Name
|
Country
|
Service(s)
|
Aerial Victories
|
Other Aerial Victories
|
Notes
|
Erich Hartmann
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
352
|
|
Top ace of all time. First ever with 300 victories, achieved coincident with Double-ace in a day
|
Gerhard Barkhorn
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
301
|
|
|
Günther Rall
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
275
|
|
|
Otto Kittel †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
267
|
|
Top Focke-Wulf 190 ace
|
Walter Nowotny †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
258
|
|
Double-ace in a day on two different occasions. First to 250
|
Wilhelm Batz
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
237
|
|
|
Erich Rudorffer
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
222
|
|
Jet ace with 12 victories in Me 262, Double-ace in a day
|
Heinz Bär
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
220
|
|
Jet ace with 16 victories in Me 262 Credited with 21 heavy bombers shot down
|
Hermann Graf
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
212
|
|
First ever with 200 victories
|
Heinrich Ehrler †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
208
|
|
Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262
|
Theodor Weissenberger
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
208
|
|
Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262
|
Hans Philipp †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
206
|
|
|
Walter Schuck
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
206
|
|
Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262
|
Anton Hafner †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
204
|
|
|
Helmut Lipfert
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
203
|
|
|
Walter Krupinski
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
197
|
|
|
Anton Hackl
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
192
|
|
Credited with 34 heavy bombers shot down
|
Joachim Brendel
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
189
|
|
|
Max Stotz †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
189
|
|
|
Joachim Kirschner †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
188
|
|
|
Kurt Brändle †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
180
|
|
|
Günther Josten
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
178
|
|
|
Johannes Steinhoff
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
176
|
|
Jet ace with 6 victories in Me 262
|
Ernst-Wilhelm Reinert
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
174
|
|
|
Günther Schack
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
174
|
|
|
Heinz Schmidt †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
173
|
|
|
Emil Lang †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
173
|
|
Triple-ace in a day
|
Horst Ademeit †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
166
|
|
|
Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
162
|
|
|
Hans-Joachim Marseille †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
158
|
|
Top scoring ace outside the Eastern Front. Destroyed most Western Allied aircraft. Triple-ace in a day
|
Heinrich Sturm †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
158
|
|
|
Gerhard Thyben
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
157
|
|
|
Hans Beisswenger †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
152
|
|
|
Gordon Gollob
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
150
|
|
First ever with 150 victories
|
Peter Düttmann
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
150
|
|
|
Fritz Tegtmeier
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
146
|
|
|
Albin Wolf †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
144
|
|
|
Kurt Tanzer
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
143
|
|
|
Friedrich-Karl Müller †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
140
|
|
Credited with 23 heavy bombers shot down
|
Friedrich Wachowiak †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
140
|
|
|
Karl Gratz
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
138
|
|
|
Heinrich Setz †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
138
|
|
|
Rudolf Trenkel
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
138
|
|
|
Franz Schall †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
137
|
|
Jet ace with 14 victories in Me 262
|
Walter Wolfrum
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
137
|
|
Double-ace in a day on two different occasions
|
Adolf Dickfeld
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
136
|
|
|
Horst-Günther von Fassong †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
136
|
|
|
Otto Fönnekold †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
136
|
|
|
Karl-Heinz Weber †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
136
|
|
|
Joachim Müncheberg †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
135
|
|
|
Hans Waldmann †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
134
|
|
Ace in a day
|
Alfred Grislawski
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
133
|
|
|
Johannes Wiese
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
133
|
|
|
Adolf Borchers
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
132
|
|
|
Erwin Clausen †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
132
|
|
|
Wilhelm Lemke †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
131
|
|
|
Heinrich Sterr †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
130
|
|
|
Franz Eisenach
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
129
|
|
|
Walther Dahl
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
128
|
|
Credited with 30 heavy bombers shot down
|
Franz Dörr
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
128
|
|
|
Rudolf Rademacher
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
126
|
|
Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262
|
Josef Zwernemann †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
126
|
|
|
Gerhard Hoffmann †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
125
|
|
|
Dietrich Hrabak
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
125
|
|
|
Wolf-Udo Ettel †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
124
|
|
|
Herbert Ihlefeld
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
123
|
+9 in Spanish Civil War
|
Ace in each of two wars
|
Wolfgang Tonne †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
122
|
|
|
Heinz Marquardt
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
121
|
|
|
Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
121
|
|
Top night fighter ace. Ace in a day
|
Robert Weiß †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
121
|
|
|
Friedrich Obleser
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
120
|
|
|
Erich Leie †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
118
|
|
|
Franz-Josef Beerenbrock
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
117
|
|
|
Hans-Joachim Birkner †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
117
|
|
|
Jakob Norz †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
117
|
|
|
Walter Oesau †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
117
|
+9 in Spanish Civil War
|
|
Heinz Wernicke †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
117
|
|
|
August Lambert †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
116
|
|
Triple-ace in a day
|
Wilhelm Crinius
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
114
|
|
|
Werner Schröer
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
114
|
|
Credited with 26 heavy bombers shot down
|
Hans Dammers †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
113
|
|
|
Berthold Korts †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
113
|
|
|
Kurt Bühligen
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
112
|
|
Credited with 24 heavy bombers shot down
|
Kurt Ubben †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
111
|
|
|
Helmut Lent †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
110
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Franz Woidich
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
110
|
|
|
Emil Bitsch †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
108
|
|
|
Hans Hahn
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
108
|
|
|
Bernhard Vechtel
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
108
|
|
|
Viktor Bauer
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
106
|
|
|
Werner Lucas †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
106
|
|
|
Günther Lützow †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
105
|
+5 in Spanish Civil War
|
|
Adolf Galland
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
104
|
|
Jet ace with 7 victories in Me 262
|
Heinz Sachsenberg
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
104
|
|
|
Hartmann Grasser
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
103
|
|
|
Siegfried Freytag
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
102
|
|
|
Friedrich Geisshardt †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
102
|
|
|
Egon Mayer †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
102
|
|
Credited with 26 heavy bombers shot down
|
Max-Hellmuth Ostermann †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
102
|
|
|
Josef Wurmheller †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
102
|
|
|
Werner Mölders †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
101
|
+14 in Spanish Civil War
|
Ace in each of two wars, first in aviation history with 100 victories
|
Rudolf Miethig †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
101
|
|
|
Josef Priller
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
101
|
|
|
Ulrich Wernitz
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
101
|
|
|
Reinhard Seiler
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
100
|
+9 in Spanish Civil War
|
|
Paul-Heinrich Dähne †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
100
|
|
|
Leopold Steinbatz
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
99
|
|
|
Wolfgang Späte
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
99
|
|
Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262
|
Heinrich Bartels †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
99
|
|
|
Horst Hannig †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
98
|
|
|
Gustav Rödel
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
98
|
|
|
Helmut Rüffler
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
98
|
|
|
Hans Schleef †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
98
|
|
|
Helmut Mertens
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
97
|
|
|
Hermann Schleinhege
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
97
|
|
|
Diethelm von Eichel-Streiber
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
96
|
|
|
Heinrich Höfemeier †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
96
|
|
|
Siegfried Lemke
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
96
|
|
|
Leopold Münster †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
95
|
|
|
Ilmari Juutilainen
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
94
|
|
Top non-German ace. Claimed 126 victories. Ace in a day. Victories were against the Soviet Union.
|
Rudolf Müller †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
94
|
possibly 101
|
|
Anton Döbele †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
94
|
|
|
Heinrich Klöpper †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
94
|
|
|
Rudolf Resch †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
93
|
+1 in Spanish Civil War
|
|
Edmund Roßmann
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
93
|
|
|
Siegfried Schnell †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
93
|
|
|
Helmut Bennemann
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
93
|
|
|
Gerhard Loos †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
92
|
|
|
Oskar Romm
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
92
|
|
|
Anton Resch
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
91
|
|
|
Eberhard von Boremski
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
90
|
possibly 104
|
|
Heinz Kemethmüller
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
89
|
|
|
Georg Schentke †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
87
|
possibly 90
|
|
Josef Jennewein †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
86
|
|
|
Anton Mader
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
86
|
|
|
Ulrich Wöhnert
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
86
|
|
|
Gerhard Köppen †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
85
|
|
|
Walter Zellot †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
85
|
|
|
Heinz Ewald
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
84
|
|
|
Peter Kalden
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
84
|
|
|
Werner Quast
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
84
|
|
|
Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
83
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Otto Weßling †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
83
|
|
|
Walter Ohlrogge
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
83
|
|
|
Franz Beyer †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
83
|
|
|
Hans Grünberg
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
82
|
|
Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262
|
Emil Darjes
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
82
|
|
|
Hans Götz †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
82
|
|
|
Helmut Missner
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
82
|
|
|
Max-Hermann Lücke †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
81
|
|
|
Hugo Broch
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
81
|
|
|
Willi Nemitz †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
81
|
|
|
Wilhelm Philipp
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
81
|
|
|
Rudolf Wagner
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
81
|
|
|
Tetsuzō Iwamoto
|
Japan
|
Imperial Japanese Navy
|
80
|
+14 in Second Sino-Japanese War
|
Ace in each of two wars, analysis in 1971 suggests up to 87 WWII confirmed, his diary claimed 202 victories
|
Herbert Bachnick †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
80
|
|
|
Otto Würfel
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
79
|
|
|
Georg-Peter Eder
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
78
|
|
Jet ace with 12 victories in Me 262 Credited with 36 heavy bombers shot down
|
Wolfgang Ewald
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
78
|
|
|
Heinrich Krafft †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
78
|
|
|
Karl-Gottfried Nordmann
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
78
|
|
|
Alexander Preinfalk †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
78
|
|
|
Josef Haiböck
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
77
|
|
|
Johann-Hermann Meier †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
77
|
|
|
Hans-Joachim Kroschinski
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
76
|
|
|
Maximilian Mayerl
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
76
|
|
|
Alfred Teumer †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
76
|
|
|
Edwin Thiel †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
76
|
|
|
Hans Wind
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
75
|
|
|
Johannes Bunzek †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
75
|
|
|
Helmut Grollmus
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
75
|
|
|
Johann Pichler
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
75
|
|
|
Hans Röhrig †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
75
|
|
|
Joachim Wandel †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
75
|
|
|
Gustav Frielinghaus
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
74
|
|
|
Otto Gaiser †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
74
|
|
|
Friedrich Haas
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
74
|
|
|
Hubertus von Bonin †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
73
|
+4 in Spanish Civil War
|
|
Anton Lindner
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
73
|
|
|
Gerhard Michalski
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
73
|
|
|
Otto Schultz
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
73
|
|
|
Wilhelm Herget
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
72
|
|
|
Shigeo Fukumoto
|
Japan
|
Imperial Japanese Navy
|
72
|
|
|
Klaus Mietusch †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
72
|
|
|
Wilhelm Mink †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
72
|
|
|
Karl-Heinz Schnell
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
72
|
|
|
Hans Fuß †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
71
|
|
|
Adolf Glunz
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
71
|
|
|
Alfred Heckmann
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
71
|
|
|
Herbert Rollwage
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
71
|
|
|
Günther Scheel †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
71
|
|
highest kill-to-mission ratio
|
Shoichi Sugita
|
Japan
|
Imperial Japanese Navy
|
70
|
|
+40 shared
|
Karl Hoffmann
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
70
|
|
|
Hermann-Friedrich Joppien †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
70
|
|
|
Heinz Lange
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
70
|
|
|
Rudi Linz †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
70
|
|
|
Emil Omert †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
70
|
|
|
Armin Köhler
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
69
|
|
|
Ernst Weismann
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
69
|
|
|
Eugen-Ludwig Zweigart †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
69
|
|
|
Constantin Cantacuzino
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
69
|
+8 unconfirmed
|
Top Romanian ace
|
Kurt Dombacher
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
68
|
|
|
Walter Höckner
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
68
|
|
|
Herbert Huppertz †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
68
|
|
|
Heinrich Jung
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
68
|
|
|
Herbert Kaiser
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
68
|
|
|
Richard Leppla
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
68
|
|
|
Fritz Losigkeit
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
68
|
|
|
Günther Freiherr von Maltzahn
