List of World War II flying aces
This is a list of World War II flying aces. Fighter aces in World War II had tremendously varying kill scores, affected as they were by many factors: the pilot's skill level, the performance of the airplane he flew and those he flew against, how long he served, his opportunity to meet the enemy in the air (Allied to Axis disproportion), whether he was the formation's leader or a wingman, the standards his air service brought to the awarding of victory credits, et cetera.
Towards the end of the war, the Axis powers had largely exhausted their supply of skilled pilots and the replacements did not have as much opportunity to gain enough experience to be successful. Additionally, national policies differed; German, Italian, and Japanese[1] pilots tended to return to the cockpit over and over again until they were killed.[N 1]
It is not clear what impact each nation's rules for score crediting have on the counts listed below. Germans credited a shared victory to only one pilot, while the French credited full victory to all participants. British, Finnish and US air forces credited fractional shares of aerial victories, resulting in fractions, such as 11½, which might be for example 10 aircraft and three shares with the second pilot. Some U.S. commands also credited aircraft destroyed on the ground. The Soviets counted only solo kills, while group kills were counted separately, as did the Japanese. The Italian Air Force did not officially credit victories to individual pilots, but to their unit as a whole. Probable kills are usually left out of the list.
It is necessary to emphasize that the question of assessing and comparing the success rate of fighters by number of victories is one of the more problematic. There are disputes about what is "shot down" and what is "air victory", but the most problematic seems to be credibility of reports and reliability of its confirmation, which was substantially different in particular air forces. As the most reliable is considered the confirmation of the victories in RAF, using comparison of testimonials of participants and—if possible—film material.
Flying aces
Gallery
- Ivan Kozhedub, Top Allied ace in WWII
- Alexander Pokryshkin, Soviet ace of World War II
- Mato Dukovac, the highest scoring Croatian ace
- Ilmari Juutilainen, top flying ace of the Finnish Air Force and the highest scoring non-German fighter pilot of all time
- Richard Bong, the highest scoring US ace
- Robert S. Johnson, the first USAAF fighter pilot in the European theater to surpass Eddie Rickenbacker's World War I score of 26 victories.
- Tetsuzo Iwamoto, Japanese Navy fighter ace, often credited with being the top scoring Japanese ace
- Teresio Vittorio Martinoli, the highest scoring Regia Aeronautica ace
- Alexandru Șerbănescu, highest scoring Romanian ace at the time of his death (second highest overall)[2]
Table
Name | Country | Service(s) | Aerial Victories | Other Aerial Victories | Notes |
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Erich Hartmann | Luftwaffe | 352 | Top ace of all time. First ever with 300 victories, achieved coincident with Double-ace in a day | ||
Gerhard Barkhorn | Luftwaffe | 301 | |||
Günther Rall | Luftwaffe | 275 | |||
Otto Kittel † | Luftwaffe | 267 | Top Focke-Wulf 190 ace | ||
Walter Nowotny † | Luftwaffe | 258 | Double-ace in a day on two different occasions. First to 250 | ||
Wilhelm Batz | Luftwaffe | 237 | |||
Erich Rudorffer | Luftwaffe | 222 | Jet ace with 12 victories in Me 262, Double-ace in a day | ||
Heinz Bär | Luftwaffe | 220 | Jet ace with 16 victories in Me 262 | ||
Hermann Graf | Luftwaffe | 212 | First ever with 200 victories | ||
Heinrich Ehrler † | Luftwaffe | 208 | Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262 | ||
Theodor Weissenberger | Luftwaffe | 208 | Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262 | ||
Hans Philipp † | Luftwaffe | 206 | |||
Walter Schuck | Luftwaffe | 206 | Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262 | ||
Anton Hafner † | Luftwaffe | 204 | |||
Helmut Lipfert | Luftwaffe | 203 | |||
Walter Krupinski | Luftwaffe | 197 | |||
Anton Hackl | Luftwaffe | 192 | |||
Joachim Brendel | Luftwaffe | 189 | |||
Max Stotz † | Luftwaffe | 189 | |||
Joachim Kirschner † | Luftwaffe | 188 | |||
Kurt Brändle † | Luftwaffe | 180 | |||
Günther Josten | Luftwaffe | 178 | |||
Johannes Steinhoff | Luftwaffe | 176 | Jet ace with 6 victories in Me 262 | ||
Ernst-Wilhelm Reinert | Luftwaffe | 174 | |||
Günther Schack | Luftwaffe | 174 | |||
Emil Lang † | Luftwaffe | 173 | Triple-ace in a day | ||
Horst Ademeit † | Luftwaffe | 166 | |||
Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke † | Luftwaffe | 162 | |||
Hans-Joachim Marseille † | Luftwaffe | 158 | Top scoring ace outside the Eastern Front. Destroyed most Western Allied aircraft. Triple-ace in a day | ||
Heinrich Sturm † | Luftwaffe | 158 | |||
Gerhard Thyben | Luftwaffe | 157 | |||
Hans Beisswenger † | Luftwaffe | 152 | |||
Peter Düttmann | Luftwaffe | 152 | |||
Gordon Gollob | Luftwaffe | 150 | First ever with 150 victories | ||
Fritz Tegtmeier | Luftwaffe | 146 | |||
Albin Wolf † | Luftwaffe | 144 | |||
Kurt Tanzer | Luftwaffe | 143 | |||
Friedrich-Karl Müller † | Luftwaffe | 140 | |||
Karl Gratz | Luftwaffe | 138 | |||
Heinrich Setz † | Luftwaffe | 138 | |||
Rudolf Trenkel | Luftwaffe | 138 | |||
Franz Schall † | Luftwaffe | 137 | Jet ace with 14 victories in Me 262 | ||
Walter Wolfrum | Luftwaffe | 137 | Double-ace in a day on two different occasions | ||
Adolf Dickfeld | Luftwaffe | 136 | |||
Horst-Günther von Fassong † | Luftwaffe | 136 | |||
Otto Fönnekold † | Luftwaffe | 136 | |||
Karl-Heinz Weber † | Luftwaffe | 136 | |||
Joachim Müncheberg † | Luftwaffe | 135 | |||
Hans Waldmann † | Luftwaffe | 134 | Ace in a day | ||
Alfred Grislawski | Luftwaffe | 133 | |||
Johannes Wiese | Luftwaffe | 133 | |||
Erwin Clausen † | Luftwaffe | 132 | |||
Wilhelm Lemke † | Luftwaffe | 131 | |||
Gerhard Hoffmann † | Luftwaffe | 130 | |||
Heinrich Sterr † | Luftwaffe | 130 | |||
Franz Eisenach | Luftwaffe | 129 | |||
Walther Dahl | Luftwaffe | 128 | |||
Franz Dörr | Luftwaffe | 128 | |||
Rudolf Rademacher | Luftwaffe | 126 | Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262 | ||
Josef Zwernemann † | Luftwaffe | 126 | |||
Dietrich Hrabak | Luftwaffe | 125 | |||
Wolf-Udo Ettel † | Luftwaffe | 124 | |||
Herbert Ihlefeld | Luftwaffe | 123 | +9 in Spanish Civil War | ||
Wolfgang Tonne † | Luftwaffe | 122 | |||
Heinz Marquardt | Luftwaffe | 121 | |||
Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer | Luftwaffe | 121 | Top night fighter ace. Ace in a day | ||
Robert Weiß † | Luftwaffe | 121 | |||
Friedrich Obleser | Luftwaffe | 120 | |||
Friedrich Wachowiak † | Luftwaffe | 120 | |||
Erich Leie † | Luftwaffe | 118 | |||
Franz-Josef Beerenbrock | Luftwaffe | 117 | |||
Hans-Joachim Birkner † | Luftwaffe | 117 | |||
Jakob Norz † | Luftwaffe | 117 | |||
Walter Oesau † | Luftwaffe | 117 | |||
Heinz Wernicke † | Luftwaffe | 117 | |||
August Lambert † | Luftwaffe | 116 | Triple-ace in a day | ||
Wilhelm Crinius | Luftwaffe | 114 | |||
Werner Schröer | Luftwaffe | 114 | |||
Hans Dammers † | Luftwaffe | 113 | |||
Berthold Korts † | Luftwaffe | 113 | |||
Kurt Bühligen | Luftwaffe | 112 | |||
Helmut Lent † | Luftwaffe | 110 | Night fighter ace | ||
Kurt Ubben † | Luftwaffe | 110 | |||
Franz Woidich | Luftwaffe | 110 | |||
Emil Bitsch † | Luftwaffe | 108 | |||
Hans Hahn | Luftwaffe | 108 | |||
Bernhard Vechtel | Luftwaffe | 108 | |||
Viktor Bauer | Luftwaffe | 106 | |||
Werner Lucas † | Luftwaffe | 106 | |||
Günther Lützow † | Luftwaffe | 105 | |||
Adolf Galland | Luftwaffe | 104 | Jet ace with 7 victories in Me 262 | ||
Eberhard von Boremski | Luftwaffe | 104 | |||
Heinz Sachsenberg | Luftwaffe | 104 | |||
Hartmann Grasser | Luftwaffe | 103 | |||
Siegfried Freytag | Luftwaffe | 102 | |||
Friedrich Geisshardt † | Luftwaffe | 102 | |||
Egon Mayer † | Luftwaffe | 102 | |||
Max-Hellmuth Ostermann † | Luftwaffe | 102 | |||
Josef Wurmheller † | Luftwaffe | 102 | |||
Werner Mölders † | Luftwaffe | 101 | +14 in Spanish Civil War | First ever with 100 victories | |
Rudolf Miethig † | Luftwaffe | 101 | |||
Josef Priller | Luftwaffe | 101 | |||
Ulrich Wernitz | Luftwaffe | 101 | |||
Reinhard Seiler | Luftwaffe | 100 | |||
Paul-Heinrich Dähne † | Luftwaffe | 99 | |||
Leopold Steinbatz | Luftwaffe | 99 | |||
Wolfgang Späte | Luftwaffe | 99 | Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262 | ||
Heinrich Bartels † | Luftwaffe | 99 | |||
Hans Schleef † | Luftwaffe | 99 | |||
Horst Hannig † | Luftwaffe | 98 | |||
Gustav Rödel | Luftwaffe | 98 | |||
Helmut Rüffler | Luftwaffe | 98 | |||
Helmut Mertens | Luftwaffe | 97 | |||
Hermann Schleinhege | Luftwaffe | 97 | |||
Diethelm von Eichel-Streiber | Luftwaffe | 96 | |||
Heinrich Höfemeier † | Luftwaffe | 96 | |||
Siegfried Lemke | Luftwaffe | 96 | |||
Leopold Münster † | Luftwaffe | 95 | |||
Ilmari Juutilainen | Finnish Air Force | 94 | Top non-German ace. Claimed 126 victories. Ace in a day. | ||
Rudolf Müller † | Luftwaffe | 94 | possibly 101 | ||
Rudolf Resch † | Luftwaffe | 93 | +1 in Spanish Civil War | ||
Heinrich Klöpper † | Luftwaffe | 93 | |||
Helmut Bennemann | Luftwaffe | 93 | |||
Edmund Roßmann | Luftwaffe | 93 | |||
Siegfried Schnell † | Luftwaffe | 93 | |||
Gerhard Loos † | Luftwaffe | 92 | |||
Oskar Romm | Luftwaffe | 92 | |||
Anton Resch | Luftwaffe | 91 | |||
Georg Schentke † | Luftwaffe | 91 | |||
Heinz Kemethmüller | Luftwaffe | 89 | |||
Josef Jennewein † | Luftwaffe | 86 | |||
Anton Mader | Luftwaffe | 86 | |||
Ulrich Wöhnert | Luftwaffe | 86 | |||
Gerhard Köppen † | Luftwaffe | 85 | |||
Walter Zellot † | Luftwaffe | 85 | |||
Heinz Ewald | Luftwaffe | 84 | |||
Peter Kalden | Luftwaffe | 84 | |||
Werner Quast | Luftwaffe | 84 | |||
Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein † | Luftwaffe | 83 | |||
Otto Weßling † | Luftwaffe | 83 | |||
Hans Grünberg | Luftwaffe | 82 | Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262 | ||
Emil Darjes | Luftwaffe | 82 | |||
Hans Götz † | Luftwaffe | 82 | |||
Helmut Missner | Luftwaffe | 82 | |||
Franz Beyer † | Luftwaffe | 81 | |||
Hugo Broch | Luftwaffe | 81 | |||
Willi Nemitz † | Luftwaffe | 81 | |||
Wilhelm Philipp | Luftwaffe | 81 | |||
Rudolf Wagner | Luftwaffe | 81 | |||
Tetsuzo Iwamoto | Imperial Japanese Navy | 80 | +14 in Second Sino-Japanese War | Claimed 80 and up to 143-202 victories | |
Herbert Bachnick † | Luftwaffe | 80 | |||
Otto Würfel | Luftwaffe | 79 | |||
Georg-Peter Eder | Luftwaffe | 78 | Jet ace with 12 victories in Me 262 | ||
Wolfgang Ewald | Luftwaffe | 78 | |||
Heinrich Krafft † | Luftwaffe | 78 | |||
Max-Hermann Lücke † | Luftwaffe | 78 | |||
Johann-Hermann Meier † | Luftwaffe | 78 | |||
Karl-Gottfried Nordmann | Luftwaffe | 78 | |||
Alexander Preinfalk † | Luftwaffe | 78 | |||
Hubertus von Bonin † | Luftwaffe | 77 | +4 in Spanish Civil War | ||
Josef Haiböck | Luftwaffe | 77 | |||
Walter Ohlrogge | Luftwaffe | 77 | |||
Hans-Joachim Kroschinski | Luftwaffe | 76 | |||
Maximilian Mayerl | Luftwaffe | 76 | |||
Alfred Teumer † | Luftwaffe | 76 | |||
Edwin Thiel † | Luftwaffe | 76 | |||
Hans Wind | Finnish Air Force | 75 | Quintuple Ace in a day | ||
Johannes Bunzek † | Luftwaffe | 75 | |||
Gustav Frielinghaus | Luftwaffe | 75 | |||
Helmuth Grollmus | Luftwaffe | 75 | |||
Johann Pichler | Luftwaffe | 75 | |||
Hans Röhrig † | Luftwaffe | 75 | |||
Waldemar Semelka † | Luftwaffe | 75 | |||
Joachim Wandel † | Luftwaffe | 75 | |||
Otto Gaiser † | Luftwaffe | 74 | |||
Friedrich Haas | Luftwaffe | 74 | |||
Karl-Heinz Meltzer † | Luftwaffe | 74 | |||
Wilhelm Herget | Luftwaffe | 73 | |||
Anton Lindner | Luftwaffe | 73 | |||
Gerhard Michalski | Luftwaffe | 73 | |||
Otto Schultz | Luftwaffe | 73 | |||
Shigeo Fukumoto | Imperial Japanese Navy | 72 | |||
Klaus Mietusch † | Luftwaffe | 72 | |||
Wilhelm Mink † | Luftwaffe | 72 | |||
Karl Heinz Schnell | Luftwaffe | 72 | |||
Hans Fuß † | Luftwaffe | 71 | |||
Adolf Glunz | Luftwaffe | 71 | |||
Alfred Heckmann | Luftwaffe | 71 | |||
Herbert Rollwage | Luftwaffe | 71 | |||
Günther Scheel † | Luftwaffe | 71 | |||
Shoichi Sugita | Imperial Japanese Navy | 70 | +40 shared | ||
Karl Hoffmann | Luftwaffe | 70 | |||
Hermann-Friedrich Joppien † | Luftwaffe | 70 | |||
Heinz Lange | Luftwaffe | 70 | |||
Rudi Linz † | Luftwaffe | 70 | |||
Emil Omert † | Luftwaffe | 70 | |||
Lutz-Wilhelm Burckhardt | Luftwaffe | 69 | |||
Armin Köhler | Luftwaffe | 69 | |||
Ernst Weismann | Luftwaffe | 69 | |||
Eugen-Ludwig Zweigart † | Luftwaffe | 69 | |||
Constantin Cantacuzino | Royal Romanian Air Force | 69 | +8 unconfirmed
Top Romanian ace | ||
Kurt Dombacher | Luftwaffe | 68 | |||
Walter Höckner | Luftwaffe | 68 | |||
Herbert Huppertz † | Luftwaffe | 68 | |||
Heinrich Jung | Luftwaffe | 68 | |||
Herbert Kaiser | Luftwaffe | 68 | |||
Richard Leppla | Luftwaffe | 68 | |||
Fritz Losigkeit | Luftwaffe | 68 | |||
Günther Freiherr von Maltzahn | Luftwaffe | 68 | |||
Hans Strelow † | Luftwaffe | 68 | |||
Ernst Süß † | Luftwaffe | 68 | |||
Otto Tange † | Luftwaffe | 68 | |||
Fritz Dinger † | Luftwaffe | 67 | |||
Herbert Findeisen | Luftwaffe | 67 | |||
Karl Fuchs | Luftwaffe | 67 | |||
Heinrich Füllgrabe † | Luftwaffe | 67 | |||
Karl Hammerl | Luftwaffe | 67 | |||
Reinhold Hoffmann † | Luftwaffe | 67 | |||
Erbo Graf von Kageneck † | Luftwaffe | 67 | |||
Franz Schieß † | Luftwaffe | 67 | |||
Franz Schwaiger † | Luftwaffe | 67 | |||
Hubert Strassl † | Luftwaffe | 67 | Triple-ace in a day | ||
Erwin Fleig | Luftwaffe | 66 | |||
Werner Streib | Luftwaffe | 66 | Night fighter ace | ||
Berthold Graßmuck † | Luftwaffe | 65 | |||
Karl Kempf † | Luftwaffe | 65 | |||
Manfred Meurer † | Luftwaffe | 65 | |||
Ivan Kozhedub | Soviet Air Force | 66 | +2 US planes that mistakenly attacked him | Top Allied ace in WWII | |
Bernd Gallowitsch | Luftwaffe | 64 | |||
Jürgen Harder † | Luftwaffe | 64 | |||
Rolf Hermichen | Luftwaffe | 64 | |||
Walter Lindner | Luftwaffe | 64 | |||
Viktor Petermann | Luftwaffe | 64 | |||
