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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 England Mealing, Maurice Edmund 14
107 Italy Mecozzi, Amedeo 5
108 England Medlicott, Harold William 5
109 Canada Meek, Earl Stanley 6
110 England Meggitt, William Geoffrey 6
111 Germany Meinecke, Emil 6
112 South Africa Meintjes, Henry 8
113 USA Meissner, James Armand 8
114 England Mellersh, Francis John Williamson 5
115 England Mellings, Harold Thomas 15
116 Germany Menckhoff, Karl 39
117 Germany Mendel, Karl 7
118 England Menendez, Frank Tremar Sibly 6
119 Scotland Merchant, Alexander Walker 8
120 England Merritt, Horace Ernest 9
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