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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 England Sims, Charles John 9
92 England Slater, James Anderson 24
93 South Africa Slatter, Leonard Horatio 7
94 South Africa Sloley, Robert Hugh 8
95 England Sloot, Lambertus Louis Theodore 5
96 Scotland Smart, Wallace Alexander 5
97 Russia Smirnov (Smirnoff), Ivan Vasilievich 11
98 Scotland Smith, David Esplin 6
99 Canada Smith, Emerson Arthur Lincoln Fisher 7
100 Australia Smith, Francis Ryan 16
101 England Smith, George Henry Benjamin 5
102 England Smith, Harry Coleman 5
103 Canada Smith, James Robert 5
104 Canada Smith, John Henry 8
105 Canada Smith, Langley Frank Willard 8
Records - 91 to 105 of 174
 
 
 
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