Erhard Peters | Luftwaffe | 64 | |||
Günther Radusch | Luftwaffe | 64 | |||
Heinz Rökker | Luftwaffe | 64 | |||
Rudolf Schoenert | Luftwaffe | 64 | |||
Franz Götz | Luftwaffe | 63 | |||
Heinrich Hoffmann † | Luftwaffe | 63 | |||
Gerhard Homuth † | Luftwaffe | 63 | |||
Wilhelm Schilling | Luftwaffe | 63 | |||
Hermann Staiger | Luftwaffe | 63 | |||
Kurt Welter | Luftwaffe | 63 | Jet ace with 20+ claimed in Me 262; 56 as night fighter; possibly all time jet ace | ||
Heino Cordes | Luftwaffe | 62 | |||
Wilhelm Hübner | Luftwaffe | 62 | |||
Helmut Neumann | Luftwaffe | 62 | |||
Gerhard Beutin | Luftwaffe | 60 | |||
Hans-Ekkehard Bob | Luftwaffe | 60 | |||
Horst Carganico † | Luftwaffe | 60 | |||
Franz Czech | Luftwaffe | 60 | |||
Alfred Franke † | Luftwaffe | 60 | |||
Franz Hrdlicka † | Luftwaffe | 60 | |||
Kurt Kelter | Luftwaffe | 60 | |||
August Mors † | Luftwaffe | 60 | |||
Karl Munz | Luftwaffe | 60 | |||
Alfred Rauch | Luftwaffe | 60 | |||
Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin | Soviet Air Force | 59 | +8 prior to Soviets officially in WWII | ||
Hans-Arnold Stahlschmidt † | Luftwaffe | 59 | |||
Walter Borchers † | Luftwaffe | 59 | |||
Franz Eckerle † | Luftwaffe | 59 | |||
Karl Steffen | Luftwaffe | 59 | |||
Paul Zorner | Luftwaffe | 59 | |||
Hermann Buchner | Luftwaffe | 58 | Jet ace with 12 victories in Me 262 | ||
Martin Becker | Luftwaffe | 58 | |||
Herbert Broennle † | Luftwaffe | 58 | |||
Siegfried Engfer | Luftwaffe | 58 | |||
Herbert Friebel | Luftwaffe | 58 | |||
Wilhelm Freuwörth | Luftwaffe | 58 | |||
Gerhard Raht | Luftwaffe | 58 | |||
Hannes Trautloft | Luftwaffe | 58 | |||
Hiromichi Shinohara † | Imperial Japanese Army | 58 | |||
Grigoriy Andreevich Rechkalov | Soviet Air Force | 58 | |||
Nikolay Dmitrievich Gulayev | Soviet Air Force | 57 | |||
Heinrich-Wilhelm Ahnert † | Luftwaffe | 57 | |||
Konrad Bauer | Luftwaffe | 57 | |||
Walter Brandt | Luftwaffe | 57 | |||
Hugo Dahmer | Luftwaffe | 57 | |||
Kurt Ebener | Luftwaffe | 57 | |||
Adolf Kalkum | Luftwaffe | 57 | |||
Herbert Puschmann † | Luftwaffe | 57 | |||
Johannes Seifert † | Luftwaffe | 57 | |||
Hermann Wolf | Luftwaffe | 57 | |||
Manfred Eberwein | Luftwaffe | 56 | |||
Gustav Francsi | Luftwaffe | 56 | |||
Horst Haase | Luftwaffe | 56 | |||
Heinz Hackler † | Luftwaffe | 56 | |||
Erich Hohagen | Luftwaffe | 56 | |||
Helmuth Holtz | Luftwaffe | 56 | |||
Eduard Isken | Luftwaffe | 56 | |||
Kurt Knappe † | Luftwaffe | 56 | |||
Josef Kraft | Luftwaffe | 56 | |||
Helmut Schönfelder | Luftwaffe | 56 | |||
Günther Seeger | Luftwaffe | 56 | |||
Heinz Strüning † | Luftwaffe | 56 | |||
Edmund Wagner † | Luftwaffe | 56 | |||
Helmut Wick † | Luftwaffe | 56 | |||
Eino Luukkanen | Finnish Air Force | 56 | |||
Karl-Heinz Bendert | Luftwaffe | 55 | |||
Wilhelm-Ferdinand Galland † | Luftwaffe | 55 | |||
Herbert Bareuther † | Luftwaffe | 55 | |||
Hans-Dieter Frank | Luftwaffe | 55 | |||
Gabriel Tautscher | Luftwaffe | 55 | |||
Takeo Okumura † | Imperial Japanese Navy | 54 | |||
Johann Badum † | Luftwaffe | 54 | |||
Hans Ehlers † | Luftwaffe | 54 | |||
August Geiger † | Luftwaffe | 54 | |||
Wilhelm Hauswirth | Luftwaffe | 54 | |||
Heinz Leber | Luftwaffe | 54 | |||
Siegfried Simsch † | Luftwaffe | 54 | |||
Heinz Vinke † | Luftwaffe | 54 | |||
Kirill A. Yevstigneyev | Soviet Air Force | 53 | |||
Albert Brunner † | Luftwaffe | 53 | |||
Heinz-Edgar Berres † | Luftwaffe | 53 | |||
Hans-Joachim Heyer † | Luftwaffe | 53 | |||
Willy Kientsch † | Luftwaffe | 53 | |||
Carl Sattig | Luftwaffe | 53 | |||
Julius Meimberg | Luftwaffe | 53 | |||
Franz Barten † | Luftwaffe | 52 | |||
Martin Drewes | Luftwaffe | 52 | |||
Alfred Gross | Luftwaffe | 52 | |||
Ludwig Häfner † | Luftwaffe | 52 | |||
Heinz Knoke | Luftwaffe | 52 | |||
Rudolf Pflanz † | Luftwaffe | 52 | |||
Friedrich Rupp † | Luftwaffe | 52 | |||
Heinrich Wefers | Luftwaffe | 52 | |||
Hermann Greiner | Luftwaffe | 51 | |||
Werner Hoffmann | Luftwaffe | 51 | Night fighter ace | ||
Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld † | Luftwaffe | 51 | |||
Fritz Lüddecke † | Luftwaffe | 51 | |||
Otto Schulz † | Luftwaffe | 51 | |||
Dmitry Glinka | Soviet Air Force | 50 | |||
Hans-Joachim Jabs | Luftwaffe | 50 | |||
Emil Knittel | Luftwaffe | 50 | |||
Frank Liesendahl | Luftwaffe | 50 | |||
Herbert Lütje | Luftwaffe | 50 | |||
Karl Willius † | Luftwaffe | 50 | |||
Heinz Arnold † | Luftwaffe | 49 | Jet ace with 7 victories in Me 262 | ||
Rudolf Ehrenberger † | Luftwaffe | 49 | |||
Reinhard Kollak | Luftwaffe | 49 | |||
Klaus Quaet-Faslem † | Luftwaffe | 49 | |||
Richard Quante | Luftwaffe | 49 | |||
Friedrich Beckh † | Luftwaffe | 48 | |||
Paul Gildner † | Luftwaffe | 48 | |||
Johannes Hager | Luftwaffe | 47 | |||
Werner Stumpf † | Luftwaffe | 48 | |||
Franz Schwaiger † | Luftwaffe | 48 | |||
Heinz-Gerhard Vogt † | Luftwaffe | 48 | |||
Ernst-Georg Drünkler | Luftwaffe | 47 | |||
Heinz Golinski † | Luftwaffe | 47 | |||
Eckhard Hübner | Luftwaffe | 47 | |||
Herbert Kutscha † | Luftwaffe | 47 | |||
Erich Schmidt | Luftwaffe | 47 | |||
Georg Seidel | Luftwaffe | 47 | |||
Alexandru Şerbănescu † | Royal Romanian Air Force | 47 | |||
Arseniy Vasilievich Vorozheikin | Soviet Air Force | 46 | +6 in Battles of Khalkhin Gol | ||
Aleksandr Ivanovich Koldunov | Soviet Air Force | 46 | |||
Nikolay Mikhailovich Skomorohov | Soviet Air Force | 46 | |||
Hans-Heinz Augenstein | Luftwaffe | 46 | |||
Ludwig Becker † | Luftwaffe | 46 | |||
Wolfgang Böwing-Treuding † | Luftwaffe | 46 | |||
Günter Fink † | Luftwaffe | 46 | |||
Erwin Laskowski | Luftwaffe | 46 | |||
Karl Rammelt | Luftwaffe | 46 | |||
Karl Schnörrer | Luftwaffe | 46 | Jet ace with 11 victories in Me 262 | ||
Franz Schulte | Luftwaffe | 46 | |||
Paul Semrau † | Luftwaffe | 46 | |||
Alfred Surau | Luftwaffe | 46 | |||
Kurt Tangermann | Luftwaffe | 46 | |||
Ernst Düllberg | Luftwaffe | 45 | |||
Rudolf Frank † | Luftwaffe | 45 | |||
Gerhard Schöpfel | Luftwaffe | 45 | |||
Franz Stigler | Luftwaffe | 45 | |||
Otto Vinzent | Luftwaffe | 45 | |||
Ion Milu | Royal Romanian Air Force | 45 | |||
Urho Lehtovaara | Finnish Air Force | 44½ | |||
Mato Dukovac | Croatian Air Force | 44 | Top Croatian ace | ||
Oiva Tuominen | Finnish Air Force | 44 | |||
Hans Frese | Luftwaffe | 44 | |||
Karl-Wilhelm Hofmann † | Luftwaffe | 44 | |||
Reinhold Knacke † | Luftwaffe | 44 | Night fighter ace | ||
Wilhelm Steinmann | Luftwaffe | 44 | |||
Walther Wever † | Luftwaffe | 44 | |||
Vladimir Bobrov | Soviet Air Force | 43 | |||
Karl Borris | Luftwaffe | 43 | |||
Ludwig Franzisket | Luftwaffe | 43 | |||
Hubert Mütherich | Luftwaffe | 43 | |||
Josef Pöhs † | Luftwaffe | 43 | |||
Dietrich Schmidt | Luftwaffe | 43 | |||
Daniel Vizanty | Royal Romanian Air Force | 43 | |||
Olli Puhakka | Finnish Air Force | 42 | |||
Norbert Hannig | Luftwaffe | 42 | |||
Jürgen Brocke † | Luftwaffe | 42 | |||
Tudor Greceanu | Royal Romanian Air Force | 42 | |||
Rudolf Schmidt | Luftwaffe | 42 | |||
Herbert Schramm † | Luftwaffe | 42 | |||
Robert Olejnik | Luftwaffe | 41 | |||
Werner Baake | Luftwaffe | 41 | |||
Leopold Fellerer | Luftwaffe | 41 | |||
Wilhelm Balthasar † | Luftwaffe | 40 | +7 in Spanish Civil War | (+13 ground kills) | |
Richard I. Bong † | U.S. Army Air Forces | 40 | Top U.S. ace | ||
Rudolf Busch | Luftwaffe | 40 | |||
Peter Bremer | Luftwaffe | 40 | |||
Wolf-Dietrich Huy | Luftwaffe | 40 | |||
Hermann Neuhoff | Luftwaffe | 40 | |||
Günter Steinhausen † | Luftwaffe | 40 | |||
Marmaduke 'Pat' Pattle † | Royal Air Force | 40 | Top British Commonwealth and South African ace, possibly 50+ victories | ||
Satoru Anabuki | Imperial Japanese Army | 39 | 51 claimed | ||
Iyozo Fujita | Imperial Japanese Navy | 39 | |||
Hans Dortenmann | Luftwaffe | 39 | |||
Eckart-Wilhelm von Bonin | Luftwaffe | 39 | |||
Cvitan Galić † | Croatian Air Force | 38 | |||
Ernst Borngen | Luftwaffe | 38 | |||
Detlev Rohwer † | Luftwaffe | 38 | |||
Eduard Tratt † | Luftwaffe | 38 | |||
James Edgar "Johnnie" Johnson | Royal Air Force | 38 | |||
Thomas B. McGuire † | U.S. Army Air Forces | 38 | |||
Ivan Babak | Soviet Air Force | 37 | |||
Klaus Neumann | Luftwaffe | 37 | Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262 | ||
Heinz Bretnutz | Luftwaffe | 37 | |||
Waldemar Radener | Luftwaffe | 37 | |||
Maximilian Volke † | Luftwaffe | 37 | |||
Sergey Luganski | Soviet Air Force | 37 | |||
Hiroyoshi Nishizawa † | Imperial Japanese Navy | 36 | Claimed 86 and up to 100-150 victories | ||
Olavi Puro | Finnish Air Force | 36 | |||
Nils Katajainen | Finnish Air Force | 35½ | |||
Gunther Bertram | Luftwaffe | 35 | |||
Petr Hnido | Soviet Air Force | 34 | |||
Paul Brandt | Luftwaffe | 34 | |||
David McCampbell | U.S. Navy | 34 | Top U.S. Navy ace, Ace in a day on two different occasions | ||
Toshio Ota † | Imperial Japanese Navy | 34 | |||
Ivan Stepanenko | Soviet Air Force | 33 | |||
Pierre Clostermann | Free French Air Force; Royal Air Force | 33 | Top French ace | ||
Erich Brunotte | Luftwaffe | 33 | |||
Heinz Beyer | Luftwaffe | 33 | |||
Lauri Nissinen † | Finnish Air Force | 32½ | |||
Ján Režňák | Slovak Air Force | 32 | Top Slovak ace, possibly 35 victories | ||
Kyösti Karhila | Finnish Air Force | 32 | |||
Hugo Frey † | Luftwaffe | 32 | |||
Kazuo Sugino | Imperial Japanese Navy | 32 | |||
Adolph 'Sailor' Malan | Royal Air Force | 32 | |||
George F. "Buzz" Beurling | Royal Air Force | 31.5 | Top Canadian ace | ||
Hans-Karl Mayer † | Luftwaffe | 31 | +8 in Spanish Civil War | ||
Alexandr Kumanichkin | Soviet Air Force | 31 | |||
Jorma Karhunen | Finnish Air Force | 31 | |||
Dezső Szentgyörgyi | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 30½ | Top Hungarian ace | ||
Amet-khan Sultan | Soviet Air Force | 30 | +19 shared | ||
Robert Roland Stanford Tuck | Royal Air Force | 30 | |||
William Vale | Royal Air Force | 30 | +6 shared | ||
Franz Blazytko | Luftwaffe | 30 | |||
Max Bucholz | Luftwaffe | 30 | Ace in a day | ||
Erich Bartz | Luftwaffe | 30 | |||
Friedrich-Karl "Nasen" Müller | Luftwaffe | 30 | |||
Erich Woitke † | Luftwaffe | 30 | +4 in Spanish Civil War | ||
Kaneyoshi Mutoh † | Imperial Japanese Navy | 30 | |||
Ryotaro Jobou | Imperial Japanese Army | 30 | |||
Emil Vesa | Finnish Air Force | 29½ | |||
Walter Adolph † | Luftwaffe | 29 | +1 in Spanish Civil War | ||
Bob Braham | Royal Air Force | 29 | |||
Clive Caldwell | Royal Australian Air Force | 28½ | Top Australian ace of WWII. Top P-40 ace. Ace in a day. | ||
Tapio Järvi | Finnish Air Force | 28½ | |||
Izidor Kovárik | Slovak Air Force | 28 | possibly 29 | ||
Ernst Andres † | Luftwaffe | 28 | |||
Anton Benning | Luftwaffe | 28 | |||
Alfred Burk | Luftwaffe | 28 | |||
Hans-Heinrich Koenig † | Luftwaffe | 28 | |||
Yasuhiko Kuroe | Imperial Japanese Army | 28 | +2 in Actions in Mongolia | 51 claimed | |
"Paddy" Finucane † | Royal Air Force | 28 | Top Irish ace | ||
"Ginger" Lacey | Royal Air Force | 28 | |||
Francis "Gabby" Gabreski | U.S. Army Air Forces | 28 | +6½ in Korean War | (+2½ ground kills) | |
Gregory "Pappy" Boyington | American Volunteer Group; U.S. Marine Corps | 28 | Ace status on 2 different air forces | ||
Saburō Sakai | Imperial Japanese Navy | 28 | Includes unknown number of shared. Claims 64 total victories. | ||
Colin Falkland Gray | Royal Air Force | 27½ | Top New Zealand ace | ||
Neville Duke | Royal Air Force | 27 | |||
Karl Beckmann | Luftwaffe | 27 | |||
Emil Clade | Luftwaffe | 27 | |||
Wilhelm Mayer † | Luftwaffe | 27 | |||
Josef Fözö | Luftwaffe | 27 | +3 in Spanish Civil War | ||
Lothar Linke † | Luftwaffe | 27 | |||
Constantin Rozariu | Royal Romanian Air Force | 27 | |||
Robert S. Johnson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 27 | |||
Charles H. MacDonald | U.S. Army Air Forces | 27 | |||
Junichi Sasai † | Imperial Japanese Navy | 27 | |||
Sadaaki Akamatsu | Imperial Japanese Navy | 27 | |||
George E. Preddy, Jr. † | U.S. Army Air Forces | 26.83 | Ace in a day (+5 ground kills) | ||
Eric Lock † | Royal Air Force | 26½ | |||
Klaus Alakoski | Finnish Air Force | 26 | |||
Willi Reschke | Luftwaffe | 26 | |||
Nobuo Ogiya | Imperial Japanese Navy | 26 | |||
Ján Gerthoffer | Slovak Air Force | 26 | |||
Joseph J. Foss | U.S. Marine Corps | 26 | Top ace under USMC-only service | ||
Lev Shestakov † | Soviet Air Force | 65 | +39 in Spanish Civil War | ||
György Debrődy | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 26 | |||
Lajos Tóth | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 26 | |||
Russell Bannock | Royal Canadian Air Force | 25½ | includes 19 V-1 flying bombs | ||
Egon Albrecht-Lemke † | Luftwaffe | 25 | |||
Ludwig Bellof | Luftwaffe | 25 | |||
Lydia Litvyak | Airforce | 12 | range 6-12 highest ranking female ace | ||
Wolfgang Lippert † | Luftwaffe | 25 | +5 in Spanish Civil War | ||
Robert M. Hanson † | U.S. Marine Corps | 25 | |||
Boris Safonov † | Soviet Naval Aviation | 25 | +14 shared | ||
Naoshi Kanno | Imperial Japanese Navy | 25 | |||
László Molnár † | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 25 | |||
Frank Reginald Carey | Royal Air Force | 25 | |||
John C. Meyer | U.S. Army Air Forces | 24 | +2 in Korean War | (+13 ground kills) | |
Cecil E. Harris | U.S. Navy | 24 | |||
Peter Spoden | Luftwaffe | 24 | Night fighter ace | ||
Johannes Le Roux | Royal Air Force | 23½ | Generally credited with attacking & wounding Erwin Rommel in his staff car in Normandy on 17 July 1944 | ||
Marcel Albert | Free French Air Force | 23 | Probably 2 more | ||
Douglas Bader | Royal Air Force | 23 | |||
Eugene A. Valencia | U.S. Navy | 23 | |||
Kalevi Tervo | Finnish Air Force | 23 | |||
Jorma Saarinen | Finnish Air Force | 23 | |||
Lance C. Wade † | Royal Air Force | 23 | Top US ace in RAF | ||
Horst Patuschka † | Luftwaffe | 22 | |||
Eero Kinnunen | Finnish Air Force | 22½ | |||
David C. Schilling | U.S. Army Air Forces | 22½ | (+10½ ground kills) | ||
Rolf Pingel | Luftwaffe | 22 | +6 Spanish Civil War | ||
Teresio Vittorio Martinoli † | Regia Aeronautica | 22 | Top Italian ace of WWII; +14 shared | ||
Leonardo Ferrulli † | Regia Aeronautica | 22 | |||
