List of World War II aces credited with 11–49 victories
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 the pilot flew and the planes they flew against, how long they served, their opportunity to meet the enemy in the air (Allied to Axis disproportion), whether they were the formation's leader or a wingman, the standards their air service brought to the awarding of victory credits, et cetera.
Aces
This background, along with the symbol "†", indicates that the pilot was killed in action, missing in action, died of wounds, or was killed in a flying accident during World War II.
Name | Country | Service(s) | Aerial victories | Other aerial victories | Notes |
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Rudolf Ehrenberger † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 49[1] | ||
Reinhard Kollak | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 49[2] | Night fighter ace | |
Klaus Quaet-Faslem † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 49[3] | ||
Alexander Pokryshkin | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 49[4] | including 4 shared victories | |
Amet-khan Sultan | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 49[5] | including 19 shared victories | |
Walter Borchers † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 48+[2] | possibly 59[6] | Night fighter ace |
Heinz Arnold † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 48[7] | Jet ace with 7 victories in Me 262[8] | |
Friedrich Beckh † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 48[9] | ||
Paul Gildner † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 48[2] | Night fighter ace | |
Johannes Hager | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 48[2] | Night fighter ace | |
Werner Stumpf † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 48[10] | ||
Heinz-Gerhard Vogt † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 48[11] | ||
Günter Fink † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 48[12] | ||
Fritz Karch | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 47[13] | ||
Ernst-Georg Drünkler | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 47[14] | Night fighter ace | |
Heinz Golinski † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 47[15] | ||
Eckhard Hübner † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 47[16] | ||
Herbert Kutscha | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 47[17] | ||
Erich Schmidt † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 47[18] | ||
Alexandru Şerbănescu † | ![]() | Royal Romanian Air Force | 47[19] | ||
Alexander Koldunov | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 47[20] | including 1 shared victory | |
Nikolai Skomorokhov | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 47[21] | including 3 shared victories | |
Arseny Vorozheykin | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 46[22] | +6 in Battles of Khalkhin Gol | Ace in each of two wars (though Khalkhin Gol was undeclared) |
Andrey Borovykh | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 46[23] | including 17 shared victories | |
Hans-Heinz Augenstein | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 46[2] | Night fighter ace | |
Ludwig Becker † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 46[2] | Night fighter ace | |
Wolfgang Böwing-Treuding † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 46[24] | ||
Erwin Laskowski | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 46[25] | ||
Karl Rammelt | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 46[26] | ||
Franz Schulte | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 46[27] | ||
Paul Semrau † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 46[2] | Night fighter ace | |
Hugo Dahmer | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 45[28] | ||
Ernst Düllberg | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 45[29] | Credited with 9 heavy bombers shot down[30] | |
Rudolf Frank † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 45[2] | Night fighter ace | |
Alois Lechner † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 45[31] | Night fighter ace | |
Johann Schmid † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 45[32] | ||
Karl Schnörrer | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 45[33] | Jet ace with 11 victories in Me 262[8] Credited with 9 heavy bombers shot down[34] | |
Gerhard Schöpfel | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 45[35] | ||
Georg Seidel | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 45[36] | ||
Vladimir Serov † | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 45[37] | including 6 shared victories | |
Hans Stollnberger | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 45[38] | ||
Alfred Surau | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 45[10] | ||
Kurt Tangermann | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 45[39] | ||
Otto Vinzent | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 45[40] | ||
Ion Milu | ![]() | Royal Romanian Air Force | 45 | ||
Urho Lehtovaara | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 44.5[41] | ||
Manfred Eberwein | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 44+[42] | ||
Mato Dukovac | ![]() | Croatian Air Force | 44[43] | Top Croatian ace | |
Oiva Tuominen | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 44[41] | ||
Hans Frese | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 44[44] | ||
Karl-Wilhelm Hofmann † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 44[45] | ||
Reinhold Knacke † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 44[2] | Night fighter ace | |
Wilhelm Steinmann | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 44[46] | ||
Walther Wever † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 44[47] | ||
Karl Borris | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 43[48] | ||
Ludwig Franzisket | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 43[49] | ||
Rudolf Klemm | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 43[50] | ||
Hubert Mütherich | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 43[51] | ||
Josef Pöhs † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 43[52] | ||
Daniel Vizanty | ![]() | Royal Romanian Air Force | 43 | ||
Vladimir Lavrinenkov | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 43[53] | including 7 shared victories | |
Aleksey Ryazanov | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 43[54] | including 12 shared victories | |
Fyodor Arkhipenko | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 43[55] | including 15 shared victories | |
Walter Brandt | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 42[56] | ||
Olli Puhakka | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 42[41] | ||
Norbert Hannig | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 42[57] | ||
