List of World War II flying aces
Fighter aces in World War II had tremendously varying kill scores, affected as they were by many factors: the pilot's skill level, the performance of the airplane he flew and those he flew against, how long he served, his opportunity to meet the enemy in the air (Allied to Axis disproportion), whether he was the formation's leader or a wingman, the standards his air service brought to the awarding of victory credits, et cetera.
Towards the end of the war, the Axis powers had largely exhausted their supply of skilled pilots and the replacements did not have as much opportunity to gain enough experience to be successful. Additionally, national policies differed; German, Italian, and Japanese[1] pilots tended to return to the cockpit over and over again until they were killed.[N 1]
It is not clear what impact each nation's rules for score crediting have on the counts listed below. Germans credited a shared victory to only one pilot, while the French credited full victory to all participants. British, Finnish and US air forces credited fractional shares of aerial victories, resulting in fractions, such as 11½, which might be for example 10 aircraft and three shares with the second pilot. Some U.S. commands also credited aircraft destroyed on the ground. The Soviets counted only solo kills, while group kills were counted separately, as did the Japanese. The Italian Air Force did not officially credit victories to individual pilots, but to their unit as a whole. Probable kills are usually left out of the list.
It is necessary to emphasize that the question of assessing and comparing the success rate of fighters by number of victories is one of the more problematic. There are disputes about what is "shot down" and what is "air victory", but the most problematic seems to be credibility of reports and reliability of its confirmation, which was substantially different in particular air forces. The most reliable is considered the confirmation of the victories in RAF, which based its counts on comparison of testimonials of participants and – if possible – film material.
Aces[]
Gallery[]
Erich Hartmann, highest scoring German ace
Constantin Cantacuzino (aviator), highest scoring Romanian ace and the 3rd highest scoring ace of the European Axis powers
Mato Dukovac, the highest scoring Croatian ace
Ilmari Juutilainen, top flying ace of the Finnish Air Force and the highest scoring non-German fighter pilot of all time
Marmaduke 'Pat' Pattle, the highest scoring United Kingdom and Empire ace
George Beurling, the highest scoring Canadian ace
Richard Bong, the highest scoring US ace
Tetsuzō Iwamoto, Japanese Navy fighter ace, often credited with being the top scoring Japanese ace
Teresio Vittorio Martinoli, the highest scoring Regia Aeronautica ace
Aces[]
Name | Country | Service(s) | Aerial Victories | Other Aerial Victories | Notes |
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Erich Hartmann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 352[2] | Top ace of all time. First ever with 300 victories, achieved coincident with Double-ace in a day | |
Gerhard Barkhorn | Germany | Luftwaffe | 301[2] | ||
Günther Rall | Germany | Luftwaffe | 275[2] | ||
Otto Kittel † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 267[2] | Top Focke-Wulf 190 ace | |
Walter Nowotny † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 258[2] | Double-ace in a day on two different occasions. First to 250 | |
Wilhelm Batz | Germany | Luftwaffe | 237[2] | ||
Erich Rudorffer | Germany | Luftwaffe | 222[2] | Jet ace with 12 victories in Me 262,[3] Double-ace in a day | |
Heinz Bär | Germany | Luftwaffe | 220[2] | Jet ace with 16 victories in Me 262[3] | |
Hermann Graf | Germany | Luftwaffe | 212[2] | First ever with 200 victories | |
Heinrich Ehrler † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 209[2] | Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262[3] | |
Theodor Weissenberger | Germany | Luftwaffe | 208[2] | Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262[3] | |
Hans Philipp † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 206[4] | ||
Walter Schuck | Germany | Luftwaffe | 206[4] | Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262[3] | |
Anton Hafner † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 204[4] | ||
Helmut Lipfert | Germany | Luftwaffe | 203[4] | ||
Walter Krupinski | Germany | Luftwaffe | 197[4] | ||
Anton Hackl | Germany | Luftwaffe | 192[4] | ||
Joachim Brendel | Germany | Luftwaffe | 189[4] | ||
Max Stotz † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 189[4] | ||
Joachim Kirschner † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 188[4] | ||
Kurt Brändle † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 180[4] | ||
Günther Josten | Germany | Luftwaffe | 178[4] | ||
Johannes Steinhoff | Germany | Luftwaffe | 176[4] | Jet ace with 6 victories in Me 262[3] | |
Ernst-Wilhelm Reinert | Germany | Luftwaffe | 174[4] | ||
Günther Schack | Germany | Luftwaffe | 174[4] | ||
Heinz Schmidt † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 173[4] | ||
Emil Lang † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 173[4] | Triple-ace in a day | |
Horst Ademeit † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 166[4] | ||
Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 162[5] | ||
Hans-Joachim Marseille † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 158[5] | Top scoring ace outside the Eastern Front. Destroyed most Western Allied aircraft. Triple-ace in a day | |
Heinrich Sturm † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 157[5] | ||
Gerhard Thyben | Germany | Luftwaffe | 157[5] | ||
Hans Beisswenger † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 152[5] | ||
Gordon Gollob | Germany | Luftwaffe | 150[5] | First ever with 150 victories | |
Peter Düttmann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 150[5] | ||
Fritz Tegtmeier | Germany | Luftwaffe | 146[5] | ||
Albin Wolf † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 144[5] | ||
Kurt Tanzer | Germany | Luftwaffe | 143[5] | ||
Friedrich-Karl Müller † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 140[5] | ||
Karl Gratz | Germany | Luftwaffe | 138[5] | ||
Heinrich Setz † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 138[5] | ||
Rudolf Trenkel | Germany | Luftwaffe | 138[5] | ||
Franz Schall † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 137[5] | Jet ace with 14 victories in Me 262[3] | |
Walter Wolfrum | Germany | Luftwaffe | 137[5] | Double-ace in a day on two different occasions | |
Adolf Dickfeld | Germany | Luftwaffe | 136[5] | ||
Horst-Günther von Fassong † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 136[6] | ||
Otto Fönnekold † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 136[6] | ||
Karl-Heinz Weber † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 136[6] | ||
Joachim Müncheberg † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 135[6] | ||
Hans Waldmann † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 134[6] | Ace in a day | |
Alfred Grislawski | Germany | Luftwaffe | 133[6] | ||
Johannes Wiese | Germany | Luftwaffe | 133[6] | ||
Adolf Borchers | Germany | Luftwaffe | 132[6] | ||
Erwin Clausen † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 132[6] | ||
Wilhelm Lemke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 131[6] | ||
Heinrich Sterr † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 130[6] | ||
Franz Eisenach | Germany | Luftwaffe | 129[6] | ||
Walther Dahl | Germany | Luftwaffe | 128[6] | ||
Franz Dörr | Germany | Luftwaffe | 128[6] | ||
Rudolf Rademacher | Germany | Luftwaffe | 126[6] | Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262[3] | |
Josef Zwernemann † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 126[7] | ||
Gerhard Hoffmann † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 125[7] | ||
Dietrich Hrabak | Germany | Luftwaffe | 125[7] | ||
Wolf-Udo Ettel † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 124[7] | ||
Herbert Ihlefeld | Germany | Luftwaffe | 123[6] | +9 in Spanish Civil War | Ace in each of two wars |
Wolfgang Tonne † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 122[7] | ||
Heinz Marquardt | Germany | Luftwaffe | 121[7] | ||
Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer | Germany | Luftwaffe | 121[8] | Top night fighter ace. Ace in a day | |
Robert Weiß † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 121[7] | ||
Friedrich Obleser | Germany | Luftwaffe | 120[7] | ||
Erich Leie † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 118[7] | ||
Franz-Josef Beerenbrock | Germany | Luftwaffe | 117[7] | ||
Hans-Joachim Birkner † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 117[7] | ||
Jakob Norz † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 117[7] | ||
Walter Oesau † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 117[7] | ||
Heinz Wernicke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 117[7] | ||
August Lambert † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 116[7] | Triple-ace in a day | |
Wilhelm Crinius | Germany | Luftwaffe | 114[7] | ||
Werner Schröer | Germany | Luftwaffe | 114[9] | ||
Hans Dammers † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 113[9] | ||
Berthold Korts † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 113[9] | ||
Kurt Bühligen | Germany | Luftwaffe | 112[9] | ||
Helmut Lent † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 110[8] | Night fighter ace | |
Kurt Ubben † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 110[9] | ||
Franz Woidich | Germany | Luftwaffe | 110[9] | ||
