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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
91 Scotland Grossart, William 5
92 England Grosvenor, Robert Arthur 16
93 Austro-Hungarian Empire Gruber, Kurt 11
94 France Guerin (Guérin), Gabriel Fernand Charles 23
95 France Guerrier, François 5
96 France Guertiau, Julien Anatole 8
97 Germany Guettler (Güttler), Wolfgang 8
98 France Guiguet, Joseph-Henri 5
99 England Gurdon, John Everard 28
100 Germany Gussmann, Siegfried 5
101 USA Guthrie, Murray Kenneth 6
102 Germany Gutknecht, Adolf 8
103 France Guynemer, Georges Marie Ludovic Jules 53
104 France Guyou, Fernand Eugene 12
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