Jürgen Brocke † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 42[58] | ||
Tudor Greceanu | ![]() | Royal Romanian Air Force | 42 | ||
Rudolf Schmidt | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 42[59] | ||
Herbert Schramm † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 42[60] | ||
Robert Olejnik | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 42[61] | ||
Nikolai Krasnov † | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 42[62] | including 1 shared victory | |
Richard Quante † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 41[63] | ||
Werner Baake | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 41[2] | Night fighter ace | |
Leopold Fellerer | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 41[2] | Night fighter ace | |
Ludwig Meister | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 41[64] | Night fighter ace | |
Ernst Börngen | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 41[65] | ||
Sergey Morgunov | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 41[66] | ||
Mikhail Pivovarov | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 41[67] | including 1 shared victory | |
Ivan Stepanenko | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 41[68] | including 9 shared victories | |
Andrey Baklan | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 41[69] | including 21 shared victories | |
Marmaduke 'Pat' Pattle † | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 41[70] | 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 † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 40[71] | +7 in Spanish Civil War | Ace in each of two wars (+13 ground kills WWII) |
Richard I. Bong † | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 40[72] | Top U.S. ace | |
Vitaly Popkov | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 40[73] | ||
Ivan Babak | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 40[74] | including 5 shared victories | |
Pyotr Gnido | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 40[75] | including 6 shared victories | |
Mikhail Komelkov | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 40[76] | including 7 shared victories | |
Wolf-Dietrich Huy | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 40[77] | ||
Hermann Neuhoff | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 40[78] | ||
Günter Steinhausen † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 40[46] | ||
Eckart-Wilhelm von Bonin | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 39[64] | Night fighter ace | |
Dietrich Schmidt | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 39[64] | possibly 43[79] | Night fighter ace |
Satoru Anabuki | ![]() | Imperial Japanese Army | 39 | 51 claimed | |
Iyozo Fujita | ![]() | Imperial Japanese Navy | 39 | ||
Peter Bremer | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 38[56] | ||
Hans Dortenmann | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 38[14] | ||
James Edgar "Johnnie" Johnson | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 38[70] | Top Spitfire Ace. | |
Cvitan Galić † | ![]() | Croatian Air Force | 38 | ||
Gerhard Koall † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 38[80] | ||
Stefan Litjens | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 38[81] | ||
Detlev Rohwer † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 38[82] | ||
Eduard Tratt † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 38[83] | ||
Thomas B. McGuire † | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 38[72] | ||
Günther Bahr | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 39[64] | Night fighter ace | |
Heinz Bretnütz | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 37[84] | ||
Karl-Heinz Leesmann † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 37[85] | ||
Sergey Luganski | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 37 | ||
Klaus Neumann | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 37[86] | Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262[8] | |
Waldemar Radener | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 37[87] | Credited with 11 heavy bombers shot down[88] | |
Wilhelm Beier | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 36[64] | Night fighter ace | |
Helmut Bergmann † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 36[64] | Night fighter ace | |
Walter Ehle † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 36[64] | Night fighter ace | |
Friedrich Körner | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 36[89] | ||
Maximilian Volke † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 36[90] | ||
Olavi Puro | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 36[41] | ||
Nils Katajainen | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 35.5[41] | ||
Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 35[91] | ||
Bruno Stolle | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 35[92] | ||
Aleksey Alelyukhin | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 34[93] | including 6 shared victories | |
Vladimir Bobrov | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 34[94] | +13 and 4 shared in Spanish Civil War | including 11 shared victories |
Klaus Bretschneider | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 34[84] | incl. 14 as Night fighter ace | |
Heinz-Horst Hißbach † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 34[64] | Night fighter ace | |
Wilhelm Johnen | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 34[64] | Night fighter ace | |
Karl Kennel | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 34[95] | ||
David McCampbell | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 34[72] | Top U.S. Navy ace, Ace in a day on two different occasions | |
Johannes Naumann | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 34[96] | ||
Toshio Ota † | ![]() | Imperial Japanese Navy | 34 | ||
Heinz-Martin Hadeball | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 33[64] | Night fighter ace | |
Josef Kociok † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 33[64] | Night fighter ace | |
Heinz Knoke | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 33[97] | ||
Ernst-Wilhelm Modrow | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 33[64] | possibly 34[98] | Night fighter ace |
Pierre Clostermann | ![]() | Free French Air Force; Royal Air Force | 33[70] | Top French ace | |
Erich Brunotte | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 33 | ||
Günther Bleckmann † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 33[99] | ||
Lauri Nissinen † | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 32.5[41] | ||
Werner Husemann | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 32[64] | Night fighter ace | |
Ján Režňák | ![]() | Slovak Air Force | 32 | Top Slovak ace, possibly 35 victories | |