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
68
|
|
|
Hans Strelow †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
68
|
|
|
Ernst Süß †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
68
|
|
|
Otto Tange †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
68
|
|
|
Karl Hammerl
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
68
|
|
|
Gustav Denk †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
67
|
|
|
Fritz Dinger †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
67
|
|
|
Herbert Findeisen
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
67
|
|
|
Reinhold Hoffmann †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
67
|
|
|
Erbo Graf von Kageneck †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
67
|
|
|
Franz Schieß †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
67
|
|
|
Franz Schwaiger †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
67
|
|
|
Hubert Strassl †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
67
|
|
Triple-ace in a day
|
Erwin Fleig
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
66
|
|
|
Werner Streib
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
66
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Ivan Kozhedub
|
Soviet Union
|
Soviet Air Force
|
66
|
|
Top Allied ace in WWII
|
Heinrich Füllgrabe †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
65
|
|
|
Waldemar Semelka †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
65
|
|
|
Berthold Graßmuck †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
65
|
|
|
Karl Kempf †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
65
|
|
|
Manfred Meurer †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
65
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Günther Radusch
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
65
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Karl Fuchs
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
64
|
|
|
Bernd Gallowitsch
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
64
|
|
|
Jürgen Harder †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
64
|
|
|
Rolf Hermichen
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
64
|
|
Credited with 26 heavy bombers shot down
|
Walter Lindner
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
64
|
|
|
Viktor Petermann
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
64
|
|
|
Heinz Rökker
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
64
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Rudolf Schoenert
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
64
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Franz Götz
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
63
|
|
|
Heinrich Hoffmann †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
63
|
|
|
Gerhard Homuth †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
63
|
|
|
Wilhelm Schilling
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
63
|
|
|
Hermann Staiger
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
63
|
|
Credited with 26 heavy bombers shot down
|
Heino Cordes
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
62
|
|
|
Wilhelm Hübner
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
62
|
|
|
Helmut Neumann
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
62
|
|
|
Horst Haase
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
62
|
possibly 82
|
|
Karl-Heinz Meltzer †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
61
|
|
|
Gerhard Beutin
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
60
|
|
|
Hans-Ekkehard Bob
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
60
|
|
|
Horst Carganico †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
60
|
|
|
Franz Czech
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
60
|
|
|
Franz Hrdlicka †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
60
|
possibly 96
|
|
Kurt Kelter
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
60
|
|
|
August Mors †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
60
|
|
|
Karl Munz
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
60
|
|
|
Alfred Rauch
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
60
|
|
|
Nikolay Dmitrievich Gulayev
|
Soviet Union
|
Soviet Air Force
|
60
|
|
|
Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin
|
Soviet Union
|
Soviet Air Force
|
59
|
+8 prior to Soviets officially in WWII
|
|
Hans-Arnold Stahlschmidt †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
59
|
|
|
Alfred Franke †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
59
|
|
|
Franz Eckerle †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
59
|
|
|
Karl Steffen
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
59
|
|
|
Paul Zorner
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
59
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Siegfried Engfer
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
59
|
|
|
Hermann Buchner
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
58
|
|
Jet ace with 12 victories in Me 262
|
Martin Becker
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
58
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Herbert Broennle †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
58
|
|
|
Herbert Friebel
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
58
|
|
|
Wilhelm Freuwörth
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
58
|
|
|
Gerhard Raht
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
58
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Hiromichi Shinohara †
|
Japan
|
Imperial Japanese Army
|
58
|
|
|
Grigoriy Andreevich Rechkalov
|
Soviet Union
|
Soviet Air Force
|
58
|
|
|
Gabriel Tautscher
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
58
|
|
|
Lutz-Wilhelm Burckhardt
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
57+
|
|
|
Heinrich-Wilhelm Ahnert †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
57
|
|
|
Konrad Bauer
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
57
|
|
Credited with 32 heavy bombers shot down
|
Kurt Ebener
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
57
|
|
|
Johannes Seifert †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
57
|
|
|
Hermann Wolf
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
57
|
|
|
Edmund Wagner †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
57
|
|
|
Gustav Francsi
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
56
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Heinz Hackler †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
56
|
|
|
Erich Hohagen
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
56
|
|
|
Helmuth Holtz
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
56
|
|
|
Eduard Isken
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
56
|
|
|
Kurt Knappe †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
56
|
|
|
Josef Kraft
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
56
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Helmut Schönfelder
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
56
|
|
|
Günther Seeger
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
56
|
|
|
Heinz Strüning †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
56
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Helmut Wick †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
56
|
|
|
Eino Luukkanen
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
56
|
|
|
Karl-Heinz Bendert
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
55
|
|
|
Wilhelm-Ferdinand Galland †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
55
|
|
|
Herbert Bareuther †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
55
|
|
|
Hans-Dieter Frank
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
55
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Hans Ehlers †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
55
|
|
Credited with 24 heavy bombers shot down
|
Herbert Puschmann †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
54
|
|
|
Takeo Okumura †
|
Japan
|
Imperial Japanese Navy
|
54
|
|
|
Johann Badum †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
54
|
|
|
Heinz Leber †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
54
|
|
|
Siegfried Simsch †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
54
|
|
|
Heinz Vinke †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
54
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Hannes Trautloft
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
53
|
+5 in Spanish Civil War
|
|
August Geiger †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
53
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Kirill A. Yevstigneyev
|
Soviet Union
|
Soviet Air Force
|
53
|
|
|
Albert Brunner †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
53
|
|
|
Hans-Joachim Heyer †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
53
|
|
|
Willy Kientsch †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
53
|
|
|
Carl Sattig
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
53
|
|
|
Julius Meimberg
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
53
|
|
|
Herbert Lütje
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
53
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Franz Barten †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
52
|
|
|
Heinz-Edgar Berres †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
52
|
|
|
Martin Drewes
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
52
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Alfred Gross
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
52
|
|
|
Ludwig Häfner †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
52
|
|
|
Rudolf Pflanz †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
52
|
|
|
Friedrich Rupp †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
52
|
|
|
Werner Hoffmann
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
52
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Heinrich Wefers
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
51
|
|
|
Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
51
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Fritz Lüddecke †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
51
|
|
|
Otto Schulz †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
51
|
|
|
Kurt Welter
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
50+
|
|
Jet ace with 20+ claimed in Me 262; 56 as night fighter; possibly all time jet ace
|
Wilhelm Hauswirth
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
50
|
|
|
Hermann Greiner
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
50
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Dmitry Glinka
|
Soviet Union
|
Soviet Air Force
|
50
|
|
|
Hans-Joachim Jabs
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
50
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Emil Knittel
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
50
|
|
|
Frank Liesendahl
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
50
|
|
|
Karl Willius †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
50
|
|
|
Rudolf Ehrenberger †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
49
|
|
|
Reinhard Kollak
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
49
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Klaus Quaet-Faslem †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
49
|
|
|
Walter Borchers †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
48+
|
possibly 59
|
Night fighter ace
|
Heinz Arnold †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
48
|
|
Jet ace with 7 victories in Me 262
|
Friedrich Beckh †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
48
|
|
|
Paul Gildner †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
48
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Johannes Hager
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
48
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Werner Stumpf †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
48
|
|
|
Heinz-Gerhard Vogt †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
48
|
|
|
Günter Fink †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
48
|
|
|
Fritz Karch
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
47
|
|
|
Ernst-Georg Drünkler
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
47
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Heinz Golinski †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
47
|
|
|
Eckhard Hübner †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
47
|
|
|
Herbert Kutscha
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
47
|
|
|
Erich Schmidt †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
47
|
|
|
Alexandru Şerbănescu †
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
47
|
|
|
Arseniy Vasilievich Vorozheikin
|
Soviet Union
|
Soviet Air Force
|
46
|
+6 in Battles of Khalkhin Gol
|
Ace in each of two wars (though Khalkhin Gol was undeclared)
|
Aleksandr Ivanovich Koldunov
|
Soviet Union
|
Soviet Air Force
|
46
|
|
|
Nikolay Mikhailovich Skomorohov
|
Soviet Union
|
Soviet Air Force
|
46
|
|
|
Hans-Heinz Augenstein
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
46
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Ludwig Becker †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
46
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Wolfgang Böwing-Treuding †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
46
|
|
|
Erwin Laskowski
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
46
|
|
|
Karl Rammelt
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
46
|
|
|
Franz Schulte
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
46
|
|
|
Paul Semrau †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
46
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Karl Schnörrer
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
45
|
|
Jet ace with 11 victories in Me 262
|
Georg Seidel
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
45
|
|
|
Alfred Surau
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
45
|
|
|
Kurt Tangermann
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
45
|
|
|
Ernst Düllberg
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
45
|
|
|
Rudolf Frank †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
45
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Hugo Dahmer
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
45
|
|
|
Gerhard Schöpfel
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
45
|
|
|
Otto Vinzent
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
45
|
|
|
Ion Milu
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
45
|
|
|
Urho Lehtovaara
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
44.5
|
|
|
Manfred Eberwein
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
44+
|
|
|
Mato Dukovac
|
Croatia
|
Croatian Air Force
|
44
|
|
Top Croatian ace
|
Oiva Tuominen
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
44
|
|
|
Hans Frese
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
44
|
|
|
Karl-Wilhelm Hofmann †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
44
|
|
|
Reinhold Knacke †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
44
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Wilhelm Steinmann
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
44
|
|
|
Walther Wever †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
44
|
|
|
Vladimir Bobrov (pilot)
|
Soviet Union
|
Soviet Air Force
|
43
|
|
|
Karl Borris
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
43
|
|
|
Ludwig Franzisket
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
43
|
|
|
Hubert Mütherich
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
43
|
|
|
Josef Pöhs †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
43
|
|
|
Daniel Vizanty
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
43
|
|
|
Walter Brandt
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
42
|
|
|
Olli Puhakka
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
42
|
|
|
Norbert Hannig
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
42
|
|
|
Jürgen Brocke †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
42
|
|
|
Tudor Greceanu
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
42
|
|
|
Rudolf Schmidt
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
42
|
|
|
Herbert Schramm †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
42
|
|
|
Robert Olejnik
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
42
|
|
|
Richard Quante †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
41
|
|
|
Werner Baake
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
41
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Leopold Fellerer
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
41
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Ludwig Meister
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
41
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Ernst Börngen
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
41
|
|
|
Mikhail Pivovarov
|
Soviet Union
|
Soviet Air Force
|
41
|
|
|
Marmaduke 'Pat' Pattle †
|
South Africa
|
Royal Air Force
|
41
|
|
Top British Commonwealth and South African ace, possibly 50+ victories. He scored all his victories on the Gloster Gladiator and the Hawker Hurricane and is the top ace of both aircraft.
|
Wilhelm Balthasar †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
40
|
+7 in Spanish Civil War
|
Ace in each of two wars (+13 ground kills WWII)
|
Richard I. Bong †
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
40
|
|
Top U.S. ace
|
Wolf-Dietrich Huy
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
40
|
|
|
Hermann Neuhoff
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
40
|
|
|
Günter Steinhausen †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
40
|
|
|
Eckart-Wilhelm von Bonin
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
39
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Dietrich Schmidt
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
39
|
possibly 43
|
Night fighter ace
|
Satoru Anabuki
|
Japan
|
Imperial Japanese Army
|
39
|
|
51 claimed
|
Iyozo Fujita
|
Japan
|
Imperial Japanese Navy
|
39
|
|
|
Eckart-Wilhelm von Bonin
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
39
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Hans Dortenmann
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
38
|
|
|
Peter Bremer
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
38
|
|
|
James Edgar "Johnnie" Johnson
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
38
|
|
Top Spitfire Ace.