Emil Bitsch † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 108[9] | ||
Hans Hahn | Germany | Luftwaffe | 108[9] | ||
Bernhard Vechtel | Germany | Luftwaffe | 108[9] | ||
Viktor Bauer | Germany | Luftwaffe | 106[9] | ||
Werner Lucas † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 106[9] | ||
Günther Lützow † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 105[10] | +5 in Spanish Civil War | |
Adolf Galland | Germany | Luftwaffe | 104[9] | Jet ace with 7 victories in Me 262[3] | |
Heinz Sachsenberg | Germany | Luftwaffe | 104[9] | ||
Hartmann Grasser | Germany | Luftwaffe | 103[9] | ||
Siegfried Freytag | Germany | Luftwaffe | 102[11] | ||
Friedrich Geisshardt † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 102[11] | ||
Egon Mayer † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 102[11] | ||
Max-Hellmuth Ostermann † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 102[11] | ||
Josef Wurmheller † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 102[11] | ||
Werner Mölders † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 101[7] | +14 in Spanish Civil War | Ace in each of two wars, first in aviation history with 100 victories |
Rudolf Miethig † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 101[11] | ||
Josef Priller | Germany | Luftwaffe | 101[11] | ||
Ulrich Wernitz | Germany | Luftwaffe | 101[11] | ||
Reinhard Seiler | Germany | Luftwaffe | 100[9] | +9 in Spanish Civil War | |
Paul-Heinrich Dähne † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 99[12] | ||
Leopold Steinbatz | Germany | Luftwaffe | 99[11] | ||
Wolfgang Späte | Germany | Luftwaffe | 99[11] | Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262[3] | |
Heinrich Bartels † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 99[11] | ||
Horst Hannig † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 98[11] | ||
Gustav Rödel | Germany | Luftwaffe | 98[11] | ||
Helmut Rüffler | Germany | Luftwaffe | 98[11] | ||
Hans Schleef † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 98[13] | ||
Helmut Mertens | Germany | Luftwaffe | 97[13] | ||
Hermann Schleinhege | Germany | Luftwaffe | 96[13] | ||
Diethelm von Eichel-Streiber | Germany | Luftwaffe | 96[13] | ||
Heinrich Höfemeier † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 96[13] | ||
Siegfried Lemke | Germany | Luftwaffe | 96[13] | ||
Leopold Münster † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 95[13] | ||
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[13] | possibly 101[14] | |
Anton Döbele † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 94[13] | ||
Heinrich Klöpper † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 94[13] | ||
Rudolf Resch † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 93[13] | +1 in Spanish Civil War | |
Edmund Roßmann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 93[13] | ||
Siegfried Schnell † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 93[13] | ||
Helmut Bennemann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 92[13] | ||
Gerhard Loos † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 92[13] | ||
Oskar Romm | Germany | Luftwaffe | 92[13] | ||
Anton Resch | Germany | Luftwaffe | 91[13] | ||
Eberhard von Boremski | Germany | Luftwaffe | 90[15] | possibly 104[16] | |
Heinz Kemethmüller | Germany | Luftwaffe | 89[15] | ||
Georg Schentke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 87[15] | ||
Josef Jennewein † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 86[15] | ||
Anton Mader | Germany | Luftwaffe | 86[15] | ||
Friedrich Wachowiak † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 86[15] | ||
Ulrich Wöhnert | Germany | Luftwaffe | 86[15] | ||
Gerhard Köppen † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 85[15] | ||
Walter Zellot † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 85[15] | ||
Heinz Ewald | Germany | Luftwaffe | 84[15] | ||
Peter Kalden | Germany | Luftwaffe | 84[15] | ||
Werner Quast | Germany | Luftwaffe | 84[15] | ||
Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 83[8] | ||
Otto Weßling † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 83[15] | ||
Walter Ohlrogge | Germany | Luftwaffe | 83[15] | ||
Hans Grünberg | Germany | Luftwaffe | 82[15] | Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262[3] | |
Emil Darjes | Germany | Luftwaffe | 82 | ||
Hans Götz † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 82[15] | ||
Helmut Missner | Germany | Luftwaffe | 82[15] | ||
Franz Beyer † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 81[17] | ||
Max-Hermann Lücke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 81[17] | ||
Hugo Broch | Germany | Luftwaffe | 81[17] | ||
Willi Nemitz † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 81[17] | ||
Wilhelm Philipp | Germany | Luftwaffe | 81[17] | ||
Rudolf Wagner | Germany | Luftwaffe | 81[17] | ||
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[17] | ||
Otto Würfel | Germany | Luftwaffe | 79[17] | ||
Georg-Peter Eder | Germany | Luftwaffe | 78[17] | Jet ace with 12 victories in Me 262[3] | |
Wolfgang Ewald | Germany | Luftwaffe | 78[17] | ||
Heinrich Krafft † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 78[17] | ||
Karl-Gottfried Nordmann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 78[17] | ||
Alexander Preinfalk † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 78[17] | ||
Josef Haiböck | Germany | Luftwaffe | 77[17] | ||
Johann-Hermann Meier † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 77[17] | ||
Hans-Joachim Kroschinski | Germany | Luftwaffe | 76[17] | ||
Maximilian Mayerl | Germany | Luftwaffe | 76[17] | ||
Alfred Teumer † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 76[18] | ||
Edwin Thiel † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 76[18] | ||
Hans Wind | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 75 | ||
Johannes Bunzek † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 75[18] | ||
Helmuth Grollmus | Germany | Luftwaffe | 75[18] | ||
Johann Pichler | Germany | Luftwaffe | 75[18] | ||
Hans Röhrig † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 75[18] | ||
Joachim Wandel † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 75[18] | ||
Gustav Frielinghaus | Germany | Luftwaffe | 74[18] | ||
Otto Gaiser † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 74[18] | ||
Friedrich Haas | Germany | Luftwaffe | 74[18] | ||
Hubertus von Bonin † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 73[17] | +4 in Spanish Civil War | |
Anton Lindner | Germany | Luftwaffe | 73[18] | ||
Gerhard Michalski | Germany | Luftwaffe | 73[18] | ||
Otto Schultz | Germany | Luftwaffe | 73[18] | ||
Wilhelm Herget | Germany | Luftwaffe | 72[8] | ||
Japan | Imperial Japanese Navy | 72 | |||
Klaus Mietusch † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 72[18] | ||
Wilhelm Mink † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 72[18] | ||
Karl-Heinz Schnell | Germany | Luftwaffe | 72[18] | ||
Hans Fuß † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 71[19] | ||
Adolf Glunz | Germany | Luftwaffe | 71[18] | ||
Alfred Heckmann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 71[19] | ||
Herbert Rollwage | Germany | Luftwaffe | 71[20] | ||
Günther Scheel † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 71[19] | ||
Japan | Imperial Japanese Navy | 70 | +40 shared | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 70 | |||
Hermann-Friedrich Joppien † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 70[19] | ||
Heinz Lange | Germany | Luftwaffe | 70[19] | ||
Rudi Linz † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 70[19] | ||
Emil Omert † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 70[19] | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 69[19] | |||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 69[19] | |||
Eugen-Ludwig Zweigart † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 69[19] | ||
Constantin Cantacuzino | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 69 | +8 unconfirmed
Top Romanian ace | |
Kurt Dombacher | Germany | Luftwaffe | 68[19] | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 68[19] | |||
Herbert Huppertz † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 68[19] | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 68[19] | |||
Herbert Kaiser | Germany | Luftwaffe | 68[21] | ||
Richard Leppla | Germany | Luftwaffe | 68[21] | ||
Fritz Losigkeit | Germany | Luftwaffe | 68[21] | ||
Günther Freiherr von Maltzahn | Germany | Luftwaffe | 68[19] | ||
Hans Strelow † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 68[19] | ||
Ernst Süß † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 68[21] | ||
Otto Tange † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 68[21] | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 68[22] | |||
Gustav Denk † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 67[21] | ||
Fritz Dinger † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 67[21] | ||
Herbert Findeisen | Germany | Luftwaffe | 67[21] | ||
Reinhold Hoffmann † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 67[23] | ||
Erbo Graf von Kageneck † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 67[21] | ||
Franz Schieß † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 67[21] | ||
Franz Schwaiger † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 67[21] | ||
Hubert Strassl † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 67[24] | Triple-ace in a day | |
Franz Schwaiger † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 67[25] | ||
Erwin Fleig | Germany | Luftwaffe | 66[21] | ||