Fritz Müller | Luftwaffe | 22 | Jet ace with 6 victories in Me 262 | ||
Artur Beese | Luftwaffe | 22 | |||
Edward F. Charles | Royal Canadian Air Force | 22 | |||
Alan Christopher Deere | Royal Air Force | 22 | |||
Gerald R. Johnson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 22 | |||
Neel E. Kearby † | U.S. Army Air Forces | 22 | |||
Jay T. Robbins | U.S. Army Air Forces | 22 | |||
Ion Mucenica | Royal Romanian Air Force | 22 | |||
Dominic S. Gentile | Royal Air Force; U.S. Army Air Forces | 21.83 | victories with 2 air forces (+7 ground kills) | ||
Donald Kingaby | Royal Air Force | 21 | +2 shared | ||
Antti Tani | Finnish Air Force | 21½ | |||
William V. Crawford-Crompton | Royal Air Force | 21½ | |||
Raymond Brown Hesselyn | Royal New Zealand Air Force | 21½ | |||
Fred J. Christensen | U.S. Army Air Forces | 21½ | |||
Ray S. Wetmore | U.S. Army Air Forces | 21¼ | (+2 ground kills) | ||
Branse Burbridge | Royal Air Force | 21 | Top RAF night fighter ace | ||
Archie McKellar † | Royal Air Force | 21 | Ace in a day | ||
Jean Demozay | Royal Air Force | 21 | |||
Franco Lucchini † | Regia Aeronautica | 21 | +6 in Spanish Civil War | +52 shared | |
Theodor Rossiwall | Luftwaffe | 21 | |||
Franz von Werra † | Luftwaffe | 21 | |||
John J. Voll | U.S. Army Air Forces | 21 | |||
Kenneth A. Walsh | U.S. Marine Corps | 21 | |||
Paavo Myllylä | Finnish Air Force | 21 | |||
Walker 'Bud' Melville Mahurin | U.S. Army Air Forces | 20.75 | +3½ in Korean War | ||
Donald N. Aldrich | U.S. Marine Corps | 20 | |||
Rudolph Anter | Luftwaffe | 20 | |||
Helmut Baudach | Luftwaffe | 20 | Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262 | ||
Paul Becker | Luftwaffe | 20 | |||
Hans Berschwinger | Luftwaffe | 20 | |||
Helmut-Felix Bolz | Luftwaffe | 20 | +3 in Spanish Civil War | ||
Cristea Chirvasuta | Royal Romanian Air Force | 20 | |||
Michael Crossley | Royal Air Force | 20 | |||
Thomas J. Lynch † | U.S. Army Air Forces | 20 | |||
Evan Mackie | Royal New Zealand Air Force | 20 | +3 shared | ||
Henry Wallace McLeod † | Royal Canadian Air Force | 20 | |||
Gerhard Sommer † | Luftwaffe | 20 | |||
Robert B. Westbrook † | U.S. Army Air Forces | 20 | |||
Vernon Crompton Woodward | Royal Air Force | 20 | |||
Geoffrey Allard | Royal Air Force | 19 | +5 shared | ||
Viktor Pyötsiä | Finnish Air Force | 19½ | |||
Väinö Suhonen | Finnish Air Force | 19½ | |||
Franco Bordoni | Regia Aeronautica | 19 | 5 victories with biplane; +18 shared | ||
Mark Henry Brown † | Royal Air Force | 19 | First Canadian ace of WWII | ||
Roy Dutton | Royal Air Force | 19 | |||
W. G. G. Duncan Smith | Royal Air Force | 19 | DSO*, DFC** | ||
Luigi Gorrini | Regia Aeronautica | 19 | 1 victory with biplane, 24 victories claimed | ||
John "Cat's Eyes" Cunningham | Royal Air Force | 19 | Night fighter ace | ||
Glenn E. Duncan | U.S. Army Air Forces | 19 | (+7.8 ground kills) | ||
Patrick D. Fleming | U.S. Navy | 19 | |||
Cornelius N. Nooy | U.S. Navy | 19 | |||
John Lucian Smith | U.S. Marine Corps | 19 | |||
Alexander Vraciu | U.S. Navy | 19 | |||
Erik Teromaa | Finnish Air Force | 19 | |||
Constantin Lungulescu | Royal Romanian Air Force | 19 | |||
Stanisław Skalski | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 18.91 | Top Polish ace | ||
Arthur J. Benko | U.S. Army Air Forces | 18½ | highest scoring American aerial gunner of the WW2 | ||
Marion E. Carl | U.S. Marine Corps | 18½ | |||
Lauri Pekuri | Finnish Air Force | 18½ | |||
Leonard K. Carson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 18½ | (+3½ ground kills) | ||
Glenn Eagleston | U.S. Army Air Forces | 18½ | +2 in Korean War | (+5 ground kills) | |
Wilbur J. Thomas | U.S. Marine Corps | 18½ | |||
Yukiyoshi Wakamatsu | Imperial Japanese Army | 18+ | |||
Tateo Kato | Imperial Japanese Army | 18 | up to 30 claimed | ||
Karel Kuttelwascher | Royal Air Force | 18 | possibly 20 | ||
Harry von Bülow-Bothkamp | Luftwaffe | 18 | +6 in World War I | ||
Witold Urbanowicz | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 18 | |||
Walter C. Beckham | U.S. Army Air Forces | 18 | |||
Herschel H. Green | U.S. Army Air Forces | 18 | |||
John C. "Pappy" Herbst | U.S. Army Air Forces | 18 | |||
Albert Gerald Lewis | Royal Air Force | 18 | Ace in a day | ||
Miklós Kenyeres | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 18 | |||
Charles H. Older | American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces | 18 | Ace status on 2 different air forces | ||
Takeo Tanimizu | Imperial Japanese Navy | 18 | |||
Pierre Le Gloan † | French Air Force | 18 | Ace in a day | ||
Hubert Zemke | U.S. Army Air Forces | 17.75 | |||
John B. England | U.S. Army Air Forces | 17½ | |||
Duane W. Beeson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 17⅓ | (+4.8 ground kills) | ||
Jouko Huotari | Finnish Air Force | 17½ | |||
John F. Thornell | U.S. Army Air Forces | 17¼ | (+2 ground kills) | ||
Henry W. Brown | U.S. Army Air Forces | 17.2 | (+14½ ground kills) | ||
Rudolf Božík | Slovak Air Force | 17 | |||
Ugo Drago | Regia Aeronautica, Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana | 17 | |||
Cobber Kain | Royal Air Force | 17 | First RAF fighter ace of WWII | ||
William "Willie" McKnight | Royal Air Force | 17 | |||
Josef Frantisek | Royal Air Force | 17 | |||
Jorma Sarvanto | Finnish Air Force | 17 | Ace in a day (four minutes) | ||
Yrjö Turkka | Finnish Air Force | 17 | |||
Gerald W. Johnson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 17 | |||
James S. Varnell Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 17 | |||
Bolesław Gładych | Polish Air Force/French Air Force/Royal Air Force/U.S. Army Air Forces | 17 | victories with 3 air forces | ||
Keith Truscott | Royal Australian Air Force | 17 | |||
Petrus Hugo | Royal Air Force | 17, 3 shr., 3 prob., 7 dmg | |||
Stanley Orr | Fleet Air Arm | 17 | |||
Tony Lovell | Royal Air Force | 16 | +6 shared (+1 ground kill) | ||
Eugeniusz Horbaczewski | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 16½ | |||
William T. Klersey † | Royal Canadian Air Force | 16½ | (+2 ground kills) | ||
Aulis Lumme | Finnish Air Force | 16½ | |||
James MacLachlan | Royal Air Force | 16½ | 7½ after the amputation of his left arm | ||
Eero Riihikallio | Finnish Air Force | 16½ | |||
Nigel Cullen | Royal Air Force | 16½ | |||
John T. Godfrey | U.S. Army Air Forces | 16⅓ | (+18 ground kills) | ||
Adrian Goldsmith | Royal Australian Air Force | 16¼ | |||
Clarence E. Anderson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 16¼ | Highest scoring living American air ace. (+1 ground kill) | ||
Paul Galland | Luftwaffe | 16 | |||
Les Clisby | Royal Air Force | 16 | |||
Franjo Dzal | Croatian Air Force | 16 | |||
Douglas Baker † | U.S. Navy | 16 | |||
James Francis Edwards | Royal Canadian Air Force | 16 | |||
Eero Halonen | Finnish Air Force | 16 | |||
Bill Harris | U.S. Army Air Forces | 16 | |||
Buck McNair | Royal Canadian Air Force | 16 | |||
John Plagis | Royal Air Force | 16 | Top Rhodesian ace | ||
Ioan Dicezare | Royal Romanian Air Force | 16 | |||
Ira C. Kepford | U.S. Navy | 16 | |||
Charles R. Stimpson | U.S. Navy | 16 | |||
Stan Turner | Royal Canadian Air Force | 16 | |||
William T. Whisner, Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 16 | +5½ in Korean War | (+3½ ground kills) | |
George Welch | U.S. Army Air Forces | 16 | |||
Edmond Marin la Meslée † | French Air Force | 16 | |||
Mario Visintini | Regia Aeronautica | 16 | +1 in Spanish Civil War | Top Biplane ace of WWII (+32 ground kills) | |
Vasile Gavriliu | Royal Romanian Air Force | 16 | |||
Ernest Mason | Royal Air Force | 15+ | +2 shared | ||
John Lloyd Waddy | Royal Australian Air Force | 15½ | |||
Donald M. Beerbower | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15½ | |||
Brian Carbury | Royal Air Force | 15½ | Ace in a day | ||
Richard A. Peterson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15½ | (+3½ ground kills) | ||
James E. Swett | U.S. Marine Corps | 15½ | Ace in a day | ||
David Lee "Tex" Hill | American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces | 15¼ | Ace status on 2 different air forces | ||
Martti Alho | Finnish Air Force | 15 | |||
Ljudevit Bencetic | Croatian Air Force | 15 | |||
Jack T. Bradley | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15 | |||
Samuel J. Brown | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15 | |||
Edward "Porky" Cragg | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15 | |||
František Cyprich | Slovak Air Force | 15 | possibly 18 | ||
Kenneth H. Dahlberg | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15 | |||
Robert Francis Thomas "Bob" Doe | Royal Air Force | 15 | Includes two shared. One more probable. | ||
William D. Dunham | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15 | |||
Robert W. Foy | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15 | |||
John "Jack" Frost † | South African Air Force | 15 | |||
Raymond Harries | Royal Air Force | 15 | +3 shared | ||
Ralph K. Hofer | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15 | (+14 ground kills) | ||
Cyril F. Homer | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15 | |||
Paterson Hughes | Royal Air Force | 15 | |||
Don C. Laubman | Royal Canadian Air Force | 15 | |||
Ian Roy MacLennan | Royal Canadian Air Force | 15 | |||
Harold L. Spears † | U.S. Marine Corps | 15 | |||
Stoyan Stoyanov | Royal Bulgarian Air Force | 15 | |||
Alois Vašátko | Royal Air Force | 15 | |||
Donald H. Bochkay | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14.84 | |||
Donald J. Blakeslee | Royal Air Force; U.S. Army Air Forces | 14½ | victories with 2 air forces | ||
John D. Landers | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14½ | (+20 ground kills) | ||
Aaro Nuorala | Finnish Air Force | 14½ | |||
Joseph H. Powers, Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14½ | |||
Johnnie Checketts | Royal New Zealand Air Force | 14½ | |||
Henry Brown | U.S. Army Air Force | 14½ | (+14.5 ground kills) | ||
Charles Scherf | Royal Australian Air Force | 14½ | (+9 ground kills) | ||
Mario Bellagambi | Regia Aeronautica | 14 | |||
Svein Heglund | Royal Air Force | 14 | |||
Sophus Baagoe | Luftwaffe | 14 | |||
Günther Wegmann | Luftwaffe | 14 | Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262 | ||
František Brezina | Slovak Air Force | 14 | |||
Bruce W. Carr | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | (+10 ground kills) | ||
Robert C. Curtis | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | |||
Robert M. DeHaven | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | |||
Archie Donahue | U.S. Marine Corps | 14 | |||
Wallace N. Emmer | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | |||
James A. Goodson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | (+13 ground kills) | ||
Arthur R. Hawkins | U.S. Navy | 14 | |||
Arthur F. Jeffrey | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | |||
Edward O. McComas | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | |||
Elbert S. McCuskey | U.S. Navy | 14 | |||
Daniel T. Roberts, Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | |||
John L. Wirth | U.S. Navy | 14 | |||
István Fábián (pilot) | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 14 | |||
István Kálmán | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 14 | |||
William Henry Franklin | Royal Air Force | 13½ | |||
George C. Duncan | U.S. Navy | 13½ | |||
Pekka Kokko | Finnish Air Force | 13½ | |||
Heimo Lampi | Finnish Air Force | 13½ | |||
Roger W. Mehle | U.S. Navy | 13½ | |||
Donald J. Strait | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13½ | |||
George Carpenter | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13.4 | (+4 ground kills) | ||
Donald S. Bryan | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13.3 | Ace in a day | ||
Helmut Lennartz | Luftwaffe | 13 | Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262 | ||
Darrell S. Cramer | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | |||
John Wong Pan-Yang | Chinese Nationalist Air Force | 13 | |||
James L. Brooks | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | |||
Jan Zumbach | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 13 | |||
Safet Boskic | Croatian Air Force | 13 | |||
Mervyn Shipard | Royal Australian Air Force | 13 | |||
Daniel A. Carmichael, Jr. | U.S. Navy | 13 | |||
James N. Cupp | U.S. Marine Corps | 13 | |||
Clyde B. East | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | |||
Robert E. Galer | U.S. Marine Corps | 13 | |||
John F. Hampshire | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | |||
Bruce K. Holloway | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | |||
William P. Marontate | U.S. Marine Corps | 13 | |||
Willard. W. Millikan | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | (+2 ground kills) | ||
Glennon T. Moran | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | (+3 ground kills) | ||
Robert Neale | American Volunteer Group | 13 | (+2½ ground kills) | ||
László Pottyondi | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 13 | |||
László Máthé | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 13 | |||
Robin Olds | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | +4 in Vietnam War | (+11 ground kills) | |
James O'Meara | Royal Air Force | 13 | |||
Yrjö Pallasvuo | Finnish Air Force | 13 | |||
Harry A. Parker | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | |||
Roy W. Rushing | U.S. Navy | 13 | |||
Edward O. Shaw † | U.S. Marine Corps | 13 | |||
AJ "Jackie" Sewell | Fleet Air Arm | 13 | |||
Robert W. Stephens | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | |||
John R. Strane | U.S. Navy | 13 | |||
Robert Lee Scott, Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | |||
Wendell V. Twelves | U.S. Navy | 13 | |||
Tony Bartley | Royal Air Force | 13 | |||
Ian Richard Gleed | Royal Air Force | 13 | |||
Felix D. Williamson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | |||
Tiberiu Vinca | Royal Romanian Air Force | 13 | |||
Ioan Maga | Royal Romanian Air Force | 13 | |||