|
Cvitan Galić †
|
Croatia
|
Croatian Air Force
|
38
|
|
|
Detlev Rohwer †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
38
|
|
|
Eduard Tratt †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
38
|
|
|
Thomas B. McGuire †
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
38
|
|
|
Günther Bahr
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
39
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Ivan Babak
|
Soviet Union
|
Soviet Air Force
|
37
|
|
|
Klaus Neumann
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
37
|
|
Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262
|
Heinz Bretnütz
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
37
|
|
|
Waldemar Radener
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
37
|
|
|
Sergey Luganski
|
Soviet Union
|
Soviet Air Force
|
37
|
|
|
Wilhelm Beier
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
36
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Helmut Bergmann †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
36
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Walter Ehle †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
36
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Friedrich Körner
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
36
|
|
|
Vladimir Lavrinenkov
|
Soviet Union
|
Soviet Air Force
|
36
|
|
|
Maximilian Volke †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
36
|
|
|
Hiroyoshi Nishizawa †
|
Japan
|
Imperial Japanese Navy
|
36
|
|
Claimed 86 and up to 100-150 victories
|
Olavi Puro
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
36
|
|
|
Nils Katajainen
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
35.5
|
|
|
Heinz-Horst Hißbach †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
34
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Wilhelm Johnen
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
34
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Klaus Bretschneider
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
34
|
|
incl. 14 as Night fighter ace
|
Petr Hnido
|
Soviet Union
|
Soviet Air Force
|
34
|
|
|
David McCampbell
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
34
|
|
Top U.S. Navy ace, Ace in a day on two different occasions
|
Toshio Ota †
|
Japan
|
Imperial Japanese Navy
|
34
|
|
|
Heinz-Martin Hadeball
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
33
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Josef Kociok †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
33
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Heinz Knoke
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
33
|
|
|
Ernst-Wilhelm Modrow
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
33
|
possibly 34
|
Night fighter ace
|
Ivan Stepanenko
|
Soviet Union
|
Soviet Air Force
|
33
|
|
|
Pierre Clostermann
|
France
|
Free French Air Force, Royal Air Force
|
33
|
|
Top French ace
|
Erich Brunotte
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
33
|
|
|
Günther Bleckmann †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
33
|
|
|
Lauri Nissinen †
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
32.5
|
|
|
Werner Husemann
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
32
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Ján Režňák
|
Slovak Republic
|
Slovak Air Force
|
32
|
|
Top Slovak ace, possibly 35 victories
|
Kyösti Karhila
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
32
|
|
|
Hugo Frey †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
32
|
|
Credited with 25 heavy bombers shot down
|
Kazuo Sugino
|
Japan
|
Imperial Japanese Navy
|
32
|
|
|
Adolph 'Sailor' Malan
|
South Africa
|
Royal Air Force
|
32
|
|
|
George F. "Buzz" Beurling
|
Canada
|
Royal Air Force
|
31.5
|
|
Top Canadian ace of WWII
|
Hans-Karl Mayer †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
31
|
+8 in Spanish Civil War
|
Ace in each of two wars
|
Paul-Hubert Rauh
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
31
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Karl-Heinz Scherfling †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
31+
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Alexandr Kumanichkin
|
Soviet Union
|
Soviet Air Force
|
31
|
|
|
Jorma Karhunen
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
31
|
|
|
Dezső Szentgyörgyi
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
30.5
|
|
Top Hungarian ace
|
Amet-khan Sultan
|
Soviet Union
|
Soviet Air Force
|
30
|
|
+19 shared
|
Gerhard Friedrich †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
30
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Paul Brandt
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
30
|
|
|
Karl-Heinz Langer
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
30
|
|
|
Robert Roland Stanford Tuck
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
30
|
|
|
William Vale
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
30
|
|
+6 shared
|
Franz Blazytko
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
30
|
|
|
Erich Bartz
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
30
|
|
|
Friedrich-Karl "Nasen" Müller
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
30
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Kaneyoshi Mutoh †
|
Japan
|
Imperial Japanese Navy
|
30
|
|
|
Ryotaro Jobou
|
Japan
|
Imperial Japanese Army
|
30
|
|
|
Emil Vesa
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
29.5
|
|
|
Paul Szameitat †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
29
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Günther Bertram
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
29
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Heinrich Wohlers †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
29
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Bob Braham
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
29
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Clive Caldwell
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
28.5
|
|
Top Australian ace of WWII. Top P-40 ace. Ace in a day.
|
Tapio Järvi
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
28.5
|
|
|
Izidor Kovárik
|
Slovak Republic
|
Slovak Air Force
|
28
|
possibly 29
|
|
Anton Benning †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
28
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Max Bucholz
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
28
|
|
Ace in a day
|
Ernst Andres †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
28
|
|
|
Anton Benning
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
28
|
|
|
Hans-Heinrich Koenig †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
28
|
|
|
Yasuhiko Kuroe
|
Japan
|
Imperial Japanese Army
|
28
|
+2 in Actions in Mongolia
|
51 claimed
|
"Paddy" Finucane †
|
Ireland
|
Royal Air Force
|
28
|
|
Top Irish ace
|
"Ginger" Lacey
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
28
|
|
|
Francis "Gabby" Gabreski
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
28
|
+6.5 in Korean War
|
Ace in each of two wars (+2.5 ground kills WWII)
|
Gregory "Pappy" Boyington
|
United States
|
American Volunteer Group; U.S. Marine Corps
|
28
|
|
Ace status on 2 different air forces. Includes six kills he claimed with the AVG, though records indicate he had only 2 aerial kills and 1.5 kills on the ground.
|
Saburō Sakai
|
Japan
|
Imperial Japanese Navy
|
28
|
|
Includes unknown number of shared. Claims 64 total victories.
|
Willi Reschke
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
28
|
|
Credited with 20 heavy bombers shot down
|
Colin Falkland Gray
|
New Zealand
|
Royal Air Force
|
27.5
|
|
Top New Zealand ace
|
Rudolf Busch
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
27+
|
|
|
Heinz Beyer
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
27
|
|
|
Alfred Burk
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
27
|
|
|
Neville Duke
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
27
|
|
|
Wilhelm Mayer †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
27
|
|
|
Lothar Linke †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
27
|
|
|
Constantin Rozariu
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
27
|
|
|
Robert S. Johnson
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
27
|
|
|
Charles H. MacDonald
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
27
|
|
|
Junichi Sasai †
|
Japan
|
Imperial Japanese Navy
|
27
|
|
|
Sadaaki Akamatsu
|
Japan
|
Imperial Japanese Navy
|
27
|
|
|
George E. Preddy, Jr. †
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
26.83
|
|
Ace in a day (+5 ground kills)
|
Eric Lock †
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
26.5
|
|
|
Emil Clade
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
26
|
|
|
Franz Stigler
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
26
|
|
|
Klaus Alakoski
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
26
|
|
|
Nobuo Ogiya
|
Japan
|
Imperial Japanese Navy
|
26
|
|
|
Ján Gerthoffer
|
Slovak Republic
|
Slovak Air Force
|
26
|
|
|
Joseph J. Foss
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
26
|
|
Top ace under USMC-only service
|
Lev Shestakov †
|
Soviet Union
|
Soviet Air Force
|
65
|
+39 in Spanish Civil War
|
Ace in each of two wars
|
György Debrődy
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
26
|
|
|
Lajos Tóth (fighter pilot)
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
26
|
|
|
Russell Bannock
|
Canada
|
Royal Canadian Air Force
|
25.5
|
|
includes 19 V-1 flying bombs
|
Egon Albrecht-Lemke †
|
Germany/ Brazil
|
Luftwaffe
|
25
|
|
|
Lance C. Wade †
|
United States
|
Royal Air Force
|
25[138]
|
|
Top US ace in RAF
|
Ludwig Bellof
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
25
|
|
|
Wolfgang Lippert †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
25
|
+5 in Spanish Civil War
|
Ace in each of two wars
|
Robert M. Hanson †
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
25
|
|
|
Boris Safonov †
|
Soviet Union
|
Soviet Naval Aviation
|
25
|
|
+14 shared
|
Naoshi Kanno
|
Japan
|
Imperial Japanese Navy
|
25
|
|
|
László Molnár †
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
25
|
|
|
Frank Reginald Carey
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
25
|
|
|
Josef Fözö
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
24
|
+3 in Spanish Civil War
|
|
John C. Meyer
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
24
|
+2 in Korean War
|
(+13 ground kills)
|
Walter Adolph †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
24
|
+1 in Spanish Civil War
|
|
Willy Unger
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
24
|
|
Credited with 21 heavy bombers shot down
|
Karl-Heinz Krahl †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
24
|
|
|
Cecil E. Harris
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
24
|
|
|
Johannes Le Roux
|
South Africa
|
Royal Air Force
|
23.5
|
|
Generally credited with attacking & wounding Erwin Rommel in his staff car in Normandy on 17 July 1944
|
Horst Patuschka †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
23
|
|
|
Peter Spoden
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
23
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Fritz Müller
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
23
|
|
Jet ace with 6 victories in Me 262
|
Erich Woitke †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
23
|
+4 in Spanish Civil War
|
|
Fred Ohr
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Corps
|
23
|
|
Top Korean-American ace, +17 Ground kills
|
Marcel Albert
|
France
|
Free French Air Force
|
23
|
|
Probably 2 more
|
Douglas Bader
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
23
|
|
All 23 kills scored after losing both legs in a 1931 aircraft crash
|
Eugene A. Valencia
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
23
|
|
|
Kalevi Tervo
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
23
|
|
|
Jorma Saarinen
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
23
|
|
|
Eero Kinnunen
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
22.5
|
|
|
David C. Schilling
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
22.5
|
|
(+10.5 ground kills)
|
Rolf Pingel
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
22
|
+6 Spanish Civil War
|
Ace in each of two wars
|
Teresio Vittorio Martinoli †
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
22
|
|
Top Italian ace of WWII; +14 shared
|
Leonardo Ferrulli †
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
22
|
|
|
Artur Beese †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
22
|
|
|
Edward F. Charles
|
Canada
|
Royal Canadian Air Force
|
22
|
|
|
Alan Christopher Deere
|
New Zealand
|
Royal Air Force
|
22
|
|
|
Gerald R. Johnson
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
22
|
|
|
Neel E. Kearby †
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
22
|
|
|
Jay T. Robbins
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
22
|
|
|
Ion Mucenica
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
22
|
|
|
Dominic S. Gentile
|
United States
|
Royal Air Force; U.S. Army Air Forces
|
21.83
|
|
victories with 2 air forces (+7 ground kills)
|
Rolf Kaldrack †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
21+
|
+3 in Spanish Civil War
|
|
Donald Kingaby
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
21
|
|
+2 shared
|
Antti Tani
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
21.5
|
|
|
William V. Crawford-Crompton
|
New Zealand
|
Royal Air Force
|
21.5
|
|
|
Raymond Brown Hesselyn
|
New Zealand
|
Royal New Zealand Air Force
|
21.5
|
|
|
Fred J. Christensen
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
21.5
|
|
|
Ray S. Wetmore
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
21¼
|
|
(+2 ground kills)
|
Branse Burbridge
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
21
|
|
Top RAF night fighter ace
|
Archie McKellar †
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
21
|
|
Ace in a day
|
Jean Demozay
|
France
|
Royal Air Force
|
21
|
|
|
Franco Lucchini †
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
21
|
+6 in Spanish Civil War
|
Ace in each of two wars (+52 shared WWII)
|
Franz von Werra †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
21
|
|
|
John J. Voll
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
21
|
|
|
Kenneth A. Walsh
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
21
|
|
|
Paavo Myllylä
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
21
|
|
|
Walker 'Bud' Melville Mahurin
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
20.75
|
+3.5 in Korean War
|
|
Helmut Baudach
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
20+
|
|
Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262
|
Donald N. Aldrich
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
20
|
|
|
Rudolf Artner
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
20
|
|
|
Hans Berschwinger
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
20
|
|
|
Helmut-Felix Bolz
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
20
|
+3 in Spanish Civil War
|
|
Ernst Richter
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
20
|
|
12 claimed at the Eastern front and 8 at the Western front
|
Cristea Chirvasuta
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
20
|
|
|
Michael Crossley
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
20
|
|
|
Thomas J. Lynch †
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
20
|
|
|
Evan Mackie
|
New Zealand
|
Royal New Zealand Air Force
|
20
|
|
+3 shared
|
Henry Wallace McLeod †
|
Canada
|
Royal Canadian Air Force
|
20
|
|
|
Gerhard Sommer †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
20
|
|
|
Robert B. Westbrook †
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
20
|
|
|
Vernon Crompton Woodward
|
Canada
|
Royal Air Force
|
20
|
|
|
Viktor Pyötsiä
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
19.5
|
|
|
Väinö Suhonen
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
19.5
|
|
|
Winfried Schmidt
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
19
|
|
|
Geoffrey Allard
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
19
|
|
+5 shared
|
Paul Becker
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
19
|
|
|
Erhard Peters †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
19
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Adolf Kalkum
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
19
|
|
|
Franco Bordoni
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
19
|
|
5 victories with biplane; +18 shared
|
Mark Henry Brown †
|
Canada
|
Royal Air Force
|
19
|
|
First Canadian ace of WWII
|
Roy Dutton
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
19
|
|
|
W. G. G. Duncan Smith
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
19
|
|
DSO*, DFC**
|
Luigi Gorrini
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
19
|
|
1 victory with biplane, 24 victories claimed
|
John "Cat's Eyes" Cunningham
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
19
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Glenn E. Duncan
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
19
|
|
(+7.8 ground kills)
|
James Francis Edwards
|
Canada
|
Royal Canadian Air Force
|
19
|
|
|
Patrick D. Fleming
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
19
|
|
|
Cornelius N. Nooy
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
19
|
|
|
John Lucian Smith
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
19
|
|
|
Alexander Vraciu
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
19
|
|
|
Erik Teromaa
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
19
|
|
|
Constantin Lungulescu
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
19
|
|
|
Stanisław Skalski
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
18.91
|
|
Top Polish ace, first Allied ace of the WW2
|
Arthur J. Benko
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
18.5
|
|
highest scoring American aerial gunner of the WW2
|
Marion E. Carl
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
18.5
|
|
|
Lauri Pekuri
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
18.5
|
|
|
Leonard K. Carson
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
18.5
|
|
(+3.5 ground kills)
|
Glenn Eagleston
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
18.5
|
+2 in Korean War
|
(+5 ground kills)
|
Wilbur J. Thomas
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
18.5
|
|
|
Yukiyoshi Wakamatsu
|
Japan
|
Imperial Japanese Army
|
18+
|
|
|
Motomitsu Aoki †
|
Japan
|
Imperial Japanese Army
|
18
|
|
Korean pilot during the Japanese occupation era. Up to 23 claimed. KIA during the Korean War as Brig. Gen. Geun-Seok Lee of the ROK Air Force
|
Tateo Katō
|
Japan
|
Imperial Japanese Army
|
18
|
|
up to 30 claimed
|
Karel Kuttelwascher
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
18
|
|
possibly 20
|
Harry von Bülow-Bothkamp
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