Werner Streib | Germany | Luftwaffe | 66[8] | Night fighter ace | |
Ivan Kozhedub | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 66 | Top Allied ace in WWII | |
Heinrich Füllgrabe † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 65[26] | ||
Waldemar Semelka † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 65[26] | ||
Berthold Graßmuck † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 65[26] | ||
Karl Kempf † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 65[26] | ||
Manfred Meurer † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 65[8] | Night fighter ace | |
Günther Radusch | Germany | Luftwaffe | 65[8] | Night fighter ace | |
Germany | Luftwaffe | 64[27] | |||
Bernd Gallowitsch | Germany | Luftwaffe | 64[26] | ||
Jürgen Harder † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 64[26] | ||
Rolf Hermichen | Germany | Luftwaffe | 64[26] | ||
Walter Lindner | Germany | Luftwaffe | 64 | ||
Viktor Petermann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 64[26] | ||
Heinz Rökker | Germany | Luftwaffe | 64[28] | Night fighter ace | |
Rudolf Schoenert | Germany | Luftwaffe | 64[28] | Night fighter ace | |
Franz Götz | Germany | Luftwaffe | 63[26] | ||
Heinrich Hoffmann † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 63[26] | ||
Gerhard Homuth † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 63[26] | ||
Wilhelm Schilling | Germany | Luftwaffe | 63[29] | ||
Hermann Staiger | Germany | Luftwaffe | 63[30] | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 62 | |||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 62[26] | |||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 62[26] | |||
Horst Haase | Germany | Luftwaffe | 62[31] | ||
Karl-Heinz Meltzer † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 61[32] | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 60[33] | |||
Hans-Ekkehard Bob | Germany | Luftwaffe | 60[34] | ||
Horst Carganico † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 60[12] | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 60 | |||
Franz Hrdlicka † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 60[35] | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 60 | |||
August Mors † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 60[26] | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 60[36] | |||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 60[36] | |||
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[37] | ||
Alfred Franke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 59[38] | ||
Franz Eckerle † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 59[39] | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 59[37] | |||
Paul Zorner | Germany | Luftwaffe | 59[28] | Night fighter ace | |
Siegfried Engfer | Germany | Luftwaffe | 59[40] | ||
Hermann Buchner | Germany | Luftwaffe | 58[41] | Jet ace with 12 victories in Me 262[3] | |
Martin Becker | Germany | Luftwaffe | 58[28] | Night fighter ace | |
Herbert Broennle † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 58[42] | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 58[43] | |||
Wilhelm Freuwörth | Germany | Luftwaffe | 58[44] | ||
Gerhard Raht | Germany | Luftwaffe | 58[28] | Night fighter ace | |
Hiromichi Shinohara † | Japan | Imperial Japanese Army | 58 | ||
Grigoriy Andreevich Rechkalov | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 58 | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 58[45] | |||
Lutz-Wilhelm Burckhardt | Germany | Luftwaffe | 57+[46] | ||
Heinrich-Wilhelm Ahnert † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 57[47] | ||
Konrad Bauer | Germany | Luftwaffe | 57[48] | ||
Kurt Ebener | Germany | Luftwaffe | 57[49] | ||
Johannes Seifert † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 57[50] | ||
Hermann Wolf | Germany | Luftwaffe | 57[51] | ||
Edmund Wagner † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 57[52] | ||
Gustav Francsi | Germany | Luftwaffe | 56[28] | Night fighter ace | |
Heinz Hackler † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 56[53] | ||
Erich Hohagen | Germany | Luftwaffe | 56[54] | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 56[55] | |||
Eduard Isken | Germany | Luftwaffe | 56[56] | ||
Kurt Knappe † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 56[57] | ||
Josef Kraft | Germany | Luftwaffe | 56[28] | Night fighter ace | |
Helmut Schönfelder | Germany | Luftwaffe | 56[58] | ||
Günther Seeger | Germany | Luftwaffe | 56[25] | ||
Heinz Strüning † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 56[28] | Night fighter ace | |
Helmut Wick † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 56[59] | ||
Eino Luukkanen | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 56 | ||
Karl-Heinz Bendert | Germany | Luftwaffe | 55[60] | ||
Wilhelm-Ferdinand Galland † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 55[61] | ||
Herbert Bareuther † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 55[62] | ||
Hans-Dieter Frank | Germany | Luftwaffe | 55[28] | Night fighter ace | |
Hans Ehlers † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 55[63] | ||
Herbert Puschmann † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 54[64] | ||
Takeo Okumura † | Japan | Imperial Japanese Navy | 54 | ||
Johann Badum † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 54[65] | ||
† | Germany | Luftwaffe | 54[66] | ||
Siegfried Simsch † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 54[67] | ||
Heinz Vinke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 54[28] | Night fighter ace | |
Hannes Trautloft | Germany | Luftwaffe | 53[68] | +5 in Spanish Civil War | |
August Geiger † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 53[28] | Night fighter ace | |
Kirill A. Yevstigneyev | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 53 | ||
Albert Brunner † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 53[69] | ||
Hans-Joachim Heyer † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 53[23] | ||
Willy Kientsch † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 53[70] | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 53[71] | |||
Julius Meimberg | Germany | Luftwaffe | 53[72] | ||
Herbert Lütje | Germany | Luftwaffe | 53[28] | Night fighter ace | |
Franz Barten † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 52[48] | ||
Heinz-Edgar Berres † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 52[73] | ||
Martin Drewes | Germany | Luftwaffe | 52[28] | Night fighter ace | |
Germany | Luftwaffe | 52[74] | |||
Ludwig Häfner † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 52[53] | ||
Rudolf Pflanz † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 52[75] | ||
Friedrich Rupp † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 52[76] | ||
Werner Hoffmann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 52[28] | Night fighter ace | |
Germany | Luftwaffe | 51[52] | |||
Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 51[28] | Night fighter ace | |
Fritz Lüddecke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 51[77] | ||
Otto Schulz † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 51[78] | ||
Kurt Welter | Germany | Luftwaffe | 50+[79] | Jet ace with 20+ claimed in Me 262;[3] 56 as night fighter; possibly all time jet ace | |
Germany | Luftwaffe | 50[22] | |||
Hermann Greiner | Germany | Luftwaffe | 50[79] | Night fighter ace | |
Dmitry Glinka | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 50 | ||
Hans-Joachim Jabs | Germany | Luftwaffe | 50[79] | Night fighter ace | |
Germany | Luftwaffe | 50 | |||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 50 | |||
Karl Willius † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 50[80] | ||
Rudolf Ehrenberger † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 49[63] | ||
Reinhard Kollak | Germany | Luftwaffe | 49[79] | Night fighter ace | |
Klaus Quaet-Faslem † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 49[81] | ||
Walter Borchers † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 48+[79] | possibly 59[16] | Night fighter ace |
Heinz Arnold † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 48[47] | Jet ace with 7 victories in Me 262[3] | |
Friedrich Beckh † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 48[48] | ||
Paul Gildner † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 48[79] | Night fighter ace | |
Germany | Luftwaffe | 48[79] | Night fighter ace | ||
Werner Stumpf † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 48[24] | ||
Heinz-Gerhard Vogt † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 48[82] | ||
Günter Fink † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 48[83] | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 47[84] | |||
Ernst-Georg Drünkler | Germany | Luftwaffe | 47[85] | Night fighter ace | |
Heinz Golinski † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 47[86] | ||
† | Germany | Luftwaffe | 47[35] | ||
Herbert Kutscha | Germany | Luftwaffe | 47[87] | ||
Erich Schmidt † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 47[88] | ||
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[79] | Night fighter ace | |
Ludwig Becker † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 46[79] | Night fighter ace | |
Wolfgang Böwing-Treuding † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 46[89] | ||
Erwin Laskowski | Germany | Luftwaffe | 46[90] | ||
Karl Rammelt | Germany | Luftwaffe | 46[91] | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 46[92] | |||
Paul Semrau † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 46[79] | Night fighter ace | |