Henryk Pietrzak | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 12½ | |||
Lasse Aaltonen | Finnish Air Force | 12½ | |||
Ted Thorn | Royal Air Force | 12½ | |||
Hugo Armstrong | Royal Australian Air Force | 12½ | |||
Andrew "Nicky" Barr | Royal Australian Air Force | 12½ | |||
Tony Gaze | Royal Air Force | 12½ | |||
Lowell K. Brueland | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12½ | +2 in Korean War | ||
Kenneth D. Frazier | U.S. Marine Corps | 12½ | |||
David Charles "Foob" Fairbanks | Royal Canadian Air Force | 12½ | |||
Irving Farmer Kennedy | Royal Canadian Air Force | 12½ | |||
Eino Koskinen | Finnish Air Force | 12½ | |||
Onni Paronen | Finnish Air Force | 12½ | |||
Urho Sarjamo † | Finnish Air Force | 12½ | |||
Per-Erik Sovelius | Finnish Air Force | 12½ | |||
James C. Stewart | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12½ | (+1 ground kill) | ||
James H. Howard | American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces | 12⅓ | victories with 2 air forces (6⅓ with AVG and 6 with USAF) | ||
Quince L. Brown | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12⅓ | (+2 ground kills) | ||
Luigi Baron | Regia Aeronautica | 12 | |||
Mato Culinovic | Croatian Air Force | 12 | |||
John A. Kent | Royal Air Force | 12 | (+1 ground kill) | ||
Eduard Martinko | Croatian Air Force | 12 | |||
Veca Mikovic | Croatian Air Force | 12 | |||
Zlatko Stipcic | Croatian Air Force | 12 | |||
Marian Pisarek | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 12 | |||
John Dundas | Royal Air Force | 12 | |||
John Freeborn | Royal Air Force | 12 | |||
Jozef Štauder | Slovak Air Force | 12 | possibly 13 | ||
Pavol Zeleňák | Slovak Air Force | 12 | |||
Bruce Bretherton | Royal Australian Air Force | 12 | |||
Charles Crombie | Royal Australian Air Force | 12 | |||
Peter Turnbull | Royal Australian Air Force | 12 | |||
John Yarra | Royal Australian Air Force | 12 | |||
Anton Matúšek | Slovak Air Force | 12 | |||
Leo Ahokas | Finnish Air Force | 12 | |||
Michael Brezas | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | |||
Levi R. Chase | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | |||
Clement M. Craig | U.S. Navy | 12 | |||
Nicholas Gresham Cooke † | Royal Air Force | 12 | Ace in a day | ||
David B. Eastham | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | |||
Loren D. Everton | U.S. Marine Corps | 12 | |||
Luigi Giannella | Regia Aeronautica | 12 | |||
George W. Gleason | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | (+2½ ground kills) | ||
Leroy E. Harris | U.S. Navy | 12 | |||
Coatsworth B. Head, Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | |||
Roger R. Hedrick | U.S. Navy | 12 | |||
Howard D. Hively | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | (+2½ ground kills) | ||
Georg Kraft † | Luftwaffe | 12 | Night fighter ace | ||
Kenneth G. Ladd | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | |||
Albert Lippett † | Royal Air Force | 12 | Ace in a day, turret gunner on a two-man fighter plane | ||
William J. Masoner, Jr. | U.S. Navy | 12 | |||
Pierce McKennon | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | (+9.7 ground kills) | ||
Robert W. Moore | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | |||
József Málik † | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 12 | |||
Ferenc Málnássy † | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 12 | |||
František Peřina | Royal Air Force | 12 | |||
Michael J. Quirk | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | (+5 ground kills) | ||
Attilio Sanson | Regia Aeronautica | 12 | |||
LeRoy A. Schreiber | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | (+2 ground kills) | ||
Harold E. Segal | U.S. Marine Corps | 12 | |||
James A. Shirley | U.S. Navy | 12 | |||
Norman C. Skogstad | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | |||
William J. Sloan | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | |||
Giorgio Solaroli di Briona | Regia Aeronautica | 12 | |||
Eugene A. Trowbridge | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | |||
Richard E. Turner | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | possibly just 11 (+2 V-1 flying bombs) | ||
James A. Watkins | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | |||
Richard L. West | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | |||
Nicholas Megura | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11.84 | (+3.8 ground kills) | ||
George R. Carr | U.S. Navy | 11½ | |||
James A. Clark, Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11½ | (+4½ ground kills) | ||
Paul A. Conger | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11½ | |||
Olin E. Gilbert | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11½ | |||
William T. Halton | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11½ | (+2 ground kills) | ||
John A. Kirla, Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11½ | (+½ ground kill) | ||
William N. Snider | U.S. Marine Corps | 11½ | |||
Albert O. Vorse Jr. | U.S. Navy | 11½ | |||
Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11½ | |||
Liu Chi-Sheng / Liu Zhesheng | Chinese Nationalist Air Force | 11.3 | Top Chinese ace | ||
Howard Mayers | Royal Air Force | 11.3 | |||
Louis H. Norley | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11.3 | (+5 ground kills) | ||
Philip C. DeLong | U.S. Marine Corps | 11.2 | +2 in Korean War | ||
Richard John Cork | Fleet Air Arm | 11 | Ace in a day | ||
Ian Bedford Nesbitt Russell | Royal Air Force | 11 | |||
Albin Starc | Croatian Air Force | 11 | |||
Josip Helebrant | Croatian Air Force | 11 | |||
Stjepan Martinasevic | Croatian Air Force | 11 | |||
Harold W. Bauer † | U.S. Marine Corps | 11 | |||
John T. Blackburn | U.S. Navy | 11 | |||
William A. Dean, Jr. | U.S. Navy | 11 | |||
László Dániel | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 11 | |||
Geoff Fisken | Royal New Zealand Air Force | 11 | |||
Carl M. Frantz | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | |||
James B. French (pilot) | U.S. Navy | 11 | |||
Robert J. Goebel | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | |||
Ronald Hamlyn | Royal Air Force | 11 | Ace in a day | ||
Phillip L. Kirkwood | U.S. Navy | 11 | |||
John B. Lawler | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | |||
Hemmo Leino | Finnish Air Force | 11 | |||
Francis J. Lent | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | |||
Leland P. Molland | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | |||
William L. Leverette | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | |||
John S. Loisel | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | |||
Wayne L. Lowry | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | |||
Carlo Magnaghi | Regia Aeronautica | 11 | |||
Charles M. Mallory | U.S. Navy | 11 | |||
Alexei Petrovich Maresiev | Soviet Air Force | 11 | 3 victories after losing his legs | ||
Charles M. McCorkle | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | |||
Norman L. McDonald | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | |||
Hamilton McWhorter III | U.S. Navy | 12 | |||
John W. Mitchell | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | +4 in Korean War | ||
Urho Nieminen | Finnish Air Force | 11 | |||
Harvey P. Picken | U.S. Navy | 11 | |||
James V. Reber, Jr. | U.S. Navy | 11 | |||
Elmer W. Richardson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | possibly just 8 | ||
Robert H. Riddle | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | |||
James F. Rigg | U.S. Navy | 11 | |||
Donald E. Runyon | U.S. Navy | 11 | |||
Donald H. Sapp | U.S. Marine Corps | 11 | |||
Murray Shubin | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | |||
Otto Smik | Royal Air Force | 11 | (+3 V-1 flying bombs) | ||
Cornelius Smith, Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | |||
Giorgio Solaroli di Briona | Regia Aeronautica | 11 | |||
Kenneth C. Sparks | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | |||
Richard E. Stanbrook | U.S. Navy | 11 | |||
Mario Veronesi | Regia Aeronautica | 11 | |||
Virgil K. Meroney | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
Ilkka Törrönen | Finnish Air Force | 11 | |||
Mario Veronesi | Regia Aeronautica | 11 | |||
Ioan Malacescu | Royal Romanian Air Force | 11 | |||
Teodor Zabava | Royal Romanian Air Force | 11 | |||
George T. Burgard | American Volunteer Group | 10.75 | |||
Frank Q. O'Conner | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10.75 | |||
Charles F. Anderson, Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10½ | (+5½ ground kills) | ||
Andrew Bosman | South African Air Force | 10½ | |||
Richard Joseph Audet † | Royal Canadian Air Force | 10½ | Ace in a day | ||
Marshall U. Beebe | U.S. Navy | 10½ | |||
George F. Ceulleers | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10½ | |||
Jack E. Conger | U.S. Marine Corps | 10½ | |||
George A. Doersch | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10½ | (+½ ground kill) | ||
Niilo Erkinheimo | Finnish Air Force | 10½ | |||
William J. Hovde | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10½ | +1 in Korean War | (+2 ground kills) | |
Martti Kalima | Finnish Air Force | 10½ | |||
Kullervo Lahtela | Finnish Air Force | 10½ | |||
Raymond H. Littge | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10½ | (+13 ground kills) | ||
Kai Metsola | Finnish Air Force | 10½ | |||
John V. Newkirk | American Volunteer Group | 10½ | |||
Eino Peltola | Finnish Air Force | 10½ | |||
Edward Rector | American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces | 10½ | victories with 2 air forces | ||
Russell E. Reiserer | U.S. Navy | 10½ | |||
John A. Storch | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10½ | (+1½ ground kills) | ||
John C. Symmes | U.S. Navy | 10½ | |||
Robert E. Murray | U.S. Navy | 10.4 | |||
Ralph E. Elliot | U.S. Navy | 10.3 | |||
Fred W. Glover | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10.3 | (+12½ ground kills) | ||
Bobby Gibbes | Royal Australian Air Force | 10¼ | |||
William D. McGarry | American Volunteer Group | 10¼ | |||
Stanley W. Vejtasa | U.S. Navy | 10¼ | Ace in a day | ||
Robert W Aschenbrenner | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
Wilfred Arthur | Royal Australian Air Force | 10 | |||
Virgil Brennan | Royal Australian Air Force | 10 | |||
Colin Parkinson | Royal Australian Air Force | 10 | |||
Frank B. Baldwin | U.S. Marine Corps | 10 | |||
Wayne K. Blickenstaff | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
Archie Boyd | Royal Air Force | 10 | |||
Joseph E. Broadhead | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
Carl A. Brown, Jr. | U.S. Navy | 10 | |||
Thaddeus T. Coleman | U.S. Navy | 10 | |||
William K. Giroux | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
Walter J. Goehausen, Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
George Ernest Goodman † | Royal Air Force | 10 | +6 shared | ||
Ernest A. Harris | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
Iro Ilk | Luftwaffe | 10 | |||
Alwin M. Juchheim, Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | (+6 ground kills) | ||
Veikko Karu | Finnish Air Force | 10 | |||
Mauno Kirjonen | Finnish Air Force | 10 | |||
Ahti Laitinen | Finnish Air Force | 10 | |||
Robert Little † | American Volunteer Group | 10 | |||
Edward E. Lines | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
Herbert H. Long | U.S. Marine Corps | 10 | |||
Thomas H. Mann, Jr. | U.S. Marine Corps | 10 | |||
Miroslav J. Mansfeld | Royal Air Force | 10 | (+2 V-1 flying bombs) | ||
Joseph L. Mansker | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
Harris E. Mitchell | U.S. Navy | 10 | |||
Mikko Pasila | Finnish Air Force | 10 | |||
Steve Pisanos | Royal Air Force; U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
Robert J. Rankin | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
Thomas H. Reidy | U.S. Navy | 10 | |||
Andrew J. Reynolds | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
Robert L. Scott, Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
Arthur Singer, Jr. | U.S. Navy | 10 | |||
John M. Smith | U.S. Navy | 10 | |||
Claudio Solaro | Regia Aeronautica | 10 | +1 in Spanish Civil War | ||
Paul M. Stanch | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
Josef Stehlík | Royal Air Force | 10 | |||
Elliot Summer | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
James S. Swope | U.S. Navy | 10 | |||
Ennio Tarantola | Regia Aeronautica | 10 | +1 in Spanish Civil War | ||
Adriano Visconti | Regia Aeronautica | 10 | |||
Robert V. Westermark | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
Ion Dobran | Royal Romanian Air Force | 10 | |||
Nicolae Polizu-Micsunesti | Royal Romanian Air Force | 10 | |||
Dumitru Ilie | Royal Romanian Air Force | 10 | |||
Fletcher E. Adams | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 ½ | |||
Frederick Alan Aikman | Royal Canadian Air Force | 9 ½ | |||
Ernest E. Bankey, Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 ½ | (+8 ground kills) | ||
Leonard J. Check | U.S. Navy | 9 ½ | |||
Edward Coate | Royal Australian Air Force | 9 ½ | |||
Ernest C. Fiebelkorn | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 ½ | possibly just 9 (+2 ground kills) | ||
Aleksander Gabszewicz | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 9 ½ | |||
Michał Maciejowski | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 9 ½ | |||
Dale F. Spencer | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 ½ | (+½ ground kill) | ||
Robert C. Coats | U.S. Navy | 9 ⅓ | |||
Mirosław Ferić | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 9 ⅓ | |||
Henryk Szczęsny | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 9 ⅓ | |||
Charles R. Bond | American Volunteer Group | 9 ¼ | |||
Stephen W. Andrew | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | (+6½ ground kills) | ||
William M. Banks | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 ½ | |||
Emanuele Annoni | Regia Aeronautica | 9 | |||
Lee "Buddy" Archer | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | (+6 ground kills) Only African-American ace in WWII | ||
