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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 Canada Sharman, John Edward 8
77 England Sharpe, Frank 5
78 England Sharpe, Thomas Sydney 6
79 Australia Shepherd, Alfred Seymour 10
80 Canada Shields, William Ernest 24
81 USA Shoemaker, Harold Goodman 5
82 Canada Shook, Alexander MacDonald 12
83 England Siddall, Joseph Henry 9
84 England Sidebottom, William 14
85 Germany Siempelkamp, Eugen 5
86 USA Simon, Walter Carl 8
87 USA Simonds, Francis May 5
88 Australia Simonson, Eric Landon 5
89 England Simpson, Edward Arthur 6
90 Australia Simpson, George Goodman 8
Records - 76 to 90 of 174
 
 
 
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