Karl Schnörrer | Germany | Luftwaffe | 45[58] | Jet ace with 11 victories in Me 262[3] | |
Germany | Luftwaffe | 45[93] | |||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 45[24] | |||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 45[45] | |||
Ernst Düllberg | Germany | Luftwaffe | 45[94] | ||
Rudolf Frank † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 45[79] | Night fighter ace | |
Hugo Dahmer | Germany | Luftwaffe | 45[95] | ||
Gerhard Schöpfel | Germany | Luftwaffe | 45[96] | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 45[97] | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 45 | |||
Urho Lehtovaara | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 44.5 | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 44+[39] | |||
Mato Dukovac | Croatia | Croatian Air Force | 44 | Top Croatian ace | |
Oiva Tuominen | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 44 | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 44[98] | |||
Karl-Wilhelm Hofmann † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 44[54] | ||
Reinhold Knacke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 44[79] | Night fighter ace | |
Wilhelm Steinmann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 44[99] | ||
Walther Wever † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 44[100] | ||
Vladimir Bobrov (pilot) | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 43 | ||
Karl Borris | Germany | Luftwaffe | 43[101] | ||
Ludwig Franzisket | Germany | Luftwaffe | 43[44] | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 43[102] | |||
Josef Pöhs † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 43[103] | ||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 43 | |||
Walter Brandt | Germany | Luftwaffe | 42[69] | ||
Olli Puhakka | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 42 | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 42[22] | |||
Jürgen Brocke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 42[42] | ||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 42 | |||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 42[104] | |||
Herbert Schramm † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 42[105] | ||
Robert Olejnik | Germany | Luftwaffe | 42[106] | ||
† | Germany | Luftwaffe | 41[64] | ||
Werner Baake | Germany | Luftwaffe | 41[79] | Night fighter ace | |
Leopold Fellerer | Germany | Luftwaffe | 41[79] | Night fighter ace | |
Ludwig Meister | Germany | Luftwaffe | 41[107] | Night fighter ace | |
Ernst Börngen | Germany | Luftwaffe | 41[34] | ||
Mikhail Pivovarov | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 41 | ||
Marmaduke 'Pat' Pattle † | South Africa | Royal Air Force | 41[108] | 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[59] | +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[109] | Top U.S. ace | |
Wolf-Dietrich Huy | Germany | Luftwaffe | 40[110] | ||
Hermann Neuhoff | Germany | Luftwaffe | 40[111] | ||
Günter Steinhausen † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 40[99] | ||
Eckart-Wilhelm von Bonin | Germany | Luftwaffe | 39[107] | Night fighter ace | |
Dietrich Schmidt | Germany | Luftwaffe | 39[107] | possibly 43[112] | Night fighter ace |
Satoru Anabuki | Japan | Imperial Japanese Army | 39 | 51 claimed | |
Japan | Imperial Japanese Navy | 39 | |||
Eckart-Wilhelm von Bonin | Germany | Luftwaffe | 39[107] | Night fighter ace | |
Hans Dortenmann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 38[85] | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 38[69] | |||
James Edgar "Johnnie" Johnson | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 38[108] | Top Spitfire Ace. | |
Cvitan Galić † | Croatia | Croatian Air Force | 38 | ||
Detlev Rohwer † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 38[113] | ||
Eduard Tratt † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 38[114] | ||
Thomas B. McGuire † | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 38[109] | ||
Günther Bahr | Germany | Luftwaffe | 39[107] | Night fighter ace | |
Ivan Babak | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 37 | ||
Klaus Neumann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 37[115] | Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262[3] | |
Heinz Bretnütz | Germany | Luftwaffe | 37[116] | ||
Waldemar Radener | Germany | Luftwaffe | 37[117] | ||
Sergey Luganski | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 37 | ||
Wilhelm Beier | Germany | Luftwaffe | 36[107] | Night fighter ace | |
Helmut Bergmann † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 36[107] | Night fighter ace | |
Walter Ehle † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 36[107] | Night fighter ace | |
Friedrich Körner | Germany | Luftwaffe | 36[118] | ||
Maximilian Volke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 36[52] | ||
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[107] | Night fighter ace | |
Wilhelm Johnen | Germany | Luftwaffe | 34[107] | Night fighter ace | |
Klaus Bretschneider | Germany | Luftwaffe | 34[116] | incl. 14 as Night fighter ace | |
Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 34 | |||
David McCampbell | United States | U.S. Navy | 34[109] | Top U.S. Navy ace, Ace in a day on two different occasions | |
Toshio Ota † | Japan | Imperial Japanese Navy | 34 | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 33[107] | Night fighter ace | ||
Josef Kociok † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 33[107] | Night fighter ace | |
Heinz Knoke | Germany | Luftwaffe | 33[57] | ||
Ernst-Wilhelm Modrow | Germany | Luftwaffe | 33[107] | possibly 34[119] | Night fighter ace |
Ivan Stepanenko | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 33 | ||
Pierre Clostermann | France | Free French Air Force, Royal Air Force | 33[108] | Top French ace | |
Germany | Luftwaffe | 33 | |||
Lauri Nissinen † | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 32.5 | ||
Werner Husemann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 32[107] | 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[44] | ||
Japan | Imperial Japanese Navy | 32 | |||
Adolph 'Sailor' Malan | South Africa | Royal Air Force | 32 | ||
George F. "Buzz" Beurling | Canada | Royal Air Force | 31.5[108] | Top Canadian ace of WWII | |
Hans-Karl Mayer † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 31[120] | +8 in Spanish Civil War | Ace in each of two wars |
Paul-Hubert Rauh | Germany | Luftwaffe | 31[107] | Night fighter ace | |
Karl-Heinz Scherfling † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 31+[107] | Night fighter ace | |
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[107] | Night fighter ace | |
Germany | Luftwaffe | 30[101] | |||
Karl-Heinz Langer | Germany | Luftwaffe | 30[121] | ||
Robert Roland Stanford Tuck | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 30 | ||
William Vale | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 30 | +6 shared | |
Germany | Luftwaffe | 30[33] | |||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 30[122] | |||
Friedrich-Karl "Nasen" Müller | Germany | Luftwaffe | 30[123] | Night fighter ace | |
Erich Woitke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 30 | +4 in Spanish Civil War | |
Kaneyoshi Mutoh † | Japan | Imperial Japanese Navy | 30 | ||
Japan | Imperial Japanese Army | 30 | |||
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 29.5 | |||
Paul Szameitat † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 29[123] | Night fighter ace | |
Germany | Luftwaffe | 29[33] | Night fighter ace | ||
Heinrich Wohlers † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 29[123] | Night fighter ace | |
Bob Braham | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 29[108] | Night fighter ace | |
Clive Caldwell | Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 28.5[108] | Top Australian ace of WWII. Top P-40 ace. Ace in a day. | |
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 28.5 | |||
Izidor Kovárik | Slovak Republic | Slovak Air Force | 28 | possibly 29 | |
Anton Benning † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 28[123] | Night fighter ace | |
Max Bucholz | Germany | Luftwaffe | 28[46] | Ace in a day | |
Ernst Andres † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 28 | ||
Anton Benning | Germany | Luftwaffe | 28[124] | ||
Hans-Heinrich Koenig † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 28[125] | ||
Yasuhiko Kuroe | Japan | Imperial Japanese Army | 28 | +2 in Actions in Mongolia | 51 claimed |
"Paddy" Finucane † | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 28 | Top Irish ace | |
"Ginger" Lacey | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 28[108] | ||
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[126] | ||
Colin Falkland Gray | New Zealand | Royal Air Force | 27.5 | Top New Zealand ace | |
Germany | Luftwaffe | 27+[46] | |||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 27[33] | |||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 27[46] | |||
Neville Duke | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 27 | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 27 | |||
Wilhelm Mayer † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 27[127] | ||
Lothar Linke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 27[128] | ||
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[46] | ||
Franz Stigler | Germany | Luftwaffe | 26[24] | ||
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 26 | |||
Japan | Imperial Japanese Navy | 26 | |||
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 |
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 † | Nazi Germany/ Brazil | Luftwaffe | 25[129] | ||