Roderick Bowes | Royal Australian Air Force | 9 | |||
Aleksander Chudek | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 9 | |||
Edgar R. Bassett † | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
Norman R. Berree | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
William R. Bland | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
George E. Bostwick | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | (+6 ground kills) | ||
Mark K. Bright | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
Paul D. Buie | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
Lajos Buday † | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 9 | |||
Henry A. Carey, Jr. | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
Frederick F. Champlin | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Frank J. Collins | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | possibly just 8 | ||
William M. Collins, Jr. | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
Richard L. Cormier | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
Louis Edward Curdes | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Perry A. Dahl | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Jefferson J. DeBlanc | U.S. Marine Corps | 9 | Ace in a day | ||
Richard W. Dunkin | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Charles H. Dyson | Royal Air Force | 9 | Ace in a day (six minutes) | ||
Richard T. Eastmond | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
Robert A. Elder | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | (+2 ground kills) | ||
Eugene H. Emmons | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Jan Falkowski | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 9 | |||
Grover E. Fanning | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Edward L. Feightner | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
Sylvan Feld | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Joseph M. Forester | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Marvin J. Franger | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
Doris C. Freeman | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
Kenneth W. Gallup | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | (+2 ground kills) | ||
Antoni Glowacki | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 9 | Ace in a day | ||
Thomas S. Harris | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
Frederick R. Haviland, Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | (+6 ground kills) | ||
Allen E. Hill | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Frank D. Hurlburt | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
James Timothy Kearney | Royal Australian Air Force | 9 | |||
George C. Kiser | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Joseph J. Lesicka | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Christopher L. Magee | U.S. Marine Corps | 9 | |||
Louis A. Menard, Jr. | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
Virgil K. Merony | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Stanley B. Morrill | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Walter Omiccioli | Regia Aeronautica | 9 | |||
Edmund F. Overend | American Volunteer Group; U.S. Marine Corps | 9 | victories with 2 air forces | ||
Lloyd J. Overfield | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Joel B. Paris III | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Eugene D. Redmond | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
William N. Reed | American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | victories with 2 air forces | ||
Daniel R. Rehm, Jr. | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
Eugene P. Roberts | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Hans-Ulrich Rudel | Luftwaffe | 9 | Also a top ground attack pilot, with 2000+ targets destroyed | ||
Meryl M. Smith | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Robert T. Smith | American Volunteer Group | 9 | |||
Natalino Stabile | Regia Aeronautica | 9 | + 1 in Spanish Civil War | ||
James S. Stewart | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
John S. Stewart | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Franklin C. Thomas, Jr. | U.S. Marine Corps | 9 | |||
Arthur Van Haren, Jr. | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
Benjamin F. Warmer | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Robert H. White | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Isamu Kashiide | Imperial Japanese Army | 9 | claims 26 B-29s and 7 Soviet fighters | ||
Judge E. Wolfe | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Gheorghe Popescu Ciocanel | Royal Romanian Air Force | 9 | |||
Stefan Greceanu | Royal Romanian Air Force | 9 | |||
Gheorghe Cocebas | Royal Romanian Air Force | 9 | |||
Andrei Radulescu | Royal Romanian Air Force | 9 | |||
Charles E. Watts | U.S. Navy | 8.75 | |||
John L. Banks | U.S. Navy | 8½ | |||
William E. Bryan, Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8½ | |||
Stanisław Brzeski | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 8½ | |||
James B. Cain | U.S. Navy | 8½ | |||
Charles J. Cesky | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8½ | |||
Oscar I. Chenoweth | U.S. Navy | 8½ | |||
Arthur Chin | Chinese Nationalist Air Force | 8½ | First American ace of WWII, flew biplane fighter | ||
Frank A. Cutler | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8½ | (+3 ground kills) | ||
Carl C. Foster | U.S. Navy | 8½ | |||
John F. Gray | U.S. Navy | 8½ | |||
Everett G. Hargreaves | U.S. Navy | 8½ | |||
Thomas L. Hayes, Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8½ | |||
Zdzisław Henneberg † | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 8½ | |||
John H. Hoefker | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8½ | |||
Otto D. Jenkins | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8½ | (+2 ground kills) | ||
Arthur G. Johnson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8½ | |||
George Noel Keith † | Royal Canadian Air Force | 8½ | |||
Wacław Król | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 8½ | |||
Frank L. Lawlor | American Volunteer Group | 8½ | |||
Gregory K. Loesch | U.S. Marine Corps | 8½ | |||
Carl J. Luksic | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8½ | (+7 ground kills) | ||
Donald McDowell | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8½ | |||
Bernard J. McGrattan | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8½ | |||
Sanford K. Moats | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8½ | |||
John L. Morgan, Jr. | U.S. Marine Corps | 8½ | |||
George W. Pigman | U.S. Navy | 8½ | |||
Claude W. Plant | U.S. Navy | 8½ | |||
Albert L. Schlegel | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8½ | |||
Dallas Schmidt | Royal Canadian Air Force | 8½ | |||
Larry R. Self | U.S. Navy | 8½ | |||
Antoni Głowacki | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 8⅓ | |||
Eugeniusz Szaposznikow | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 8⅓ | |||
John Fraser Drummond | Royal Air Force | 8⅓ | |||
Franklin T. Gabriel | U.S. Navy | 8¼ | |||
George Bray McMillan | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8¼ | (+1 ground kills) | ||
Adolf Pietrasiak | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 8.1 | |||
Witold Łokuciewski | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 8 | |||
Erich Büttner | Luftwaffe | 8 | Jet ace with all victories in Me 262 | ||
John M. Ainlay | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | possibly just 7 | ||
John R. Alison | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
David W. Allen (USAAF) | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Frederick A. Bardshar | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
Lloyd G. Barnard | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
Walter G. Benz, Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
William J. Bonneau | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
Robert J. Booth | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Roy O. Burnett, Jr. | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
Walter J. Carroll, Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
William N. Case | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | |||
J. D. Collinsworth | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | possibly just 6 | ||
Arthur W. Cruikshank | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Václav Cukr-Cooper | Royal Air Force | 8 | |||
Fernley H. Damstrom | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
John F. Dobbin | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | |||
Landis E. Doner | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
Frederick J. Dorsch | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Walter F. Duke | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
William C. Edens | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | (+3 ground kills) | ||
John L. Elder | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | (+13 ground kills) | ||
Eric A. Evenson | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
Arthur C. Fielder, Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Francis M. Fleming | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
James M. Fowle | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
William A. Gardner | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Frank Gaunt | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | possibly just 7 | ||
Francis R. Gerard | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Clement D. Gile | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
Maxwell H. Glenn | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | possibly just 5 (+3 ground kills) | ||
Mathew M. Gordon | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Leroy V. Grosshuesch | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Fred E. Gutt | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | |||
Mayo A. Hadden, Jr. | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
Aladár Heppes | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 8 | |||
Frederick A. Harris | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Kenneth F. Hart | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Edwin J. Herman (or Hernan), Jr. | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | |||
George L. Hollowell | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | |||
Angus Horne | Royal Air Force | 8 | |||
Jack M. Ilfrey | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Michael J. Jackson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | (+5½ ground kills) | ||
Byron M. Johnson | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
John M. Johnson | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
John L. Jones | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Claiborne H. Kinnard | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | (+17 ground kills) | ||
Pál Kovács (pilot) † | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 8 | |||
Charles M. Kunz | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | |||
William N. Leonard | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
Elvin L. Lindsay | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
Thomas E. Maloney | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | possibly just 7 | ||
William R. Maxwell | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
Earl May, Jr. | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
Johnnie G. Miller | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
Erich Mix | Luftwaffe | 8 | +3 in World War I | possibly 13 | |
William W. Momyer | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Douglas W. Mulcahey | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
Alva C. Murphy | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Joseph L. Narr | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | |||
George P. Novotny | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
John G. O'Neill | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Edward M. Owen | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
Nathan T. Post | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | |||
Luther D. Prater, Jr. | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
Edward F. Roddy | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Robert R. Rowland | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Philip Sangermano (FO) | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Charles W. Sawyer | American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | victories with 2 air forces | ||
Glenn D. Schiltz Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
David A. Scott | U.S. Navy | 8 | possibly 9 | ||
Dale E. Shafer | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Robert M. Shaw | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
William A. Shomo | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Robert H. Smith | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Gordon Arthur Stanley | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
Arland Stanton | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
John L. Sublett | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Leopold Šrom | Royal Air Force | 8 | |||
James B. Tapp | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Philip Edward Tovrea Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
James O. Tyler | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
John W. Vogt, Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Boyd D. "Buzz" Wagner | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | First U.S. Armed Forces ace, within nine days of Attack on Pearl Harbor | ||
Victor E. Warford | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Arthur T. Warner | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | |||
Charles E. Weaver | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | (+3 ground kills) | ||
