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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
106 Germany Boelcke, Oswald 40
107 Germany Boenigk, Oskar Freiherr von 26
108 Germany Boening (Böning), Walter 17
109 Germany Boenisch (Bönisch), Erich 5
110 Austro-Hungarian Empire Boensch (Bönsch), Eugen 16
111 Canada Boger, William Otway 5
112 Germany Bohnenkamp, Karl 15
113 Germany Bohny, Karl 8
114 Germany Bolle, Karl 36
115 Germany Bona, Paul 6
116 England Bond, William Arthur 5
117 Germany Bongartz, Heinrich 33
118 France Bonneton, Fernand 9
119 England Booker, Charles Dawson 29
120 Canada Booth, Edward Borgfeldt 5
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