Lance C. Wade † | United States | Royal Air Force | 25[130] | Top US ace in RAF | |
Germany | Luftwaffe | 25 | |||
Wolfgang Lippert † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 25[131] | +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 | ||
† | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 25 | ||
Frank Reginald Carey | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 25 | ||
Josef Fözö | Germany | Luftwaffe | 24[132] | +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[129] | +1 in Spanish Civil War | |
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[133] | ||
Peter Spoden | Germany | Luftwaffe | 23[67] | Night fighter ace | |
Fritz Müller | Germany | Luftwaffe | 23[134] | Jet ace with 6 victories in Me 262[3] | |
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[108] | All 23 kills scored after losing both legs in a 1931 aircraft crash | |
Eugene A. Valencia | United States | U.S. Navy | 23[109] | ||
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 23 | |||
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 23 | |||
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 22.5 | |||
David C. Schilling | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 22.5[109] | (+10.5 ground kills) | |
Rolf Pingel | Germany | Luftwaffe | 22[103] | +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 | ||
† | Germany | Luftwaffe | 22[135] | ||
Canada | Royal Canadian Air Force | 22 | |||
Alan Christopher Deere | New Zealand | Royal Air Force | 22[108] | ||
Gerald R. Johnson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 22[109] | ||
Neel E. Kearby † | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 22 | ||
Jay T. Robbins | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 22 | ||
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) | |
Donald Kingaby | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 21 | +2 shared | |
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[108] | Top RAF night fighter ace | |
Archie McKellar † | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 21[136] | Ace in a day | |
France | Royal Air Force | 21[108] | |||
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[137] | ||
John J. Voll | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 21[109] | ||
Kenneth A. Walsh | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 21[138] | ||
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+[122] | Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262[3] | |
Donald N. Aldrich | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 20[138] | ||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 20 | |||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 20 | |||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 20 | +3 in Spanish Civil War | ||
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[139] | ||
Robert B. Westbrook † | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 20 | ||
Vernon Crompton Woodward | Canada | Royal Air Force | 20 | ||
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 19.5 | |||
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 19.5 | |||
Winfried Schmidt | Germany | Luftwaffe | 19[88] | ||
Geoffrey Allard | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 19 | +5 shared | |
Germany | Luftwaffe | 19[135] | |||
† | Germany | Luftwaffe | 19[75] | Night fighter ace | |
Germany | Luftwaffe | 19[140] | |||
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 | ||
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 19 | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 19 | |||
Stanisław Skalski | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 18.91 | Top Polish ace | |
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 | ||
Japan | Imperial Japanese Army | 18+ | |||
† | 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 | |
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) | |
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[113] | +2 Spanish Civil War | |
Slovak Republic | Slovak Air Force | 17 | |||
Italy/ Italian Social Republic | Regia Aeronautica, Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana | 17 | |||
Cobber 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) | |
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[27] | ||
Tony Lovell | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 16 | +6 shared (+1 ground kill) | |
Eugeniusz Horbaczewski | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 16.5 | ||
† | Canada | Royal Canadian Air Force | 16.5 | (+2 ground kills) | |
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 16.5 | |||
James MacLachlan | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 16.5 | 7.5 after the amputation of his left arm | |
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 | ||
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) |
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 | |
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 15 | |||
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 | ||
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 | ||
Nazi 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 | ||
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) | |
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 14.5 | |||
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. | |
Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 14 | |||
Svein Heglund | Norway | Royal Air Force | 14 | ||
Sophus Baagoe † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 14[141] | ||
Günther Wegmann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 14[52] | Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262[3] | |
Slovak Republic | Slovak Air Force | 14 | |||
Bruce W. Carr | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | (+10 ground kills) | |
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | |||
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 | ||
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 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | |||
John L. Wirth | United States | U.S. Navy | 14 | ||
Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 14 | |||
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 | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 13.5 | |||
Pekka Kokko | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 13.5 | ||
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 13.5 | |||
Roger W. Mehle | United States | U.S. Navy | 13.5 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13.5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13.3 | Ace in a day | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | |||
United States | Chinese Nationalist Air Force | 13 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | |||
Jan Zumbach | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 13 | ||
Croatia | Croatian Air Force | 13 | |||
Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 13 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 13 | |||
James N. Cupp | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 13 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | |||
Robert E. Galer | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 13 | ||
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 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | (+2 ground kills) | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | (+3 ground kills) | ||
Robert Neale | United States | American Volunteer Group | 13 | (+2.5 ground kills) | |
Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 13 | |||
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 | ||
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 13 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 13 | |||
Edward O. Shaw † | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 13 | ||
United Kingdom | Fleet Air Arm | 13 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 13 | |||
Robert Lee Scott, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | ||
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 | ||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 13 | |||
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 | ||
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 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12.5 | +2 in Korean War | ||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 12.5 | |||
United States | Royal Canadian Air Force | 12.5 | |||
Irving Farmer Kennedy | Canada | Royal Canadian Air Force | 12.5 | ||
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 12.5 | |||
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 12.5 | |||
† | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 12.5 | ||
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 12.5 | |||
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) | |
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 | |
Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 12 | |||
Croatia | Croatian Air Force | 12 | |||
John A. Kent | Canada | Royal Air Force | 12 | (+1 ground kill) | |
Croatia | Croatian Air Force | 12 | |||
Croatia | Croatian Air Force | 12 | |||
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 | ||
Slovak Republic | Slovak Air Force | 12 | possibly 13 | ||
Slovak Republic | Slovak Air Force | 12 | |||
Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 12 | |||
Charles Crombie | Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 12 | ||
Peter Turnbull | Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 12 | ||
Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 12 | |||
Slovak Republic | Slovak Air Force | 12 | |||
