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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
136 England Milne, John Theobald 9
137 Australia Minifie, Richard Pearman 21
138 England Minot, Laurence 6
139 England Mitchell, James 11
140 England Mitchell, Leslie Edwin 8
141 Germany Mohnicke, Eberhard 9
142 Germany Mohr, Alfred 6
143 France Moissinac, Xavier Jean-Marie Louis 7
144 Ireland Molesworth, William Earle 18
145 Canada Molyneux, Harold Arthur Sydney 5
146 Germany Monnington, Kurt Adolf 8
147 France Montange, Paul 5
148 England Montgomery, Kenneth Barbour 12
149 France Montrion, René 11
150 South Africa Moody, Basil Henry 9
Records - 136 to 150 of 170
 
 
 
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