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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 Ireland Price, Guy William 12
77 England Price, Stephen William 7
78 England Price, William Thomas 7
79 England Pritt, Walbanke Ashby 5
80 Ireland Proctor, Thomas 5
81 Scotland Prothero, Phillip Bernard 8
82 Austro-Hungarian Empire Puerer (Pürer), Josef 6
83 Germany Puetter (Pütter), Fritz 25
84 Germany Puetz (Pütz), Johann 7
85 Canada Puffer, Stanley Asa 7
86 Canada Pugh, John Edwardes 5
87 England Pullan, Hartley 5
88 Russia Pulpe, Eduard 5
89 Scotland Purdom, Thomas Laurence 13
90 England Purvis, W.C. 5
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