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 12 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | |||
Levi R. Chase | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 12 | |||
Nicholas Gresham Cooke † | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 12 | Ace in a day | |
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | |||
Loren D. Everton | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 12 | ||
Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 12 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | (+2.5 ground kills) | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 12 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 12 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | (+2.5 ground kills) | ||
† | Germany | Luftwaffe | 12 | Night fighter ace | |
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | |||
† | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 12 | Ace in a day, turret gunner on a two-man fighter plane | |
United States | U.S. Navy | 12 | |||
Pierce McKennon | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | (+9.7 ground kills) | |
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | |||
† | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 12 | ||
† | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 12 | ||
František Peřina | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 12 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | (+5 ground kills) | ||
Jack Rae | New Zealand | Royal New Zealand Air Force | 12[142] | ||
Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 12 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | (+2 ground kills) | ||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 12 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 12 | |||
Norman C. Skogstad | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | |||
Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 12 | |||
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) | |
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | |||
Nicholas Megura | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11.84 | (+3.8 ground kills) | |
United States | U.S. Navy | 11.5 | |||
James A. Clark, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11.5 | (+4.5 ground kills) | |
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11.5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11.5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11.5 | (+2 ground kills) | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11.5 | (+.5 ground kill) | ||
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 | ||
Basilios Michael Vassilios "Vass" Vassiliades | Greece | Royal Air Force | 11.5 | ||
/ | China | Chinese Nationalist Air Force | 11.3 | Top Chinese ace | |
Howard Mayers | Australia | Royal Air Force | 11.3 | ||
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 | |
Australia | Royal Air Force | 11 | |||
Albin Starc | Croatia | Croatian Air Force | 11 | ||
Croatia | Croatian Air Force | 11 | |||
Croatia | Croatian Air Force | 11 | |||
Harold W. Bauer † | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 11 | ||
John T. Blackburn | United States | U.S. Navy | 11 | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 11 | |||
Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 11 | |||
Geoff Fisken | New Zealand | Royal New Zealand Air Force | 11 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 11 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | |||
United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 11 | Ace in a day | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 11 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | |||
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 11 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | |||
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 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | |||
Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 11 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 11 | |||
Alexei Petrovich Maresiev | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 11 | 3 victories after losing his legs | |
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | |||
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 | |
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 11 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 11 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 11 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | possibly just 8 | ||
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 | ||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 11 | |||
Murray Shubin | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | ||
Otto Smik | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 11 | (+3 V-1 flying bombs) | |
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | |||
Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 11 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 11 | |||
Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 11 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 11 | |||
Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 11 | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 11 | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 11 | |||
United States | American Volunteer Group | 10.75 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10.75 | |||
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 | |
United States | U.S. Navy | 10.5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10.5 | |||
Jack E. Conger | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 10.5 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10.5 | (+.5 ground kill) | ||
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) |
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 10.5 | |||
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 10.5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10.5 | (+13 ground kills) | ||
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 10.5 | |||
United States | American Volunteer Group | 10.5 | |||
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 | |
United States | U.S. Navy | 10.5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10.5 | (+1.5 ground kills) | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 10.5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 10.4 | |||
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 | ||
United States | American Volunteer Group | 10¼ | |||
Stanley W. Vejtasa | United States | U.S. Navy | 10¼ | Ace in a day | |
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 | ||
Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 10 | |||
Frank B. Baldwin | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 10 | ||
Minden Blake | New Zealand | Royal Air Force | 10[143] | ||
Wayne K. Blickenstaff | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | ||
Archie Boyd | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 10 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 10 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 10 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
† | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 10 | +6 shared | |
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
Iro Ilk | Germany | Luftwaffe | 10[144] | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | (+6 ground kills) | ||
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 10 | |||
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 10 | |||
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 10 | |||
Robert Little † | United States | American Volunteer Group | 10 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 10 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 10 | |||
Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 10 | (+2 V-1 flying bombs) | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 10 | |||
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 | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 10 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 10 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 10 | |||
Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 10 | +1 in Spanish Civil War | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
Josef Stehlík | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 10 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 10 | |||
Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 10 | +1 in Spanish Civil War | ||
Adriano Visconti | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 10 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 10 | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 10 | |||
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) | |
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 .5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 9 .5 | |||
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 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 .5 | (+.5 ground kill) | ||
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+[145] | Also a top ground attack pilot, with 2000+ targets destroyed | |
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | (+6.5 ground kills) | ||
Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 9 | |||
Lee "Buddy" Archer | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | (+6 ground kills) Only African-American ace in WWII | |
Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 9 | |||
Edgar R. Bassett † | United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | (+6 ground kills) | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
† | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 9 | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
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[146] | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | possibly just 8 | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
Louis Edward Curdes | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Jefferson J. DeBlanc | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 9 | Ace in a day | |
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Charles H. Dyson | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 9 | Ace in a day (six minutes) | |
United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
Robert A. Elder | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | (+2 ground kills) | |
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Jan Falkowski | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 9 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Edward L. Feightner | United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
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 | |
United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | (+6 ground kills) | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 9 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Christopher L. Magee | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 9 | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 9 | |||
United States | American Volunteer Group; U.S. Marine Corps | 9 | victories with 2 air forces | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
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 | |
United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Robert T. Smith | United States | American Volunteer Group | 9 | ||
Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 9 | + 1 in Spanish Civil War | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
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 | |
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Isamu Kashiide | Japan | Imperial Japanese Army | 9 | claims 26 B-29s and 7 Soviet fighters | |
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 9 | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 9 | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 9 | |||
Andrei Radulescu | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 9 | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8.75 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8.5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8.5 | |||
Stanisław Brzeski | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 8.5 | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8.5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8.5 | |||
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 | |
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8.5 | (+3 ground kills) | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8.5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8.5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8.5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8.5 | |||
Zdzisław Henneberg † | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 8.5 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8.5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8.5 | (+2 ground kills) | ||
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 | ||
United States | American Volunteer Group | 8.5 | |||
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 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8.5 | |||
Sanford K. Moats | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8.5 | ||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 8.5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8.5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8.5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8.5 | |||
Dallas Schmidt | Canada | Royal Canadian Air Force | 8.5 | ||
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 | ||
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+[147] | Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262[3] | |
Erich Büttner | Germany | Luftwaffe | 8[3] | Jet ace with all victories in Me 262 | |
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | possibly just 7 | ||
John R. Alison | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Frederick A. Bardshar | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | possibly just 6 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | (+3 ground kills) | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | (+13 ground kills) | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
William A. Gardner | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | possibly just 7 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | possibly just 5 (+3 ground kills) | ||
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 | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | |||
United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 8 | |||
Jack M. Ilfrey | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | (+5.5 ground kills) | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | (+17 ground kills) | ||
† | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 8 | ||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | |||
William N. Leonard | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | possibly just 7 | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
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 | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Robert R. Rowland | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
United States | American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | victories with 2 air forces | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | possibly 9 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
William A. Shomo | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Gordon Arthur Stanley | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
Philip Edward Tovrea Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | ||
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 | |
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | (+3 ground kills) | ||
Hans-Dieter Weihs | Germany | Luftwaffe | 8[3] | 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 | |
Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 8 | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 8 | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 8 | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 8 | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 8 | |||
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 | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 7.5 | |||
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[3] | Jet ace with all victories in Me 262 | |
Georg Christl | Germany | Luftwaffe | 7[12] | ||
William Y. Anderson | Sweden | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | (+1 V-1 flying bomb) | |
Karl-Heinz Becker | Germany | Luftwaffe | 7[3] | Jet ace with all victories in Me 262 | |
† | 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 | ||
/ | 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 | ||
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) | |
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 7 | |||
Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 7 | |||
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[3] | Jet ace with all victories in Me 262 | |
Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 7 | |||
† | Germany | Luftwaffe | 7 | Night fighter ace | |
Hungary | Luftwaffe | 7 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | (+4 ground kills) | ||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 7 | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 7 | |||
Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 7 | |||
Edward "Butch" O'Hare † | United States | U.S. Navy | 7 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | |||
Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 7 | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 7 | |||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 7 | Night fighter ace | ||
Arval J. Roberson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | (+1 ground kill) | |
Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 7 | |||
Ernest Shipman | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | ||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 7 | |||
† | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 7 | ||
Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 7 | |||
† | New Zealand | Royal Air Force | 7 | (+28 v1 flying bombs and 10 ground kills) | |
Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 7 | |||
Sydney S. Woods | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | ||
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 | ||
Howard Peter Blatchford † | Canada | Royal Canadian Air Force | 6.5 | ||
Lloyd Chadburn † | Canada | Royal Canadian Air Force | 6.5 | ||
Canada | Royal Canadian Air Force | 6.5 | +2 in Korean War | ||
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 Air Force | 6.33 | ||
Horia Agarici | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 6 | ||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 6 | |||
Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 6 | +5 in Spanish Civil War | Ace in each of two wars | |
Livio Bassi | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 6 | ||
† | Germany | Luftwaffe | 6 | Night fighter ace | |
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 | |
