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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.
 
Victories:

Viewing all records: 1865
    Name Score
1846 France Wertheim (Wertheimer), Pierre Armand 5
1847 England West, Mortimer Sackville 5
1848 England Whitehead, Lewis Ewart 5
1849 England Whitham, Charles Myers 5
1850 Canada Whitney, Robert Kenneth 5
1851 Germany Wiessner, Ernst 5
1852 England Wilkins, Frank Stafford 5
1853 Wales Williams, Edward George Herbert Caradoc 5
1854 England Williams, Francis Jefferies 5
1855 Wales Wilson, Cecil Frederick Charles 5
1856 England Winter, Rupert Randolph 5
1857 Germany Wissemann, Kurt 5
1858 Austro-Hungarian Empire Wognar, Franz 5
1859 England Womersley, John Herbert Greenwood 5
1860 England Woollven, Charles Henry Chapman 5
 
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