Hans-Dieter Weihs | Luftwaffe | 8 | Jet ace with all victories in Me 262 | ||
Norman. F Williams | Royal Australian Air Force | 8 | Bomber rear gunner, only non-fighter plane ace of WWII | ||
Rex Kerslake Wilson | Royal Australian Air Force | 8 | |||
Theodore H. Winters, Jr. | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
Donald K. Yost | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | |||
Dan Scurtu | Royal Romanian Air Force | 8 | |||
Traian Dirjan | Royal Romanian Air Force | 8 | |||
Eugen Cameceanu | Royal Romanian Air Force | 8 | |||
Mihai Mihordea | Royal Romanian Air Force | 8 | |||
Ioan Panaite | Royal Romanian Air Force | 8 | |||
Joseph L. Lang | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7.83 | |||
Everett W. Stewart | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7.83 | (+1.5 ground kills) | ||
Józef Jeka | Polish Air Forces/Royal Air Force | 7½ | |||
Henryk Pietrzak | Polish Air Forces/Royal Air Force | 7½ | |||
Howard M. Burriss | U.S. Navy | 7½ | |||
Kenneth J. Dahms | U.S. Navy | 7½ | |||
Vermont Garrison | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7.3 | +10 in Korean War | ||
Noel le Chevalier Agazarian † | Royal Air Force | 7 | |||
Alfred Ambs | Luftwaffe | 7 | Jet ace with all victories in Me 262 | ||
William Y. Anderson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | (+1 V-1 flying bomb) | ||
Karl-Heinz Becker | Luftwaffe | 7 | Jet ace with all victories in Me 262 | ||
Rolf Arne Berg † | Royal Air Force | 7 | |||
Marian Bełc | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 7 | |||
Harry W. Brown | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | |||
Liu Chui-Kang / Liu Cuigang | Chinese Nationalist Air Force | 7 | |||
Robert A. Dibb | U.S. Navy | 7 | |||
Furio Niclot Doglio | Regia Aeronautica | 7 | |||
Bolesław Drobiński | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 7 | |||
Helmut Eberspächer | Luftwaffe | 7 | |||
Hugh C. Godefroy | Royal Air Force; Royal Canadian Air Force | 7 | |||
Gordon M. Graham | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | (+9.5 ground kills) | ||
Roger Haberman | U.S. Marine Corps | 7 | |||
Pál Irányi | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 7 | |||
Václav Jícha | Royal Air Force | 7 | |||
Stanisław Karubin | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 7 | |||
Konstantin Kokkinaki | Soviet Air Forces | 7 | +7 in Second Sino-Japanese War | ||
Franz Köster | Luftwaffe | 7 | Jet ace with all victories in Me 262 | ||
Otmar Kučera | Royal Air Force | 7 | |||
Wolfgang Kuthe † | Luftwaffe | 7 | Night fighter ace | ||
Béla Lipcsey | Luftwaffe | 7 | |||
Bert W. Marshall, Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | (+4 ground kills) | ||
Iosif Moraru | Royal Romanian Air Force | 7 | |||
Liviu Muresan | Royal Romanian Air Force | 7 | |||
Giuseppe Oblach | Regia Aeronautica | 7 | |||
Edward "Butch" O'Hare † | U.S. Navy | 7 | |||
Sammy A. Pierce | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | |||
Stanislav Plzák | Royal Air Force | 7 | |||
Constantin Pomut | Royal Romanian Air Force | 7 | |||
Walter Prues | Luftwaffe | 7 | Night fighter ace | ||
Arval J. Roberson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | (+1 ground kill) | ||
Ferruccio Serafini | Regia Aeronautica | 7 | |||
Ernest Shipman | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | |||
Parsifal Stefanescu | Royal Romanian Air Force | 7 | |||
Kálmán Szeverényi † | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 7 | |||
György Ujszászy | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 7 | |||
Tomáš Vybíral | Royal Air Force | 7 | |||
Sydney S. Woods | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | |||
Robert E. Woody | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | (+2 ground kills) | ||
Karol Pniak | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 6.75 | |||
Basil Gerald "Stapme" Stapleton | Royal Air Force | 6.66 | |||
Howard Peter Blatchford † | Royal Canadian Air Force | 6½ | |||
Lloyd Chadburn † | Royal Canadian Air Force | 6½ | |||
James Douglas Lindsay | Royal Canadian Air Force | 6½ | +2 in Korean War | ||
Willard Eder | U.S. Navy | 6½ | |||
Russell Foskett | Royal Australian Air Force | 6½ | |||
Wacław Łapkowski | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 6.33 | |||
Alan Peart | Royal Air Force | 6.33 | |||
Horia Agarici | Royal Romanian Air Force | 6 | |||
Florin Alexiu | Royal Romanian Air Force | 6 | |||
GianLino Baschirotto | Regia Aeronautica | 6 | +5 in Spanish Civil War | ||
Livio Bassi | Regia Aeronautica | 6 | |||
Wolfrat Bauer † | Luftwaffe | 6 | Night fighter ace | ||
Henry S. Bille | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | (+4 ground kills) | ||
Scrappy Blumer | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | Ace in a day (fifteen minutes) | ||
James B. Dalglish | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | (+3 V-1 flying bombs) | ||
František Doležal | Royal Air Force | 6 | |||
Josef Dygrýn-Ligotický | Royal Air Force | 6 | |||
Stanislav Fejfar | Royal Air Force | 6 | |||
Guido Fibbia | Regia Aeronautica | 6 | +3 in Spanish Civil War | ||
Carlos Faustinos | Mexican Air Force | 6 | Also known as Charlie Foster. | ||
Ervin Flóznik † | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | |||
James W. Griffis | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | |||
Clayton Kelly Gross | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | 355th FS, 354th FG, ETO | ||
Fred R. Haviland, Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | (+6 ground kills) | ||
Horace B. Moranville | U.S. Navy | 6 | |||
James P. Hagerstrom | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | |||
Stefan Janus | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 6 | |||
Oskar Köstler † | Luftwaffe | 6 | |||
Fritz Kruse † | Luftwaffe | 6 | Night fighter ace | ||
Kenneth Lake | U.S. Navy | 6 | |||
Mihály Karátsonyi | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | |||
Lajos Kracsenics | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | |||
Mátyás Lőrincz † | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | |||
János Mátyás | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | |||
György Michna | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | |||
Norman W. Mollard, Jr. | U.S. Navy | 6 | |||
Kálmán Nánási † | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | |||
Norman E. Olson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | (+2 ground kills) | ||
Theo Osterkamp | Luftwaffe | 6 | +32 in World War I | ||
Edward Cobb Outlaw | U.S. Navy | 6 | Ace in a day | ||
Imre Pánczél † | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | |||
Ludwik Witold Paszkiewicz | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 6 | |||
Eduard M. Prchal | Royal Air Force | 6 | |||
Radu Reinek | Royal Romanian Air Force | 6 | |||
Thomas J. Rennemo | U.S. Navy | 6 | |||
W. R. Scheible | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | (+3 ground Kills) | ||
Pál Szikora | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | |||
Gheorghe Tutuianu | Royal Romanian Air Force | 6 | |||
Constantin Ursachi | Royal Romanian Air Force | 6 | |||
Remy Van Lierde | Royal Air Force | 6 | (+44 V-1 flying bombs) | ||
Ioan Vornica | Royal Romanian Air Force | 6 | |||
James Henry Whalen † | Royal Canadian Air Force | 6 | |||
William E. Whalen | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | (+2 ground kills) | ||
Lynn E. Witt, Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | |||
Yue Yi-Chin / Yue Yiqin | Chinese Nationalist Air Force | 6 | |||
Dean S. Laird | U.S. Navy | 5¾ | |||
Gordon B. Compton | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5½ | (+15 ground kills) | ||
Norman J. Fortier | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5.83 | (+5.5 ground kills) | ||
Walter J. Koraleski | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5.54 | |||
Robert P. Winks | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5.5 | |||
William Cundy | Royal Australian Air Force | 5½ | |||
Charles W. Lenfest | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5½ | (+2 ground kills) | ||
Leslie D. Minchew | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5½ | (+ 1/2 ground kills) | ||
Laurence Stark | Royal Air Force | 5½ | |||
Kazimierz Rutkowski | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 5½ | |||
Stefan Witorzeńć | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 5½ | |||
Czesław Główczyński | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 5½ | |||
Michał Cwynar | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 5½ | |||
Mieczysław Mümler | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 5½ | |||
Bolesław Własnowolski | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 5½ | |||
James E. Duffy, Jr | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5.2 | (+9 ground kills) | ||
Raymond B. Myers | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | (+4 ground kills) | ||
William J. Cullerton | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | (+15 ground kills) | ||
Hayden A. "Buck" Gregory | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Otto Böhner | Luftwaffe | 5 | |||
František Chábera | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
Joseph Heim | Luftwaffe | 5 | Jet ace with all victories in Me 262 | ||
Alfred Schreiber | Luftwaffe | 5 | Jet ace – first ever confirmed – with all victories in Me 262 | ||
Ulrich Steinhilper | Luftwaffe | 5 | |||
Tony Jonsson | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
Pentti Tilli | Finnish Air Force | 5 | |||
Robert W. Abernathy | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Fred T. Ackerman | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Oliver L. Adair | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Robert H. Adams (USAAF) | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
John W. Agnew | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
William H. Allen (USAAF) | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Stuart C. Alley Jr | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Ernest J. Ambort | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Robert H. Ammon | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | (+9 ground kills) | ||
Benjamin C. Amsden | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Leslie E. Anderson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Richard H. Anderson (USAAF) | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Lester L. Arasmith | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
William E. Aron | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Richard W. Asbury | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Abner M. Aust | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Eugene D. Axtell | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Donald A. Baccus | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Jack A. Bade | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Oscar C. Bailey | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Raphael F. Baird | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Donald L. Balch | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Robert P. Baldwin | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Raymond W. Bank | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Bruce M. Barackman | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Rex T. Barber | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Robert M. Barkey | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Truman S. Barnes | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Albert Baumler | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | +6 in Spanish Civil War | ||
Aaron L. Bearden | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Edward H. Beavers Jr | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
József Bejczi † | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 5 | |||
Louis Benne | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Jack S. Berkheimer | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Richard L. Bertelson | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
James D. Billo | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Lewis S. Bishop | American Volunteer Group | 5 | |||
Walter D. Bishop | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Foster J. Blair | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
William K. Blair | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Richard B. Blaydes | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Ladislav Bobek | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
Victor E. Bocquin | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
John W. Bolyard | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Robert R. Bonebrake | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Robert R. Bonner Jr | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Guy P. Bordelon | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Clarence A. Borley | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Ernest O. Bostrom | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Wilbur L. Bowen | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Fred E. Bowker | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
John L. Bradley | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Richard L. Braun | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Gerald A. Brown | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Jasper R. Brown | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Paul J. Bruneau | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Robert L. Buchanan | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Robert G. Burns | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Robert L. Byrnes | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
John B. Carder | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
William A. Carlton | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Nial K. Castle | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Henry K. Champion | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
