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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 Australia Smith, Ross MacPherson 12
107 England Smith, Sydney Philip 5
108 England Smith, William Thomas 5
109 Scotland Smith, William Watson 8
110 Scotland Smith-Grant, John Gordon Smith Cheetham 6
111 South Africa Smuts, Neil Ritz 5
112 England Smyth, Bertram Hutchinson 8
113 England Smythe, Cyril Richard 6
114 England Sneath, Wilfred Harry 5
115 England Soar, Reginald Rhys 12
116 Canada Soden, Frank Ormond 27
117 England Solly, Arthur Norbury 9
118 Germany Sommer, Wilhelm 5
119 Germany Sonneck, Erich 6
120 Canada Sorsoleil, John Victor 14
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