18
|
+6 in World War I
|
Ace in each of two wars
|
Witold Urbanowicz
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
18
|
|
|
Walter C. Beckham
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
18
|
|
|
Herschel H. Green
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
18
|
|
|
John C. "Pappy" Herbst
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
18
|
|
|
Albert Gerald Lewis
|
South Africa
|
Royal Air Force
|
18
|
|
Ace in a day
|
Miklós Kenyeres
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
18
|
|
|
Charles H. Older
|
United States
|
American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces
|
18
|
|
Ace status on 2 different air forces
|
Takeo Tanimizu
|
Japan
|
Imperial Japanese Navy
|
18
|
|
|
Pierre Le Gloan †
|
France
|
French Air Force
|
18
|
|
Ace in a day
|
Hubert Zemke
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
17.75
|
|
|
John B. England
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
17.5
|
|
|
Duane W. Beeson
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
17⅓
|
|
(+4.8 ground kills)
|
Jouko Huotari
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
17.5
|
|
|
John F. Thornell
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
17¼
|
|
(+2 ground kills)
|
Henry W. Brown
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
17.2
|
|
(+14.5 ground kills)
|
Theodor Rossiwall
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
17
|
+2 Spanish Civil War
|
|
Rudolf Božík
|
Slovak Republic
|
Slovak Air Force
|
17
|
|
|
Ugo Drago
|
Italy/ Italian Social Republic
|
Regia Aeronautica, Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana
|
17
|
|
|
Edgar Kain †
|
New Zealand
|
Royal Air Force
|
17
|
|
First RAF fighter ace of WWII
|
William "Willie" McKnight
|
Canada
|
Royal Air Force
|
17
|
|
|
Josef Frantisek
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
17
|
|
|
Jorma Sarvanto
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
17
|
|
Ace in a day (four minutes)
|
Yrjö Turkka
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
17
|
|
|
Gerald W. Johnson
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
17
|
|
|
James S. Varnell Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
17
|
|
|
Bolesław Gładych
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/French Air Force/Royal Air Force/U.S. Army Air Forces
|
17
|
|
victories with 3 air forces
|
Keith Truscott
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
17
|
|
|
Petrus Hugo
|
South Africa
|
Royal Air Force
|
17
|
|
|
Stanley Orr
|
United Kingdom
|
Fleet Air Arm
|
17
|
|
|
Paul Galland †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
17
|
|
|
Tony Lovell
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
16
|
|
+6 shared (+1 ground kill)
|
Eugeniusz Horbaczewski
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
16.5
|
|
|
William T. Klersey †
|
Canada
|
Royal Canadian Air Force
|
16.5
|
|
(+2 ground kills)
|
Aulis Lumme
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
16.5
|
|
|
James MacLachlan
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
16.5
|
|
7.5 after the amputation of his left arm
|
Eero Riihikallio
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
16.5
|
|
|
Nigel Cullen
|
Australia
|
Royal Air Force
|
16.5
|
|
|
John T. Godfrey
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
16⅓
|
|
(+18 ground kills)
|
Adrian Goldsmith
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
16¼
|
|
|
Clarence E. Anderson
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
16¼
|
|
Highest scoring living American air ace. (+1 ground kill)
|
Les Clisby
|
Australia
|
Royal Air Force
|
16
|
|
|
Franjo Dzal
|
Croatia
|
Croatian Air Force
|
16
|
|
|
Douglas Baker †
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
16
|
|
|
Eero Halonen
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
16
|
|
|
Bill Harris
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
16
|
|
|
Buck McNair
|
Canada
|
Royal Canadian Air Force
|
16
|
|
|
John Plagis
|
Rhodesia
|
Royal Air Force
|
16
|
|
Top Rhodesian ace
|
Ioan Dicezare
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
16
|
|
|
Ira C. Kepford
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
16
|
|
|
Charles R. Stimpson
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
16
|
|
|
Stan Turner
|
Canada
|
Royal Canadian Air Force
|
16
|
|
|
William T. Whisner, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
16
|
+5.5 in Korean War
|
Ace in each of two wars (+3.5 ground kills WWII)
|
George Welch
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
16
|
|
|
Edmond Marin la Meslée †
|
France
|
French Air Force
|
16
|
|
|
Mario Visintini
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
16
|
+1 in Spanish Civil War
|
Top Biplane ace of WWII (+32 ground kills)
|
Vasile Gavriliu
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
16
|
|
|
Ernest Mason
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
15+
|
|
+2 shared
|
John Lloyd Waddy
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
15.5
|
|
|
Donald M. Beerbower
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
15.5
|
|
|
Brian Carbury
|
New Zealand
|
Royal Air Force
|
15.5
|
|
Ace in a day
|
Richard A. Peterson
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
15.5
|
|
(+3.5 ground kills)
|
James E. Swett
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
15.5
|
|
Ace in a day
|
David Lee "Tex" Hill
|
United States
|
American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces
|
15¼
|
|
Ace status on 2 different air forces
|
Martti Alho
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
15
|
|
|
Ljudevit Bencetic
|
Croatia
|
Croatian Air Force
|
15
|
|
|
Jack T. Bradley
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
15
|
|
|
Samuel J. Brown
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
15
|
|
|
Edward "Porky" Cragg
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
15
|
|
|
František Cyprich
|
Slovak Republic
|
Slovak Air Force
|
15
|
|
possibly 18
|
Kenneth H. Dahlberg
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
15
|
|
|
Robert Francis Thomas "Bob" Doe
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
15
|
|
Includes two shared. One more probable.
|
William D. Dunham
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
15
|
|
|
Robert W. Foy
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
15
|
|
|
John "Jack" Frost †
|
South Africa
|
South African Air Force
|
15
|
|
|
Raymond Harries
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
15
|
|
+3 shared
|
Ralph K. Hofer
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
15
|
|
(+14 ground kills)
|
Cyril F. Homer
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
15
|
|
|
Paterson Hughes
|
Australia
|
Royal Air Force
|
15
|
|
|
Don C. Laubman
|
Canada
|
Royal Canadian Air Force
|
15
|
|
|
Ian Roy MacLennan
|
Canada
|
Royal Canadian Air Force
|
15
|
Ivo von Lubich-Edler Milowa
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
15
|
Harold L. Spears †
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
15
|
|
|
Stoyan Stoyanov
|
Bulgaria
|
Royal Bulgarian Air Force
|
15
|
|
|
Alois Vašátko
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
15
|
|
|
Donald H. Bochkay
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
14.84
|
|
|
Donald J. Blakeslee
|
United States
|
Royal Air Force; U.S. Army Air Forces
|
14.5
|
|
victories with 2 air forces
|
John D. Landers
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
14.5
|
|
(+20 ground kills)
|
Aaro Nuorala
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
14.5
|
|
|
Joseph H. Powers, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
14.5
|
|
|
Johnnie Checketts
|
New Zealand
|
Royal New Zealand Air Force
|
14.5
|
|
|
Henry Brown
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Force
|
14.5
|
|
(+14.5 ground kills)
|
Charles Scherf
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
14.5
|
|
(+9 ground kills)
|
David Fairbanks
|
Canada
|
Royal Canadian Air Force
|
14
|
|
Top Hawker Tempest ace with 13 of his 14 victories scored on it.
|
Mario Bellagambi
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
14
|
|
|
Svein Heglund
|
Norway
|
Royal Air Force
|
14
|
|
|
Sophus Baagoe †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
14
|
|
|
Günther Wegmann
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
14
|
|
Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262
|
František Brezina
|
Slovak Republic
|
Slovak Air Force
|
14
|
|
|
Bruce W. Carr
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
14
|
|
(+10 ground kills)
|
Robert C. Curtis
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
14
|
|
|
Robert M. DeHaven
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
14
|
|
|
Archie Donahue
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
14
|
|
|
Wallace N. Emmer
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
14
|
|
|
James A. Goodson
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
14
|
|
(+13 ground kills)
|
Arthur R. Hawkins
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
14
|
|
|
Arthur F. Jeffrey
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
14
|
|
|
Edward O. McComas
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
14
|
|
|
Elbert S. McCuskey
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
14
|
|
|
Daniel T. Roberts, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
14
|
|
|
Gray Stenborg †
|
New Zealand
|
Royal New Zealand Air Force
|
14
|
|
|
John L. Wirth
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
14
|
|
|
István Fábián (pilot)
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
14
|
|
|
István Kálmán
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
14
|
|
|
George Carpenter
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
13.833
|
|
(+4 ground kills)
|
William Henry Franklin
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
13.5
|
|
|
George Chamberlain Duncan
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
13.5
|
|
|
Pekka Kokko
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
13.5
|
|
|
Heimo Lampi
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
13.5
|
|
|
Roger W. Mehle
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
13.5
|
|
|
Donald J. Strait
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
13.5
|
|
|
Donald S. Bryan
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
13.3
|
|
Ace in a day
|
Darrell S. Cramer
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
13
|
|
|
John Wong Pan-Yang
|
United States
|
Chinese Nationalist Air Force
|
13
|
|
|
James L. Brooks
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
13
|
|
|
Jan Zumbach
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
13
|
|
|
Safet Boskic
|
Croatia
|
Croatian Air Force
|
13
|
|
|
Mervyn Shipard
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
13
|
|
|
Daniel A. Carmichael, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
13
|
|
|
James N. Cupp
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
13
|
|
|
Clyde B. East
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
13
|
|
|
Robert E. Galer
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
13
|
|
|
John F. Hampshire
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
13
|
|
|
Bruce K. Holloway
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
13
|
|
|
William P. Marontate
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
13
|
|
|
Willard. W. Millikan
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
13
|
|
(+2 ground kills)
|
Glennon T. Moran
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
13
|
|
(+3 ground kills)
|
Robert Neale
|
United States
|
American Volunteer Group
|
13
|
|
(+2.5 ground kills)
|
László Pottyondi
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
13
|
|
|
László Máthé
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
13
|
|
|
Robin Olds
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
13
|
+4 in Vietnam War
|
(+11 ground kills)
|
James O'Meara
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
13
|
|
|
Yrjö Pallasvuo
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
13
|
|
|
Harry A. Parker
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
13
|
|
|
Roy W. Rushing
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
13
|
|
|
Edward O. Shaw †
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
13
|
|
|
AJ "Jackie" Sewell
|
United Kingdom
|
Fleet Air Arm
|
13
|
|
|
Robert W. Stephens
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
13
|
|
|
John R. Strane
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
13
|
|
|
Robert Lee Scott, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
13
|
|
|
Wendell V. Twelves
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
13
|
|
|
Tony Bartley
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
13
|
|
|
Ian Richard Gleed
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
13
|
|
|
Felix D. Williamson
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
13
|
|
|
Tiberiu Vinca
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
13
|
|
|
Ioan Maga
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
13
|
|
|
Henryk Pietrzak
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
12.5
|
|
|
Lasse Aaltonen
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
12.5
|
|
|
Ted Thorn
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
12.5
|
|
|
Hugo Armstrong
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
12.5
|
|
|
Andrew "Nicky" Barr
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
12.5
|
|
|
Tony Gaze
|
Australia
|
Royal Air Force
|
12.5
|
|
|
Lowell K. Brueland
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
12.5
|
+2 in Korean War
|
|
Kenneth D. Frazier
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
12.5
|
|
|
David Charles "Foob" Fairbanks
|
United States
|
Royal Canadian Air Force
|
12.5
|
|
|
Irving Farmer Kennedy
|
Canada
|
Royal Canadian Air Force
|
12.5
|
|
|
Eino Koskinen
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
12.5
|
|
|
Onni Paronen
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
12.5
|
|
|
Urho Sarjamo †
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
12.5
|
|
|
Per-Erik Sovelius
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
12.5
|
|
|
James C. Stewart
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
12.5
|
|
(+1 ground kill)
|
James H. Howard
|
United States
|
American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces
|
12⅓
|
|
victories with 2 air forces (6⅓ with AVG and 6 with USAF)
|
Quince L. Brown
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
12⅓
|
|
(+2 ground kills)
|
Lydia Litvyak †
|
Soviet Union
|
Soviet Air Force
|
12
|
range 6-12 highest ranking female ace
|
|
Luigi Baron
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
12
|
|
|
Mato Culinovic
|
Croatia
|
Croatian Air Force
|
12
|
|
|
John A. Kent
|
Canada
|
Royal Air Force
|
12
|
|
(+1 ground kill)
|
Eduard Martinko
|
Croatia
|
Croatian Air Force
|
12
|
|
|
Veca Mikovic
|
Croatia
|
Croatian Air Force
|
12
|
|
|
Zlatko Stipcic
|
Croatia
|
Croatian Air Force
|
12
|
|
|
Marian Pisarek
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
12
|
|
|
John Dundas
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
12
|
|
|
John Freeborn
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
12
|
|
|
Jozef Štauder
|
Slovak Republic
|
Slovak Air Force
|
12
|
|
possibly 13
|
Pavol Zeleňák
|
Slovak Republic
|
Slovak Air Force
|
12
|
|
|
Bruce Bretherton
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
12
|
|
|
Charles Crombie
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
12
|
|
|
Peter Turnbull
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
12
|
|
|
John Yarra
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
12
|
|
|
Anton Matúšek
|
Slovak Republic
|
Slovak Air Force
|
12
|
|
|
Leo Ahokas
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
12
|
|
|
Michael Brezas
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
12
|
|
|
Levi R. Chase
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
12
|
|
|
Clement M. Craig
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
12
|
|
|
Nicholas Gresham Cooke †
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
12
|
|
Ace in a day
|
David B. Eastham
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
12
|
|
|
Loren D. Everton
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
12
|
|
|
Luigi Giannella
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
12
|
|
|
George W. Gleason
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
12
|
|
(+2.5 ground kills)
|
Leroy E. Harris
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
12
|
|
|
Coatsworth B. Head, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
12
|
|
|
Roger R. Hedrick
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
12
|
|
|
Howard D. Hively
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
12
|
|
(+2.5 ground kills)
|
Georg Kraft †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
12
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Kenneth G. Ladd
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
12
|
|
|
Albert Lippett †
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
12
|
|
Ace in a day, turret gunner on a two-man fighter plane
|
William J. Masoner, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
12
|
|
|
Pierce McKennon
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
12
|
|
(+9.7 ground kills)
|
Robert W. Moore
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
12
|
|
|
József Málik †
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
12
|
|
|
Ferenc Málnássy †
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
12
|
|
|
František Peřina
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
12
|
|
|
Michael J. Quirk
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
12
|
|
(+5 ground kills)
|
Jack Rae
|
New Zealand
|
Royal New Zealand Air Force
|
12
|
|
|
Attilio Sanson
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
12
|
|
|
LeRoy A. Schreiber
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
12
|
|
(+2 ground kills)
|
Harold E. Segal
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
12
|
|
|
James A. Shirley
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
12
|
|
|
Norman C. Skogstad
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
12
|
|
|
William J. Sloan
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
12
|
|
|
Giorgio Solaroli di Briona
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
12
|
|
|
Eugene A. Trowbridge
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
12
|
|
|
Richard E. Turner
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
12
|
|
possibly just 11 (+2 V-1 flying bombs)
|
James A. Watkins
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
12
|
|
|
Edward Wells
|
New Zealand
|
Royal New Zealand Air Force
|
12
|
|
(+4 probables)
|
Richard L. West