George T. Chandler | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Van E. Chandler | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | +3 in Korean War | ||
Joseph J. Cielinski | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Arthur B. Cleaveland | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Donald C. Clements | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Robert E. Clements | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Dallas A. Clinger | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Vivian A. Cloud | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Paul R. Cochran | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
William F. Collins | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Philip E. Colman | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | +4 in Korean War | ||
Harold E. Comstock | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Harry L. Condon | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Merle M. Coons | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Leland B. Cornell | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Ralph L. Cox | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Niven K. Cranfill | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
William S. Crombie | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
John O. Cross | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Omer W. Culbertson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Arthur C. Cundy | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Warren D. Curton | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Evžen Čížek | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
William A. Daniel | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Clarence E. Davies | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Leonard K. Davis | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
George E. Dawkins Jr | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Roald Dahl | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
William C. Day Jr | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Richard S. Deakins | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
George Della | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Reuben H. Denoff | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Frederick E. Dick | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Michael Dikovitsky | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Harry W. Dorris | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Cecil J. Doyle | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Charles W. Drake | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Daniel B. Driscoll | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Willie Driscoll | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Francis E. Dubisher | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Charles H. Dubois | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
James E. Duffy (USN) | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Richard E. Duffy | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Joseph L. Egen Jr | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Hugh M. Elwood | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
James W. Empey | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Lyle A. Erickson | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Herman E. Ernst | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Charles D. Farmer | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Robert A. Farnsworth Jr | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
William Farrell (USMC) | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Richard D. Faxon | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Marion C. Felts | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
James E. Fenex Jr | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
William Fiedler (USAAF) | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Virgil C. Fields Jr | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Howard J. Finn | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Charles R. Fischette | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Harry E. Fisk | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Nelson D. Flack Jr | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Kenneth A. Flinn | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Ralph E. Foltz | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Paul J. Fontana | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Claude E. Ford | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Kenneth M. Ford | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
George Formanek Jr | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Béla Füleky † | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 5 | |||
Bohumil Fürst-Fiřt | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
Dwight B. Galt | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Warner F. Gardner | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Noel Gayler | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Steven N. Gerick | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Grover D. Ghelson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Robert D. Gibb | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Cyrus R. Gladen | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Lindley W. Godson | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Norman D. Gould | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Giorgio Graffer | Regia Aeronautica | 5 | |||
Robert F. Graham | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Vernon E. Graham | U.S. Navy | 5 | Ace in a day | ||
Hayden A. Gregory | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Robert C. Griffith | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
William Grosvenor Jr | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Lindsay W. Grove | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Cheatham W. Gupton | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Albert E. Hacking | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Samuel E. Hammer | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Harry T. Hanna | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Christopher J. Hansenman | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Josef G. Hanuš | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
Walter R. Harman | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Thomas L. Harris (USAAF) | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Raymond E. Hartley | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Herbert B. Hatch | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Charles D. Hauver | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Sándor Hautzinger | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 5 | |||
Russell C. Haworth | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Frank R. Hayde | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Frank C. Hearrell | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Charles F. Held Jr | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Paul M. Henderson Jr | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Randall W. Hendricks | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
James E. Hill | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Richard Hope Hillary | Royal Air Force | 5 | (+2 probables) | ||
Donald E. Hillman | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Kenneth G. Hippe | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Edwin M. Hiro | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Garrett P. Hopkins | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | (+6 probables) | ||
Myron M. Hnatio | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
John B. Hoag | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
William R. Hodges | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Cullen J. Hoffman | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Louis Hoffman | American Volunteer Group | 5 | |||
Herbert N. Houck | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Edward R. Hoyt | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Mark E. Hubbard | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Howard R. Hudson | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Alvaro J. Hunter | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
András Huszár | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 5 | |||
Joseph W. Icard | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Julius W. Ireland | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Clayton M. Isaacson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Svatopluk Janouch | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
Hayden M. Jensen | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Evan M. Johnson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Wallace R. Johnson | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Curran L. Jones | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Frank C. Jones | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | (+ 5.5 ground kills) | ||
Lynn F. Jones | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Warren L. Jones | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Joseph W. Jorda | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
William M. Julian | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Charles Kendrick | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Daniel Kennedy | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Robert H. Kidwell | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Melvin B. Kimball | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
John R. Kincaid | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Charles W. King (USAAF) | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
David L. King | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Marion F. Kirby | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Lenton F. Kirkland | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Ernő Kiss (pilot) | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 5 | |||
Jan Klán | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
Robert H. Knapp | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Carroll S. Knott | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Edward H. Kopsel | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
William J. Kostic | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Bedřich Krátkoruký | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
Jiří V. Kučera | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
Wayne W. Laird | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
William E. Lamoreaux | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Richard C. Lampe | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Willis Laney | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Ned W. Langdon | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Thomas G. Lanphier | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Franklin C. Lathrope | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Charles H. Laughlin | American Volunteer Group | 5 | |||
George Laven | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Earl R. Lazear | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Harold K. Lee | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Richard J. Lee | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Marlow J. Leikness | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Charles W. Lenfest | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Jack Lenox Jr | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
John A. Leppla | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Alfred B. Lewelling | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Brooks J. Liles | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | +4 in Korean War | ||
Hugh D. Lillie | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
James W. Little | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | +1 in Korean War | ||
John Lolos | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Charles P. London | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Donald Lopez | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
George G. Loving, Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
John F. Luma | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Lowell C. Lutton | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
John A. Mackay | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Morton D. Magoffin | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Keith Mahon | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Jackson C. Mankin | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Lee P. Mankin | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Harry A. March Jr | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Luigi Mariotti | Regia Aeronautica | 5 | |||
Lester C. Marsh | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Albert E. Martin Jr | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Kenneth R. Martin | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Joseph L. Mason | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
William H. Mathis | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Joseph Z. Matte | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Chester K. Maxwell | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Benjamin I. Mayo | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Paul G. McArthur | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Henry A. McCartney Jr | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Leo B. McCudden | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
William F. McDownough | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
James N. McElroy | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | (+6 ground kills) | ||