Greece | Hellenic Air Force | 6 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | (+3 V-1 flying bombs) | ||
František Doležal | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 6 | ||
Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 6 | |||
Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 6 | |||
Guido Fibbia | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 6 | +3 in Spanish Civil War | |
Mexico | Mexican Air Force | 6 | Also known as . | ||
† | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | |||
Clayton Kelly Gross | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | 355th FS, 354th FG, ETO | |
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | (+6 ground kills) | ||
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 | ||
† | Germany | Luftwaffe | 6[118] | ||
† | Germany | Luftwaffe | 6[148] | Night fighter ace | |
United States | U.S. Navy | 6 | |||
Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | |||
Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | |||
Raymond Lallemant | Belgium | Royal Air Force | 6 | ||
† | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | ||
Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | |||
Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 6 | |||
† | 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[149] | +32 in World War I | Ace in each of two wars |
Edward Cobb Outlaw | United States | U.S. Navy | 6 | Ace in a day | |
† | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | ||
Ludwik Witold Paszkiewicz | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 6 | ||
Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 6 | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 6 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 6 | |||
W. R. Scheible | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | (+3 ground Kills) | |
Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 6 | |||
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) | |
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 6 | |||
James Henry Whalen † | Canada | Royal Canadian Air Force | 6 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | (+2 ground kills) | ||
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 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5.5 | (+15 ground kills) | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5.83 | (+5.5 ground kills) | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5.54 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5.5 | |||
Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 5.5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5.5 | (+2 ground kills) | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
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) | |
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Germany | Luftwaffe | 5 | |||
Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
Joseph Heim | Germany | Luftwaffe | 5[3] | Jet ace with all victories in Me 262 | |
Alfred Schreiber | Germany | Luftwaffe | 5[3] | Jet ace – first ever confirmed – with all victories in Me 262 | |
Ulrich Steinhilper | Germany | Luftwaffe | 5[37] | ||
Tony Jonsson | Iceland | Royal Air Force | 5 | ||
Kenneth Tait † | New Zealand | Royal Air Force | 5[150] | plus a half share in one aircraft destroyed (with Ian Gleed) | |
Finland | Finnish Air Force | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | (+9 ground kills) | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Abner M. Aust | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Rex T. Barber | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
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 |
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
† | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | American Volunteer Group | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | +3 in Korean War | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | +4 in Korean War | ||
Harold E. Comstock | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
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) | |
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
George Della | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Antonio Dini † | New Zealand | Royal Air Force | 5[151] | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Hugh M. Elwood | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Paul J. Fontana | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Kenneth M. Ford | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
† | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 5 | ||
Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Noel Gayler | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Giorgio Graffer | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | Ace in a day | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Sándor Hautzinger | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
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 | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | (+6 probables) | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | American Volunteer Group | 5 | |||
Herbert N. Houck | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Evan M. Johnson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | (+ 5.5 ground kills) | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Charles Kendrick | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Marion F. Kirby | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 5 | |||
Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Thomas G. Lanphier | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | American Volunteer Group | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | +4 in Korean War | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | +1 in Korean War | ||
Greece | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
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 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
John A. Mackay | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Luigi Mariotti | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | (+6 ground kills) | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | American Volunteer Group | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | (+6 ground kills) | ||
Frederick H. Michaelis | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Marinos Mitralexis | Greece | Royal Hellenic Air Force | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Robert H. Moore | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Edwin L. Olander | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | 347th FG, 342nd Fighter Squadron, PTO | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
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 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Oscar F. Perdomo | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | Ace in a day | |
United States | American Volunteer Group | 5 | |||
Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | victories with 2 air forces | ||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
James J. Southerland | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | ||
Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Charles P. Sullivan | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | (+5 ground kills) | ||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
Harrison B. Tordoff | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
John E. Vogt | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | (+7.5 ground kills) | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Gregory J. Weissenberger | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
George L. Wrenn | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | Royal Air Force; U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | victories with 2 air forces | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | |||
Michael R. Yunck | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | ||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | |||
Vintilă Brătianu | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | ||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | |||
Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | |||
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 | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | Only A-36 Ace in the History | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | First Three kill with 17th PS in the PTO, other three with 363rd FS in ETO | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | 364th Fighter Squadron, ETO | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7.5 | Acting commanding officer of 364th Fighter Group | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | (+ 3 on the Ground) Crewshaw shot down 4 Fw190 in one day with three working MG | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | (+5.25 damage) 531st Fighter Squadron, PTO | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | DFC, 530th Fighter Squadron, CBI | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | 357th FG, 362nd Fighter Squadron, ETO | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | 52nd FG, 5th Fighter Squadron, ETO | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | 4th FG, 334th Fighter Squadron, ETO | ||
United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | 49th FG, 9th Fighter Squadron, PTO |
Notes[]
- ^ By 1945, combat experienced Japanese airmen were often detailed to provide fighter escort for newer inexperienced Kamikazi pilots en route to their targets in the Pacific
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