grant, James 8
72 Australia Grant, Walter Irving Newby 7
73 Germany Grassmann, Justus 10
74 Scotland Gray, William Edrington 7
75 Canada Green, Charles Duncan Bremner 11
Records - 61 to 75 of 104
 
 
 
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