John L. McGinn | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Selva E. McGinty | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Samuel E. McGuffin | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
John W. McGuyrt | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Donald J. McKinley | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
George. McMillan | American Volunteer Group | 5 | |||
Evan D. MacMinn | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Donald M. McPherson | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
George L. Merritt Jr | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | (+6 ground kills) | ||
Frederick H. Michaelis | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Everett Miller | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Joseph E. Miller | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Robert C. Milliken | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Charles Milton | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Marinos Mitralexis | Royal Hellenic Air Force | 5 | |||
Arthur P. Mollenhauer | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Franklin H. Monk | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Robert H. Moore | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Paul V. Morriss | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Arthur H. Munson | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Jennings S. Myers | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Joseph R. Myshrall | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Leslie D. Nelson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Robert J. Nelson | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Franklin A. Nichols | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Edward M. Nollmeyer | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Marvin R. Novak | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Jack G. Oberhansky | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Frank O'Brien Jr | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Edwin L. Olander | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Austin L. Olsen | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Paul E. Olson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Enzo Omiccioli | Regia Aeronautica | 5 | |||
Eugene W. O'Neill Jr | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Lawrence F. O'Neill | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | 347th FG, 342nd Fighter Squadron, PTO | ||
Ernest K. Osher | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Robert J. Overcash | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Edward W. Overton Jr | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Joel A. Owens | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Melvyn R. Paisley | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Tibor Papp | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 5 | |||
Forrest F. Parham | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Edsel Paulk | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Oscar F. Perdomo | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | Ace in a day | ||
John Petach | American Volunteer Group | 5 | |||
Costantino Petrosellini | Regia Aeronautica | 5 | |||
David P. Philips III | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Edward A. Phillips | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Hyde Phillips | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Kenneth R. Pool | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Edward S. Popek | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Robert B. Porter | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
George H. Poske | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Ernest A. Powell | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
MacArthur Powers | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Jack C. Price | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Royce W. Priest | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Roger C. Pryor | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Josef Příhoda | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
Rajmund Půda | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
Donald L. Quigley | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Robert J. Raines | American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | victories with 2 air forces | ||
Orvin H. Ramlo | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
WIlliam C. Reese | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Joseph E. Reulet | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Thomas W. Rhodes | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Vincent A. Rieger | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Andrew Ritchey | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Newell O. Roberts | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Leroy W. Robinson | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Ross F. Robinson | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Franklin Rose | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
János Róza | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 5 | |||
Gerald L. Rounds | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Henry S. Rudolph | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
William A. Rynne | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Hartwell V. Scarborough | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Thomas D. Schank | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Gordon E. Schecter | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
John L. Schell | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Raymond Scherer | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
James F. Schilke | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Louis Schriber | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Duerr H. Schuh | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Robert B. Schultz | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Harry H. Sealey | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Alexander F. Sears | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Robert B. See | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Carlo Seganti | Regia Aeronautica | 5 | |||
Robert K. Seidman | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Charles A. Shields | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Lester H. Sipes | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Frank Sistrunk | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Jack R. Smith | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Kenneth B. Smith (USAAF) | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Kenneth D. Smith | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Virgil H. Smith | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Irl V. Sonner Jr | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
James J. Southerland | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Arthur Spurgin | Royal Australian Air Force | 5 | |||
Clyde P. Spitler | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
William J. Stangel | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Morris A. Stanley | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Edgar E. Stebbins | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Edward J. Stefanski | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Raymond D. Stehle | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Carl V. Stone | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Johnnie C. Strange | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Richard C. Suehr | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Charles P. Sullivan | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Robert C. Sutcliffe | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
John F. Sutherland | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Ladislav Světlík | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
John F. Swinburne Jr. | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
William J. Sykes | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | (+5 ground kills) | ||
Stanley Synar | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Oliver B. Taylor | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
William W. Taylor (USN) | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Robert D. Thompson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
John A. Tilley | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Edward W. Toaspern | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
John W. Topliff | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Harrison B. Tordoff | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Ross E. Torkelson | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Eugene P. Townsend | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Clifton H. Troxell | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Peter J. Van Der Linden | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Rudolph D. Van Dyke | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Robert H. Vaught Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
John E. Vogt | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Horace Q. Waggoner | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | (+7.5 ground kills) | ||
Walter B. Walker Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Lyttleton T. Ward | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Jack R. Warren | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Ralph J. Watson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Sidney W. Wheatherford | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Willard J. Webb | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Gregory J. Weissenberger | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Darrell G. Welch | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Albert P. Welles | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Robert G. West | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Harry S. White | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
John H. White (USAAF) | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
David C. Wilhelm | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Paul H. Wilkins | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
William F. Wilson | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Russell D. Williams | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Robert A. Winston | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Ralph L. Wire | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Lee V. Wiseman | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
John L. Wolford | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
George L. Wrenn | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Max J. Wright | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Vasseure F. Wynn | Royal Air Force; U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | victories with 2 air forces | ||
Robert R. Yaeger Jr. | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Robert M. York | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Michael R. Yunck | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Aurel Tifrea | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | |||
Constantin Popescu | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | |||
Constantin Nicoară | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | |||
Petre Cordescu | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | |||
Aurel Tifrea | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | |||
Hariton Dusescu | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | |||
Vintilă Brătianu | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | |||
Nicolae Burileanu | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | |||
Laurențiu Catană | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | |||
Erich Selei | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | |||
Gheorghe Cristea | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | |||
Mircea Dumitrescu | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | |||
Urban L. Drew | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | |||
Michael T. Russo | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | Only A-36 Ace in the History | ||
Robert Mcwherter | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | First Three kill with 17th PS in the PTO, other three with 363rd FS in ETO | ||
Samual Wicker | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | 364th Fighter Squadron, ETO | ||
John H. Lowell | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7,5 | Acting commanding officer of 364th Fighter Group | ||
Claude J. Crenshaw | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | (+ 3 on the Ground) Crewshaw shot down 4 Fw190 in one day with three working MG | ||
Harry C. Crim | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | (+5.25 damage) 531st Fighter Squadron, PTO | ||
Leonard R. Reeves | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | DFC, 530th Fighter Squadron, CBI | ||
John F. Pugh | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | 357th FG, 362nd Fighter Squadron, ETO | ||
Calvin D. Allen | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | 52nd FG, 5th Fighter Squadron, ETO | ||
Gus A. Daymond | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | 4th FG, 334th Fighter Squadron, ETO | ||
Ralph Wandrey | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | 49th FG, 9th Fighter Squadron, PTO |
See also
References
- Citations
- Holmes p. 314
- Mark Axworthy, London: Arms and Armour, 1995, Third Axis, Fourth Ally: Romanian Armed Forces in the European War, 1941–1945, p. 310
- By 1945, combat experienced Japanese airmen were often detailed to provide fighter escort for newer inexperienced Kamikazi pilots en route to their targets in the Pacific
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