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
12
|
|
|
Nicholas Megura
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
11.84
|
|
(+3.8 ground kills)
|
George R. Carr
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
11.5
|
|
|
James A. Clark, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
11.5
|
|
(+4.5 ground kills)
|
Paul A. Conger
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
11.5
|
|
|
Olin E. Gilbert
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
11.5
|
|
|
William T. Halton
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
11.5
|
|
(+2 ground kills)
|
John A. Kirla, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
11.5
|
|
(+.5 ground kill)
|
William N. Snider
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
11.5
|
|
|
Albert O. Vorse Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
11.5
|
|
|
Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
11.5
|
|
Ace in a day
|
Basilios Michael Vassilios "Vass" Vassiliades
|
Greece
|
Royal Air Force
|
11.5
|
|
|
Liu Chi-Sheng / Liu Zhesheng
|
China
|
Chinese Nationalist Air Force
|
11.3
|
|
Top Chinese ace
|
Howard Mayers
|
Australia
|
Royal Air Force
|
11.3
|
|
|
Louis H. Norley
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
11.3
|
|
(+5 ground kills)
|
Philip C. DeLong
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
11.2
|
+2 in Korean War
|
|
Richard John Cork
|
United Kingdom
|
Fleet Air Arm
|
11
|
|
Ace in a day
|
George Jameson
|
New Zealand
|
Royal New Zealand Air Force
|
11
|
|
Highest scoring New Zealand night fighter pilot of WWII
|
Ian Bedford Nesbitt Russell
|
Australia
|
Royal Air Force
|
11
|
|
|
Albin Starc
|
Croatia
|
Croatian Air Force
|
11
|
|
|
Josip Helebrant
|
Croatia
|
Croatian Air Force
|
11
|
|
|
Stjepan Martinasevic
|
Croatia
|
Croatian Air Force
|
11
|
|
|
Harold W. Bauer †
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
11
|
|
|
John T. Blackburn
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
11
|
|
|
William A. Dean, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
11
|
|
|
László Dániel
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
11
|
|
|
Geoff Fisken
|
New Zealand
|
Royal New Zealand Air Force
|
11
|
|
|
Carl M. Frantz
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
11
|
|
|
James B. French (pilot)
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
11
|
|
|
Robert J. Goebel
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
11
|
|
|
Ronald Hamlyn
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
11
|
|
Ace in a day
|
Phillip L. Kirkwood
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
11
|
|
|
John B. Lawler
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
11
|
|
|
Hemmo Leino
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
11
|
|
|
Francis J. Lent
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
11
|
|
|
Leland P. Molland
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
11
|
|
|
William L. Leverette
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
11
|
|
|
John S. Loisel
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
11
|
|
|
Wayne L. Lowry
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
11
|
|
|
Carlo Magnaghi
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
11
|
|
|
Charles M. Mallory
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
11
|
|
|
Alexei Petrovich Maresiev
|
Soviet Union
|
Soviet Air Force
|
11
|
|
3 victories after losing his legs
|
Charles M. McCorkle
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
11
|
|
|
Norman L. McDonald
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
11
|
|
|
Hamilton McWhorter III
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
12
|
|
|
John W. Mitchell
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
11
|
+4 in Korean War
|
|
Urho Nieminen
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
11
|
|
|
Harvey P. Picken
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
11
|
|
|
James V. Reber, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
11
|
|
|
Elmer W. Richardson
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
11
|
|
possibly just 8
|
Robert H. Riddle
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
11
|
|
|
James F. Rigg
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
11
|
|
|
Donald E. Runyon
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
11
|
|
|
Donald H. Sapp
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
11
|
|
|
Warren Schrader
|
New Zealand
|
Royal New Zealand Air Force
|
11
|
|
|
Murray Shubin
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
11
|
|
|
Otto Smik
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
11
|
|
(+3 V-1 flying bombs)
|
Cornelius Smith, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
11
|
|
|
Giorgio Solaroli di Briona
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
11
|
|
|
Kenneth C. Sparks
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
11
|
|
|
Richard E. Stanbrook
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
11
|
|
|
Mario Veronesi
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
11
|
|
|
Virgil K. Meroney
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10
|
|
|
Ilkka Törrönen
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
11
|
|
|
Mario Veronesi
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
11
|
|
|
Ioan Malacescu
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
11
|
|
|
Teodor Zabava
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
11
|
|
|
George T. Burgard
|
United States
|
American Volunteer Group
|
10.75
|
|
|
Frank Q. O'Conner
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10.75
|
|
|
Charles F. Anderson, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10.5
|
|
(+5.5 ground kills)
|
Andrew Bosman
|
South Africa
|
South African Air Force
|
10.5
|
|
|
Richard Joseph Audet †
|
Canada
|
Royal Canadian Air Force
|
10.5
|
|
Ace in a day
|
Marshall U. Beebe
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
10.5
|
|
|
George F. Ceulleers
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10.5
|
|
|
Jack E. Conger
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
10.5
|
|
|
George A. Doersch
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10.5
|
|
(+.5 ground kill)
|
Niilo Erkinheimo
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
10.5
|
|
|
William J. Hovde
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10.5
|
+1 in Korean War
|
(+2 ground kills)
|
Martti Kalima
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
10.5
|
|
|
Kullervo Lahtela
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
10.5
|
|
|
Raymond H. Littge
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10.5
|
|
(+13 ground kills)
|
Kai Metsola
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
10.5
|
|
|
John V. Newkirk
|
United States
|
American Volunteer Group
|
10.5
|
|
|
Eino Peltola
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
10.5
|
|
|
Edward Rector
|
United States
|
American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10.5
|
|
victories with 2 air forces
|
Russell E. Reiserer
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
10.5
|
|
|
John A. Storch
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10.5
|
|
(+1.5 ground kills)
|
John C. Symmes
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
10.5
|
|
|
Robert E. Murray
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
10.4
|
|
|
Ralph E. Elliot
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
10.3
|
|
|
Fred W. Glover
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10.3
|
|
(+12.5 ground kills)
|
Bobby Gibbes
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
10¼
|
|
|
William D. McGarry
|
United States
|
American Volunteer Group
|
10¼
|
|
|
Stanley W. Vejtasa
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
10¼
|
|
Ace in a day
|
Hugo Armstrong
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
10
|
|
|
Robert W Aschenbrenner
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10
|
|
|
Wilfred Arthur
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
10
|
|
|
Virgil Brennan
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
10
|
|
|
Nigel Park †
|
New Zealand
|
Royal New Zealand Air Force
|
10
|
|
|
Colin Parkinson
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
10
|
|
|
Frank B. Baldwin
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
10
|
|
|
Minden Blake
|
New Zealand
|
Royal Air Force
|
10
|
|
|
Wayne K. Blickenstaff
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10
|
|
|
Archie Boyd
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
10
|
|
|
Joseph E. Broadhead
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10
|
|
|
Carl A. Brown, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
10
|
|
|
Thaddeus T. Coleman
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
10
|
|
|
William K. Giroux
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10
|
|
|
Walter J. Goehausen, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10
|
|
|
George Ernest Goodman †
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
10
|
|
+6 shared
|
Ernest A. Harris
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10
|
|
|
Iro Ilk
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
10
|
|
|
Alwin M. Juchheim, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10
|
|
(+6 ground kills)
|
Veikko Karu
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
10
|
|
|
Mauno Kirjonen
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
10
|
|
|
Ahti Laitinen
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
10
|
|
|
Robert Little †
|
United States
|
American Volunteer Group
|
10
|
|
|
Edward E. Lines
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10
|
|
|
Herbert H. Long
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
10
|
|
|
Thomas H. Mann, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
10
|
|
|
Miroslav J. Mansfeld
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
10
|
|
(+2 V-1 flying bombs)
|
Joseph L. Mansker
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10
|
|
|
Harris E. Mitchell
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
10
|
|
|
Mikko Pasila
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
10
|
|
|
Steve Pisanos
|
Greece
|
Royal Air Force; U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10
|
|
|
Robert J. Rankin
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10
|
|
|
Thomas H. Reidy
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
10
|
|
|
Andrew J. Reynolds
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10
|
|
|
Robert L. Scott, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10
|
|
|
Arthur Singer, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
10
|
|
|
John M. Smith
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
10
|
|
|
Claudio Solaro
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
10
|
+1 in Spanish Civil War
|
|
Paul M. Stanch
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10
|
|
|
Robert Spurdle
|
New Zealand
|
Royal New Zealand Air Force
|
10
|
|
|
Josef Stehlík
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
10
|
|
|
Elliot Summer
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10
|
|
|
James S. Swope
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
10
|
|
|
Ennio Tarantola
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
10
|
+1 in Spanish Civil War
|
|
Adriano Visconti
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
10
|
|
|
Robert V. Westermark
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10
|
|
|
Ion Dobran
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
10
|
|
|
Nicolae Polizu-Micsunesti
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
10
|
|
|
Dumitru Ilie
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
10
|
|
|
Fletcher E. Adams
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9 .5
|
|
|
Frederick Alan Aikman
|
Canada
|
Royal Canadian Air Force
|
9 .5
|
|
|
Ernest E. Bankey, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9 .5
|
|
(+8 ground kills)
|
William M. Banks
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9 .5
|
|
|
Leonard J. Check
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
9 .5
|
|
|
Edward Coate
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
9 .5
|
|
|
Ernest C. Fiebelkorn
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9 .5
|
|
possibly just 9 (+2 ground kills)
|
Aleksander Gabszewicz
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
9 .5
|
|
|
Michał Maciejowski
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
9 .5
|
|
|
Dale F. Spencer
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9 .5
|
|
(+.5 ground kill)
|
Robert C. Coats
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
9 ⅓
|
|
|
Mirosław Ferić
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
9 ⅓
|
|
|
Henryk Szczęsny
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
9 ⅓
|
|
|
Charles R. Bond
|
United States
|
American Volunteer Group
|
9 ¼
|
|
|
Hans-Ulrich Rudel
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
9+
|
|
Also a top ground attack pilot, with 2000+ targets destroyed
|
Stephen W. Andrew
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
(+6.5 ground kills)
|
Emanuele Annoni
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
9
|
|
|
Lee "Buddy" Archer
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
(+6 ground kills) Only African-American ace in WWII
|
Roderick Bowes
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
9
|
|
|
Edgar R. Bassett †
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
9
|
|
|
Norman R. Berree
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
9
|
|
|
William R. Bland
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
9
|
|
|
George E. Bostwick
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
(+6 ground kills)
|
Mark K. Bright
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
9
|
|
|
Paul D. Buie
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
9
|
|
|
Lajos Buday †
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
9
|
|
|
Henry A. Carey, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
9
|
|
|
Frederick F. Champlin
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
|
Aleksander Chudek
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
9
|
|
|
Wilfred Clouston
|
New Zealand
|
Royal Air Force
|
9
|
|
|
Frank J. Collins
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
possibly just 8
|
William M. Collins, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
9
|
|
|
Richard L. Cormier
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
9
|
|
|
Louis Edward Curdes
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
|
Perry A. Dahl
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
|
Jefferson J. DeBlanc
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
9
|
|
Ace in a day
|
Richard W. Dunkin
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
|
Charles H. Dyson
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
9
|
|
Ace in a day (six minutes)
|
Richard T. Eastmond
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
9
|
|
|
Robert A. Elder
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
(+2 ground kills)
|
Eugene H. Emmons
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
|
Jan Falkowski
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
9
|
|
|
Grover E. Fanning
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
|
Edward L. Feightner
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
9
|
|
|
Sylvan Feld
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
|
Joseph M. Forester
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
|
Marvin J. Franger
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
9
|
|
|
Doris C. Freeman
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
9
|
|
|
Kenneth W. Gallup
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
(+2 ground kills)
|
Antoni Glowacki
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
9
|
|
Ace in a day
|
Thomas S. Harris
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
9
|
|
|
Frederick R. Haviland, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
(+6 ground kills)
|
Allen E. Hill
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
|
Frank D. Hurlburt
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
|
Ernest Joyce †
|
New Zealand
|
Royal New Zealand Air Force
|
9
|
|
(+ 2 probably destroyed)
|
James Timothy Kearney
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
9
|
|
|
George C. Kiser
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
|
Joseph J. Lesicka
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
|
Christopher L. Magee
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
9
|
|
|
John MacKenzie
|
New Zealand
|
Royal Air Force
|
9
|
|
(+3 probably destroyed)
|
Louis A. Menard, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
9
|
|
|
Virgil K. Merony
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
|
Stanley B. Morrill
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
|
Walter Omiccioli
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
9
|
|
|
Edmund F. Overend
|
United States
|
American Volunteer Group; U.S. Marine Corps
|
9
|
|
victories with 2 air forces
|
Lloyd J. Overfield
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
|
Joel B. Paris III
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
|
Paul Rabone †
|
New Zealand
|
Royal Air Force
|
9
|
|
|
Eugene D. Redmond
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
9
|
|
|
William Norman Reed
|
United States
|
American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
victories with 2 air forces
|
Daniel R. Rehm, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
9
|
|
|
Eugene P. Roberts
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
|
Meryl M. Smith
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
|
Robert T. Smith
|
United States
|
American Volunteer Group
|
9
|
|
|
Natalino Stabile
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
9
|
+ 1 in Spanish Civil War
|
|
James S. Stewart
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
9
|
|
|
John S. Stewart
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
|
Franklin C. Thomas, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
9
|
|
|
Arthur Van Haren, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
9
|
|
|
Adrian Warburton †
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
9
|
|
ace while flying aircraft configured for reconnaissance missions
|
Benjamin F. Warmer
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
|
Robert H. White
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
|
Isamu Kashiide
|
Japan
|
Imperial Japanese Army
|
9
|
|
claims 26 B-29s and 7 Soviet fighters
|
Judge E. Wolfe
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
|
Gheorghe Popescu Ciocanel
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
9
|
|
|
Stefan Greceanu
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
