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    A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The exact number...
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  • 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...
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  • closely associated with fighter aces, though there are other types, such as tank aces and submarine aces.[citation needed] Ace of aces is a title accorded...
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  • English). Milan: Giorgio Apostolo. Spick, Mike: The complete fighter ace - All the World's Fighter Aces, 1914–2000. London, Greenhill Books, 1999. ISBN 1-85367-255-6...
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  • Fighter Ace was a massively multiplayer online combat flight simulation game series in which one flies World War II fighter planes in combat against other...
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    Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor, the top scoring South African ace of the war, was piloting an SE5a fighter with Royal Air Force No 84 Squadron when he shot down...
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    fighter pilot with at least five air-to-air kills becomes known as an ace. Fighter pilots are one of the most highly regarded and desirable positions of...
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  • Eugene Bullard, African-American World War I fighter pilot "Blackie" – David John Williams, Canadian fighter ace "Blinker" – W. R. Hall, British admiral,...
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    This is a list of fighter aces in World War II from Germany. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more...
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  • 1922 – 20 September 1993) was a German fighter pilot during World War II and the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. He flew...
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  • German fighter ace (died 1917 in action) 3 March – Fritz Rumey, German fighter ace (died 1918 in action) 24 March – Rudolf Berthold, German fighter ace (died...
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  • World War II aces credited with 100 or more victories is a subset list of all fighter aces in World War II. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military...
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  • American Fighter Aces Association is a non-profit organization which recognizes the 1,450 combat American pilots (referred to as Aces) who have had five...
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  • flying ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft. Flying Ace or Fighter Ace may also refer to: Flying Aces (magazine)...
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  • palm General Charles de Gaulle (1 citation) Fighter ace lieutenant Charles Nungesser (30 citations) Fighter ace captain Georges Guynemer (26 citations) General...
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  • successful fighter ace during World War I in Russia and France Yekaterina Budanova, World War II pilot, one of the world's two female fighter aces Valery...
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  • Lydia Litvyak (category Soviet World War II flying aces)
    first female fighter pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft, the first of two female fighter pilots who have earned the title of fighter ace and the holder...
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    Pilot and Observer Aces, the British Two-seater Fighter Observer Aces, and the Belgian, Italian, Austro-Hungarian and Russian Fighter Aces, 1914–1918: Volume...
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    camps through slave labor. The Bf 109 was flown by the three top-scoring fighter aces of all time, who claimed 928 victories among them while flying with Jagdgeschwader...
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  • additional material from fighter ace Cecil Lewis's memoir, Sagittarius Rising. The screenplay was written by Howard Barker. Aces High turns the trench warfare...
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  • Y Z "Aggy" – Noel Agazarian, British, Battle of Britain ace "Assi" – Hans Hahn, German fighter pilot during World War II "Bake" – V. H. Baker, British...
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  • 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...
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    Karaya, in honor of the World War II German fighter pilot Erich Hartmann, the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare.[unreliable...
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    Joe Foss (category American World War II flying aces)
    1, 2003) was a United States Marine Corps Major and a leading Marine fighter ace in World War II. He received the Medal of Honor in recognition of his...
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  • This is a list of fighter aces in World War II from Poland. Contents:  Top A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also References Notes...
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    Ghost of Kyiv (category Fictional fighter pilots)
    Su-27, and an enemy MiG-29. If the flying ace had existed, they would have been the first recorded fighter ace of the 21st century. The Ukrainian Ministry...
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    German World War II jet aces has a sortable table of notable German jet ace pilots during World War II. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator...
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  • in late 2020. As with other games in the series, Ace Combat 6 places players in the role of a fighter pilot, tasked with destroying foes both in the air...
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  • composer Joe Hisaishi. The plot revolves around an Italian World War I ex-fighter ace, now living as a freelance bounty hunter chasing "air pirates" in the...
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    Paul Bäumer (category German World War I flying aces)
    German fighter ace in World War I. Bäumer died in an air crash at Copenhagen on 15 July 1927, age 31, while test flying a Rohrbach Ro IX fighter, Rohrbach's...
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