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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
76 England Green, Gilbert Ware Murlis 9
77 England Green, James Hubert Ronald 6
78 England Green, Wilfrid Barratt 7
79 England Green, William Edward 9
80 Canada Greene, John Edmund 15
81 Germany Greim, Robert Ritter von 28
82 England Grenfell, Eustace Osborne 8
83 USA Grey, Charles Gossage 5
84 Ireland Gribben, Edward 5
85 Canada Griffith, Hugh Bradford 5
86 USA Griffith, John Sharpe 7
87 England Grinnell-Milne, Duncan William 6
88 England Groom, Victor Emmanuel 8
89 Germany Groos, Gisbert-Wilhelm 7
90 France Gros, Louis Prosper 9
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