9
|
|
|
Gheorghe Cocebas
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
9
|
|
|
Andrei Radulescu
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
9
|
|
|
Charles E. Watts
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8.75
|
|
|
John L. Banks
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8.5
|
|
|
William E. Bryan, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8.5
|
|
|
Stanisław Brzeski
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
8.5
|
|
|
James B. Cain
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8.5
|
|
|
Charles J. Cesky
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8.5
|
|
|
Oscar I. Chenoweth
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8.5
|
|
|
Arthur Chin
|
United States
|
Chinese Nationalist Air Force
|
8.5
|
|
First American ace of WWII, flew biplane fighter
|
Frank A. Cutler
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8.5
|
|
(+3 ground kills)
|
Carl C. Foster
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8.5
|
|
|
John F. Gray
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8.5
|
|
|
Everett G. Hargreaves
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8.5
|
|
|
Thomas L. Hayes, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8.5
|
|
|
Zdzisław Henneberg †
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
8.5
|
|
|
John H. Hoefker
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8.5
|
|
|
Otto D. Jenkins
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8.5
|
|
(+2 ground kills)
|
Arthur G. Johnson
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8.5
|
|
|
George Noel Keith †
|
Canada
|
Royal Canadian Air Force
|
8.5
|
|
|
Wacław Król
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
8.5
|
|
|
Frank L. Lawlor
|
United States
|
American Volunteer Group
|
8.5
|
|
|
Gregory K. Loesch
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
8.5
|
|
|
Carl J. Luksic
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8.5
|
|
(+7 ground kills)
|
Donald McDowell
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8.5
|
|
|
Bernard J. McGrattan
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8.5
|
|
|
Sanford K. Moats
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8.5
|
|
|
John L. Morgan, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
8.5
|
|
|
George W. Pigman
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8.5
|
|
|
Claude W. Plant
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8.5
|
|
|
Albert L. Schlegel
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8.5
|
|
|
Dallas Schmidt
|
Canada
|
Royal Canadian Air Force
|
8.5
|
|
|
Larry R. Self
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8.5
|
|
|
Antoni Głowacki
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
8⅓
|
|
|
Eugeniusz Szaposznikow
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
8⅓
|
|
|
John Fraser Drummond
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
8⅓
|
|
|
Franklin T. Gabriel
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8¼
|
|
|
George Bray McMillan
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8¼
|
|
(+1 ground kills)
|
Adolf Pietrasiak
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
8.1
|
|
|
Witold Łokuciewski
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
8
|
|
|
Helmut Lennartz
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
8+
|
|
Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262
|
Erich Büttner
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
8
|
|
Jet ace with all victories in Me 262
|
John M. Ainlay
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
possibly just 7
|
John R. Alison
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
David W. Allen (USAAF)
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Frederick A. Bardshar
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8
|
|
|
Lloyd G. Barnard
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8
|
|
|
Walter G. Benz, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
William J. Bonneau
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8
|
|
|
Robert J. Booth
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Roy O. Burnett, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8
|
|
|
Walter J. Carroll, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
William N. Case
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
8
|
|
|
J. D. Collinsworth
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
possibly just 6
|
Arthur W. Cruikshank
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Václav Cukr-Cooper
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
8
|
|
|
Fernley H. Damstrom
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
John F. Dobbin
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
8
|
|
|
Landis E. Doner
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8
|
|
|
Frederick J. Dorsch
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Walter F. Duke
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
William C. Edens
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
(+3 ground kills)
|
John L. Elder
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
(+13 ground kills)
|
Eric A. Evenson
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8
|
|
|
Arthur C. Fielder, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Francis M. Fleming
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8
|
|
|
James M. Fowle
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
William A. Gardner
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Frank Gaunt
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
possibly just 7
|
Francis R. Gerard
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Clement D. Gile
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8
|
|
|
Maxwell H. Glenn
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
possibly just 5 (+3 ground kills)
|
Mathew M. Gordon
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Leroy V. Grosshuesch
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Fred E. Gutt
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
8
|
|
|
Mayo A. Hadden, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8
|
|
|
Peter Hall
|
New Zealand
|
Royal New Zealand Air Force
|
8
|
|
|
Aladár Heppes
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
8
|
|
|
Frederick A. Harris
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Kenneth F. Hart
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Edwin J. Herman (or Hernan), Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
8
|
|
|
George L. Hollowell
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
8
|
|
|
Angus Horne
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
8
|
|
|
Jack M. Ilfrey
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Mervyn Ingram †
|
New Zealand
|
Royal New Zealand Air Force
|
8
|
|
|
Michael J. Jackson
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
(+5.5 ground kills)
|
Byron M. Johnson
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8
|
|
|
John M. Johnson
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8
|
|
|
John L. Jones
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Claiborne H. Kinnard
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
(+17 ground kills)
|
Pál Kovács (pilot) †
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
8
|
|
|
Charles M. Kunz
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
8
|
|
|
William N. Leonard
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8
|
|
|
Elvin L. Lindsay
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8
|
|
|
Thomas E. Maloney
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
possibly just 7
|
William R. Maxwell
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8
|
|
|
Earl May, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8
|
|
|
Johnnie G. Miller
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8
|
|
|
Erich Mix
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
8
|
+3 in World War I
|
possibly 13
|
William W. Momyer
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Douglas W. Mulcahey
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8
|
|
|
Alva C. Murphy
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Joseph L. Narr
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
8
|
|
|
George P. Novotny
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
9
|
|
|
John G. O'Neill
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Edward M. Owen
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8
|
|
|
Nathan T. Post
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
8
|
|
|
Luther D. Prater, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8
|
|
|
Edward F. Roddy
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Robert R. Rowland
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Philip Sangermano (FO)
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Charles W. Sawyer
|
United States
|
American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
victories with 2 air forces
|
Glenn D. Schiltz Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
David A. Scott
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8
|
|
possibly 9
|
Dale E. Shafer
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Robert M. Shaw
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
William A. Shomo
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
Ace in a day, awarded the Medal of Honor for this action
|
Irving Smith
|
New Zealand
|
Royal New Zealand Air Force
|
8
|
|
Transferred to the Royal Air Force after WWII
|
Robert H. Smith
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Gordon Arthur Stanley
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8
|
|
|
Arland Stanton
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
John L. Sublett
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Leopold Šrom
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
8
|
|
|
James B. Tapp
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Philip Edward Tovrea Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
James O. Tyler
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
John W. Vogt, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Boyd D. "Buzz" Wagner
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
First U.S. Armed Forces ace, within nine days of Attack on Pearl Harbor
|
Victor E. Warford
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
|
Arthur T. Warner
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
8
|
|
|
Charles E. Weaver
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
8
|
|
(+3 ground kills)
|
Hans-Dieter Weihs
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
8
|
|
Jet ace with all victories in Me 262
|
Norman. F Williams
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
8
|
|
Bomber rear gunner, only non-fighter plane ace of WWII
|
Rex Kerslake Wilson
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
8
|
|
|
Theodore H. Winters, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
8
|
|
|
Donald K. Yost
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
8
|
|
|
Dan Scurtu
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
8
|
|
|
Traian Dirjan
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
8
|
|
|
Eugen Cameceanu
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
8
|
|
|
Mihai Mihordea
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
8
|
|
|
Ioan Panaite
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
8
|
|
|
Joseph L. Lang
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
7.83
|
|
|
Everett W. Stewart
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
7.83
|
|
(+1.5 ground kills)
|
Józef Jeka
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Forces/Royal Air Force
|
7.5
|
|
|
Henryk Pietrzak
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Forces/Royal Air Force
|
7.5
|
|
|
Howard M. Burriss
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
7.5
|
|
|
Kenneth J. Dahms
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
7.5
|
|
|
Vermont Garrison
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
7.3
|
+10 in Korean War
|
Ace in each of two wars
|
Noel le Chevalier Agazarian †
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
7
|
|
|
Alfred Ambs
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
7
|
|
Jet ace with all victories in Me 262
|
Georg Christl
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
7
|
|
|
Otto Stammberger
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
7
|
|
|
William Y. Anderson
|
Sweden
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
7
|
|
(+1 V-1 flying bomb)
|
Karl-Heinz Becker
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
7
|
|
Jet ace with all victories in Me 262
|
Rolf Arne Berg †
|
Norway
|
Royal Air Force
|
7
|
|
|
Marian Bełc
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
7
|
|
|
Harry W. Brown
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
7
|
|
|
Warren R. Lewis
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
7
|
5 Probable
|
P-38J New Guinea
|
Liu Chui-Kang / Liu Cuigang
|
China
|
Chinese Nationalist Air Force
|
7
|
|
|
George Andrew Davis Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
7
|
+21 in Korean War
|
Ace in each of two wars, awarded (posthumously) Medal of Honor for action in Korea
|
Furio Niclot Doglio
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
7
|
|
|
Bolesław Drobiński
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
7
|
|
|
Helmut Eberspächer
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
7
|
|
|
Hugh C. Godefroy
|
Netherlands/ Canada
|
Royal Air Force; Royal Canadian Air Force
|
7
|
|
|
Gordon M. Graham
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
7
|
|
(+9.5 ground kills)
|
Roger Haberman
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
7
|
|
|
Pál Irányi
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
7
|
|
|
Václav Jícha
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
7
|
|
|
Stanisław Karubin
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
7
|
|
|
Konstantin Kokkinaki
|
Soviet Union
|
Soviet Air Forces
|
7
|
+7 in Second Sino-Japanese War
|
Ace in each of two wars
|
Franz Köster
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
7
|
|
Jet ace with all victories in Me 262
|
Otmar Kučera
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
7
|
|
|
Wolfgang Kuthe †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
7
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Béla Lipcsey
|
Hungary
|
Luftwaffe
|
7
|
|
|
Bert W. Marshall, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
7
|
|
(+4 ground kills)
|
Iosif Moraru
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
7
|
|
|
Liviu Muresan
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
7
|
|
|
Giuseppe Oblach
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
7
|
|
|
Edward "Butch" O'Hare †
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
7
|
|
|
Sammy A. Pierce
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
7
|
|
|
Stanislav Plzák
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
7
|
|
|
Constantin Pomut
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
7
|
|
|
Walter Prues
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
7
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Arval J. Roberson
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
7
|
|
(+1 ground kill)
|
Ferruccio Serafini
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
7
|
|
|
Ernest Shipman
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
7
|
|
|
Parsifal Stefanescu
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
7
|
|
|
Kálmán Szeverényi †
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
7
|
|
|
Richard Trousdale
|
New Zealand
|
Royal Air Force
|
7
|
|
|
György Ujszászy
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
7
|
|
|
Arthur Umbers †
|
New Zealand
|
Royal Air Force
|
7
|
|
(+28 v1 flying bombs and 10 ground kills)
|
Tomáš Vybíral
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
7
|
|
|
Sydney S. Woods
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
7
|
|
|
Robert E. Woody
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
7
|
|
(+2 ground kills)
|
Karol Pniak
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
6.75
|
|
|
Basil Gerald "Stapme" Stapleton
|
South Africa
|
Royal Air Force
|
6.66
|
|
|
Richard Edward Fowler
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
6.5
|
|
|
Howard Peter Blatchford †
|
Canada
|
Royal Canadian Air Force
|
6.5
|
|
|
Lloyd Chadburn †
|
Canada
|
Royal Canadian Air Force
|
6.5
|
|
|
James Douglas Lindsay
|
Canada
|
Royal Canadian Air Force
|
6.5
|
|
+2 in Korean War
|
Willard Eder
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
6.5
|
|
|
Russell Foskett
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
6.5
|
|
|
Wacław Łapkowski
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
6.33
|
|
|
Alan Peart
|
New Zealand
|
Royal New Zealand Air Force
|
6.33
|
|
|
Horia Agarici
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
Florin Alexiu
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
GianLino Baschirotto
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
6
|
+5 in Spanish Civil War
|
Ace in each of two wars
|
Livio Bassi
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
6
|
|
|
Wolfrat Bauer †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
6
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Henry S. Bille
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
6
|
|
(+4 ground kills)
|
Scrappy Blumer
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
6
|
|
Ace in a day (fifteen minutes)
|
Yekaterina Budanova
|
Soviet Union
|
Soviet Air Force
|
6
|
|
possibly 11, +5 shared
|
Andreas Antoniou
|
Greece
|
Hellenic Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
James B. Dalglish
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
6
|
|
(+3 V-1 flying bombs)
|
František Doležal
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
Bryan Draper †
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
|
6
|
|
|
Josef Dygrýn-Ligotický
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
Stanislav Fejfar
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
Guido Fibbia
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
6
|
+3 in Spanish Civil War
|
|
Carlos Faustinos
|
Mexico
|
Mexican Air Force
|
6
|
|
Also known as Charlie Foster.
|
Ervin Flóznik †
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
James W. Griffis
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
6
|
|
|
Clayton Kelly Gross
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
6
|
|
355th FS, 354th FG, ETO
|
Fred R. Haviland, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
6
|
|
(+6 ground kills)
|
Michael Herrick †
|
New Zealand
|
Royal Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
Horace B. Moranville
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
6
|
|
|
James P. Hagerstrom
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
6
|
|
|
Stefan Janus
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
Oskar Köstler †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
6
|
|
|
Fritz Kruse †
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
6
|
|
Night fighter ace
|
Kenneth Lake
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
6
|
|
|
Mihály Karátsonyi
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
Lajos Kracsenics
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
Raymond Lallemant
|
Belgium
|
Royal Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
Mátyás Lőrincz †
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
János Mátyás
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
György Michna
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
Norman W. Mollard, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
6
|
|
|
Kálmán Nánási †
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
Norman E. Olson
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
6
|
|
(+2 ground kills)
|
Theo Osterkamp
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
6
|
+32 in World War I
|
Ace in each of two wars
|
Edward Cobb Outlaw
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
6
|
|
Ace in a day
|
Imre Pánczél †
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
Ludwik Witold Paszkiewicz
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
Eduard M. Prchal
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
Radu Reinek
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
Thomas J. Rennemo
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
6
|
|
|
W. R. Scheible
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
6
|
|
(+3 ground Kills)
|
Pál Szikora
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
Gheorghe Tutuianu
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
Constantin Ursachi
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
Bram van der Stok
|
Netherlands
|
Royal Netherlands Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
Remy Van Lierde
|
Belgium
|
Royal Air Force
|
6
|
|
(+44 V-1 flying bombs)
|
Ioan Vornica
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
James Henry Whalen †
|
Canada
|
Royal Canadian Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
William E. Whalen
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
6
|
|
(+2 ground kills)
|
Lynn E. Witt, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
6
|
|
|
Yue Yi-Chin / Yue Yiqin
|
China
|
Chinese Nationalist Air Force
|
6
|
|
|
Dean S. Laird
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5.75
|
|
|
Gordon B. Compton
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5.5
|
|
(+15 ground kills)
|
Norman J. Fortier
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5.83
|
|
(+5.5 ground kills)
|
Walter J. Koraleski
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5.54
|
|
|
Robert P. Winks
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5.5
|
|
|
William Cundy
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
5.5
|
|
|
Charles W. Lenfest
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5.5
|
|
(+2 ground kills)
|
Leslie D. Minchew
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5.5
|
|
(+ 1/2 ground kills)
|
Laurence Stark
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
5.5
|
|
|
Kazimierz Rutkowski
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
5.5
|
|
|
Stefan Witorzeńć
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
5.5
|
|
|
Czesław Główczyński
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
5.5
|
|
|
Michał Cwynar
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
5.5
|
|
|
Mieczysław Mümler
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
5.5
|
|
|
Bolesław Własnowolski
|
Poland
|
Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force
|
5.5
|
|
|
James E. Duffy, Jr
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5.2
|
|
(+9 ground kills)
|
Desmond J. Scott
|
New Zealand
|
Royal Air Force, Royal New Zealand Air Force
|
5
|
|
(+4 Probables)
|
Panagiotis Argyropoulos
|
Greece
|
Hellenic Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Raymond B. Myers
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
(+4 ground kills)
|
William J. Cullerton
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
(+15 ground kills)
|
Hayden A. "Buck" Gregory
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Otto Böhner
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
5
|
|
|
František Chábera
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Joseph Heim
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
5
|
|
Jet ace with all victories in Me 262
|
William Hodgson †
|
New Zealand
|
Royal Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
John Houlton
|
New Zealand
|
Royal New Zealand Air Force
|
5
|
|
(+2 shared destroyed)
|
Alfred Schreiber
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
5
|
|
Jet ace – first ever confirmed – with all victories in Me 262
|
Ulrich Steinhilper
|
Germany
|
Luftwaffe
|
5
|
|
|
Tony Jonsson
|
Iceland
|
Royal Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Kenneth Tait †
|
New Zealand
|
Royal Air Force
|
5
|
|
plus a half share in one aircraft destroyed (with Ian Gleed)
|
Pentti Tilli
|
Finland
|
Finnish Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Robert W. Abernathy
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Fred T. Ackerman
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Oliver L. Adair
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Robert H. Adams (USAAF)
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
John W. Agnew
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
William H. Allen (USAAF)
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Stuart C. Alley Jr
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
Ernest J. Ambort
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Robert H. Ammon
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
(+9 ground kills)
|
Benjamin C. Amsden
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Leslie E. Anderson
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Richard H. Anderson (USAAF)
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Lester L. Arasmith
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
William E. Aron
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Richard W. Asbury
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Abner M. Aust
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Eugene D. Axtell
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Donald A. Baccus
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Jack A. Bade
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Oscar C. Bailey
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Raphael F. Baird
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Donald L. Balch
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
Raymond W. Bank
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Bruce M. Barackman
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Rex T. Barber
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Robert M. Barkey
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Truman S. Barnes
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Albert Baumler
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
+6 in Spanish Civil War
|
Ace in each of two wars
|
Aaron L. Bearden
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Edward H. Beavers Jr
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
József Bejczi †
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Louis Benne
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Jack S. Berkheimer
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Richard L. Bertelson
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
James D. Billo
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Lewis S. Bishop
|
United States
|
American Volunteer Group
|
5
|
|
|
Walter D. Bishop
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Foster J. Blair
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
William K. Blair
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Richard B. Blaydes
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Ladislav Bobek
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Victor E. Bocquin
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
John W. Bolyard
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Robert R. Bonebrake
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Robert R. Bonner Jr
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Guy P. Bordelon
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Clarence A. Borley
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Ernest O. Bostrom
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Wilbur L. Bowen
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Fred E. Bowker
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
John L. Bradley
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Richard L. Braun
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
Gerald A. Brown
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Jasper R. Brown
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Paul J. Bruneau
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Robert L. Buchanan
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Robert G. Burns
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Robert L. Byrnes
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
John B. Carder
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
William A. Carlton
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
Nial K. Castle
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Henry K. Champion
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
George T. Chandler
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Van E. Chandler
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
+3 in Korean War
|
|
Joseph J. Cielinski
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Arthur B. Cleaveland
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Donald C. Clements
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Robert E. Clements
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Dallas A. Clinger
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Vivian A. Cloud
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Paul R. Cochran
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
William F. Collins
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Basil Collyns †
|
New Zealand
|
Royal New Zealand Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Philip E. Colman
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
+4 in Korean War
|
|
Harold E. Comstock
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Harry L. Condon
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Merle M. Coons
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Leland B. Cornell
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Ralph L. Cox
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Niven K. Cranfill
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
William S. Crombie
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
John O. Cross
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Omer W. Culbertson
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
William J. Cullerton
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
(+15 ground kills, plus 9 damaged)
|
Arthur C. Cundy
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Warren D. Curton
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Evžen Čížek
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Roald Dahl
|
United Kingdom
|
Royal Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
William A. Daniel
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Clarence E. Davies
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Leonard K. Davis
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
George E. Dawkins Jr
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
William C. Day Jr
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Richard S. Deakins
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
George Della
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Reuben H. Denoff
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Frederick E. Dick
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Michael Dikovitsky
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Antonio Dini †
|
New Zealand
|
Royal Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Harry W. Dorris
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Cecil J. Doyle
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
Charles W. Drake
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
Daniel B. Driscoll
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Willie Driscoll
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Francis E. Dubisher
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Charles H. Dubois
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
James E. Duffy (USN)
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Richard E. Duffy
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Joseph L. Egen Jr
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Hugh M. Elwood
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
James W. Empey
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Lyle A. Erickson
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Herman E. Ernst
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Charles D. Farmer
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Robert A. Farnsworth Jr
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
William Farrell (USMC)
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
Richard D. Faxon
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Marion C. Felts
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
James E. Fenex Jr
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
William Fiedler (USAAF)
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Virgil C. Fields Jr
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Howard J. Finn
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
Charles R. Fischette
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Harry E. Fisk
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Nelson D. Flack Jr
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Kenneth A. Flinn
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Ralph E. Foltz
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Paul J. Fontana
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
Claude E. Ford
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Kenneth M. Ford
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
George Formanek Jr
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Béla Füleky †
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Bohumil Fürst-Fiřt
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Dwight B. Galt
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Warner F. Gardner
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Noel Gayler
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Steven N. Gerick
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Grover D. Ghelson
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Robert D. Gibb
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Cyrus R. Gladen
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Lindley W. Godson
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Norman D. Gould
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Giorgio Graffer
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
5
|
|
|
Robert F. Graham
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Vernon E. Graham
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
Ace in a day
|
Hayden A. Gregory
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Robert C. Griffith
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
William Grosvenor Jr
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Lindsay W. Grove
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Cheatham W. Gupton
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Albert E. Hacking
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
Samuel E. Hammer
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Harry T. Hanna
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Christopher J. Hansenman
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Josef G. Hanuš
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Walter R. Harman
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Thomas L. Harris (USAAF)
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Raymond E. Hartley
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Herbert B. Hatch
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Charles D. Hauver
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Sándor Hautzinger
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Russell C. Haworth
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Frank R. Hayde
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Frank C. Hearrell
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Charles F. Held Jr
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Paul M. Henderson Jr
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Randall W. Hendricks
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
James E. Hill
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Richard Hope Hillary
|
Australia
|
Royal Air Force
|
5
|
|
(+2 probables)
|
Donald E. Hillman
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Kenneth G. Hippe
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Edwin M. Hiro
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Garrett P. Hopkins
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
10
|
|
(+6 probables)
|
Myron M. Hnatio
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
John B. Hoag
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
William R. Hodges
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Cullen J. Hoffman
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Louis Hoffman
|
United States
|
American Volunteer Group
|
5
|
|
|
Herbert N. Houck
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Edward R. Hoyt
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Mark E. Hubbard
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Howard R. Hudson
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Alvaro J. Hunter
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
András Huszár
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Joseph W. Icard
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Julius W. Ireland
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
Clayton M. Isaacson
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Svatopluk Janouch
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Hayden M. Jensen
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Evan M. Johnson
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Wallace R. Johnson
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Curran L. Jones
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Frank C. Jones
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
(+ 5.5 ground kills)
|
Lynn F. Jones
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Warren L. Jones
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Joseph W. Jorda
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
William M. Julian
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Charles Kendrick
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
Daniel Kennedy
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Robert H. Kidwell
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Melvin B. Kimball
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
John R. Kincaid
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Charles W. King (USAAF)
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
David L. King
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Marion F. Kirby
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Lenton F. Kirkland
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Ernő Kiss (pilot)
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Jan Klán
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Robert H. Knapp
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Carroll S. Knott
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Edward H. Kopsel
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
William J. Kostic
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Bedřich Krátkoruký
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Jiří V. Kučera
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Wayne W. Laird
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
William E. Lamoreaux
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Richard C. Lampe
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Willis Laney
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Ned W. Langdon
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Thomas G. Lanphier
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Franklin C. Lathrope
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Charles H. Laughlin
|
United States
|
American Volunteer Group
|
5
|
|
|
George Laven
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Earl R. Lazear
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Harold K. Lee
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Richard J. Lee
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Marlow J. Leikness
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Charles W. Lenfest
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Jack Lenox Jr
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
John A. Leppla
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Alfred B. Lewelling
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Brooks J. Liles
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
+4 in Korean War
|
|
Hugh D. Lillie
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
James W. Little
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
+1 in Korean War
|
|
John Lolos
|
Greece
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Charles P. London
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Donald Lopez
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
George G. Loving, Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
John F. Luma
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Lowell C. Lutton
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
John A. Mackay
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Morton D. Magoffin
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Keith Mahon
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Jackson C. Mankin
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Lee P. Mankin
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Harry A. March Jr
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Luigi Mariotti
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
5
|
|
|
Lester C. Marsh
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Albert E. Martin Jr
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Kenneth R. Martin
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Joseph L. Mason
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
William H. Mathis
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Joseph Z. Matte
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Chester K. Maxwell
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Benjamin I. Mayo
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Paul G. McArthur
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Henry A. McCartney Jr
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
Leo B. McCudden
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
William F. McDownough
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
James N. McElroy
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
(+6 ground kills)
|
John L. McGinn
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Selva E. McGinty
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
Samuel E. McGuffin
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
John W. McGuyrt
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Donald J. McKinley
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
George. McMillan
|
United States
|
American Volunteer Group
|
5
|
|
|
Evan D. MacMinn
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Donald M. McPherson
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
George L. Merritt Jr
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
(+6 ground kills)
|
Frederick H. Michaelis
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Everett Miller
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Joseph E. Miller
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Robert C. Milliken
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Charles Milton
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Marinos Mitralexis
|
Greece
|
Royal Hellenic Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Arthur P. Mollenhauer
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Franklin H. Monk
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Robert H. Moore
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Paul V. Morriss
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Arthur H. Munson
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Jennings S. Myers
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Joseph R. Myshrall
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Leslie D. Nelson
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Robert J. Nelson
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Franklin A. Nichols
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Edward M. Nollmeyer
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Marvin R. Novak
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Jack G. Oberhansky
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Frank O'Brien Jr
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Edwin L. Olander
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
Austin L. Olsen
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Paul E. Olson
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Enzo Omiccioli
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
5
|
|
|
Eugene W. O'Neill Jr
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Lawrence F. O'Neill
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
347th FG, 342nd Fighter Squadron, PTO
|
Ernest K. Osher
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Robert J. Overcash
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Edward W. Overton Jr
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Joel A. Owens
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Melvyn R. Paisley
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Tibor Papp
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Forrest F. Parham
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Edsel Paulk
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Oscar F. Perdomo
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
Ace in a day
|
John Petach
|
United States
|
American Volunteer Group
|
5
|
|
|
Costantino Petrosellini
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
5
|
|
|
David P. Philips III
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Edward A. Phillips
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Hyde Phillips
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
Kenneth R. Pool
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Edward S. Popek
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Robert B. Porter
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
George H. Poske
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
Ernest A. Powell
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
MacArthur Powers
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Jack C. Price
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Royce W. Priest
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Roger C. Pryor
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Josef Příhoda
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Rajmund Půda
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Donald L. Quigley
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Robert J. Raines
|
United States
|
American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
victories with 2 air forces
|
Orvin H. Ramlo
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
William C. Reese
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Joseph E. Reulet
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Thomas W. Rhodes
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Vincent A. Rieger
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Andrew Ritchey
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Newell O. Roberts
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Leroy W. Robinson
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Ross F. Robinson
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Franklin Rose
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
János Róza
|
Hungary
|
Royal Hungarian Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Gerald L. Rounds
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Henry S. Rudolph
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
William A. Rynne
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Hartwell V. Scarborough
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
Thomas D. Schank
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Gordon E. Schecter
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
John L. Schell
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Raymond Scherer
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
James F. Schilke
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Louis Schriber
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Duerr H. Schuh
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Robert B. Schultz
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Harry H. Sealey
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Alexander F. Sears
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Robert B. See
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
Carlo Seganti
|
Italy
|
Regia Aeronautica
|
5
|
|
|
Robert K. Seidman
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Charles A. Shields
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Lester H. Sipes
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Frank Sistrunk
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Jack R. Smith
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Kenneth B. Smith (USAAF)
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Kenneth D. Smith
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Virgil H. Smith
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Irl V. Sonner Jr
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
James J. Southerland
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Arthur Spurgin
|
Australia
|
Royal Australian Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Clyde P. Spitler
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
William J. Stangel
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Morris A. Stanley
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Edgar E. Stebbins
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Edward J. Stefanski
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Raymond D. Stehle
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Carl V. Stone
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Johnnie C. Strange
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Richard C. Suehr
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Charles P. Sullivan
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Robert C. Sutcliffe
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
John F. Sutherland
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Ladislav Světlík
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Royal Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
John F. Swinburne Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
William J. Sykes
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
(+5 ground kills)
|
Stanley Synar
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
Oliver B. Taylor
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
William W. Taylor (USN)
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Robert D. Thompson
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
John A. Tilley
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Edward W. Toaspern
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
John W. Topliff
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Harrison B. Tordoff
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Ross E. Torkelson
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Eugene P. Townsend
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Clifton H. Troxell
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Peter J. Van Der Linden
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Rudolph D. Van Dyke
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Robert H. Vaught Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
John E. Vogt
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Horace Q. Waggoner
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
(+7.5 ground kills)
|
Walter B. Walker Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Lyttleton T. Ward
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Jack R. Warren
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
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5
|
|
|
Ralph J. Watson
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United States
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U.S. Army Air Forces
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5
|
|
|
Sidney W. Wheatherford
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Willard J. Webb
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Gregory J. Weissenberger
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
Darrell G. Welch
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Albert P. Welles
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
Robert G. West
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Harry S. White
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
John H. White (USAAF)
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
David C. Wilhelm
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Paul H. Wilkins
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
William F. Wilson
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Russell D. Williams
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Robert A. Winston
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Ralph L. Wire
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Lee V. Wiseman
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
John L. Wolford
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
George L. Wrenn
|
United States
|
U.S. Navy
|
5
|
|
|
Max J. Wright
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Vasseure F. Wynn
|
United States
|
Royal Air Force; U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
victories with 2 air forces
|
Robert R. Yaeger Jr.
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Robert M. York
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
|
Michael R. Yunck
|
United States
|
U.S. Marine Corps
|
5
|
|
|
Aurel Tifrea
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Constantin Popescu
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Constantin Nicoară
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Petre Cordescu
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Aurel Tifrea
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Hariton Dusescu
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Vintilă Brătianu
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Nicolae Burileanu
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Laurențiu Catană
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Erich Selei
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Gheorghe Cristea
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Mircea Dumitrescu
|
Romania
|
Royal Romanian Air Force
|
5
|
|
|
Urban L. Drew
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
6
|
|
|
Michael T. Russo
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
5
|
|
Only A-36 Ace in the History
|
Robert Mcwherter
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
6
|
|
First Three kill with 17th PS in the PTO, other three with 363rd FS in ETO
|
Samual Wicker
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
7
|
|
364th Fighter Squadron, ETO
|
John H. Lowell
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
7.5
|
|
Acting commanding officer of 364th Fighter Group
|
Claude J. Crenshaw
|
United States
|
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
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
6
|
|
(+5.25 damage) 531st Fighter Squadron, PTO
|
Leonard R. Reeves
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
6
|
|
DFC, 530th Fighter Squadron, CBI
|
John F. Pugh
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
6
|
|
357th FG, 362nd Fighter Squadron, ETO
|
Calvin D. Allen
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
7
|
|
52nd FG, 5th Fighter Squadron, ETO
|
Gus A. Daymond
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
7
|
|
4th FG, 334th Fighter Squadron, ETO
|
Ralph Wandrey
|
United States
|
U.S. Army Air Forces
|
6
|
|
49th FG, 9th Fighter Squadron, PTO
|