Kyösti Karhila | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 32[41] | ||
Hugo Frey † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 32[49] | Credited with 25 heavy bombers shot down[100] | |
Kazuo Sugino | ![]() | Imperial Japanese Navy | 32 | ||
Adolph 'Sailor' Malan | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 32 | ||
George F. "Buzz" Beurling | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 31.5[70] | Top Canadian ace of WWII | |
Hans-Karl Mayer † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 31[101] | +8 in Spanish Civil War | Ace in each of two wars |
Paul-Hubert Rauh | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 31[64] | Night fighter ace | |
Karl-Heinz Scherfling † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 31+[64] | Night fighter ace | |
Alexandr Kumanichkin | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 31 | ||
Jorma Karhunen | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 31[41] | ||
Dezső Szentgyörgyi | ![]() | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 30.5 | Top Hungarian ace | |
Pavel Golovachev | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 30+ | ||
Gerhard Friedrich † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 30[64] | Night fighter ace | |
Paul Brandt | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 30[48] | ||
Karl-Heinz Langer | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 30[102] | ||
Robert Roland Stanford Tuck | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 30 | ||
William Vale | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 30 | +6 shared | |
Franz Blazytko | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 30[99] | ||
Erich Bartz | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 30[103] | ||
Friedrich-Karl "Nasen" Müller | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 30[104] | Night fighter ace | |
Kaneyoshi Mutoh † | ![]() | Imperial Japanese Navy | 30 | ||
Ryotaro Jobou | ![]() | Imperial Japanese Army | 30 | ||
Emil Vesa | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 29.5[41] | ||
Rudolf Altendorff | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 29[105] | Night fighter ace | |
Günther Bertram | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 29[99] | Night fighter ace | |
Fritz Gromotka | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 29[106] | ||
Paul Szameitat † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 29[104] | Night fighter ace | |
Heinrich Wohlers † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 29[104] | Night fighter ace | |
Bob Braham | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 29[70] | Night fighter ace | |
Clive Caldwell | ![]() | Royal Australian Air Force | 28.5[70] | Top Australian ace of WWII. Top P-40 ace. Ace in a day. | |
Tapio Järvi | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 28.5[41] | ||
Izidor Kovárik | ![]() | Slovak Air Force | 28 | possibly 29 | |
Igor Kaberov | ![]() | Soviet Naval Aviation | 28[107] | including 18 shared victories | |
Max Bucholz | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 28[108] | Ace in a day | |
Ernst Andres † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 28 | ||
Anton Benning | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 28[109][104] | Night fighter ace | |
Hans-Heinrich Koenig † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 28[110] | ||
Yasuhiko Kuroe | ![]() | Imperial Japanese Army | 28 | +2 in Actions in Mongolia | 51 claimed |
"Paddy" Finucane † | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 28 | Top Irish ace | |
"Ginger" Lacey | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 28[70] | ||
Francis "Gabby" Gabreski | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | Imperial Japanese Navy | 28 | Includes unknown number of shared. Claims 64 total victories. | |
Willi Reschke | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 28[111] | Credited with 20 heavy bombers shot down[100] | |
Colin Falkland Gray | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 27.5 | Top New Zealand ace | |
Rudolf Busch | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 27+[108] | ||
Heinz Beyer | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 27[99] | ||
Alfred Burk | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 27[108] | ||
Neville Duke | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 27 | ||
Wilhelm Mayer † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 27[112] | ||
Lothar Linke † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 27[113] | Night fighter ace | |
Hans Remmer † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 27[114] | Credited with 8 heavy bombers shot down[34] | |
Constantin Rozariu | ![]() | Royal Romanian Air Force | 27 | ||
Robert S. Johnson | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 27 | ||
Charles H. MacDonald | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 27 | ||
Junichi Sasai † | ![]() | Imperial Japanese Navy | 27 | ||
Sadaaki Akamatsu | ![]() | Imperial Japanese Navy | 27 | ||
George E. Preddy, Jr. † | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 26.83 | Ace in a day (+5 ground kills) | |
Eric Lock † | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 26.5 | ||
Emil Clade | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 26[108] | ||
Franz Stigler | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 26[10] | ||
Peter Werfft | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 26[115] | Credited with 14 heavy bombers shot down[116] | |
Klaus Alakoski | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 26[41] | ||
Nobuo Ogiya | ![]() | Imperial Japanese Navy | 26 | ||
Ján Gerthoffer | ![]() | Slovak Air Force | 26 | ||
Joseph J. Foss | ![]() | U.S. Marine Corps | 26 | Top ace under USMC-only service | |
György Debrődy | ![]() | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 26 | ||
Lajos Tóth | ![]() | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 26 | ||
Russell Bannock | ![]() | Royal Canadian Air Force | 25.5 | includes 19 V-1 flying bombs | |
Egon Albrecht-Lemke † | ![]() ![]() | Luftwaffe | 25[117] | ||
Lance C. Wade † | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 25[118] | Top US ace in RAF | |
Ludwig Bellof | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 25 | ||
Wolfgang Lippert † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 25[119] | +5 in Spanish Civil War | Ace in each of two wars |
Robert M. Hanson † | ![]() | U.S. Marine Corps | 25 | ||
Boris Safonov † | ![]() | Soviet Naval Aviation | 25 | +14 shared | |
Naoshi Kanno | ![]() | Imperial Japanese Navy | 25 | ||
László Molnár † | ![]() | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 25 | ||
Frank Reginald Carey | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 25 | ||
Josef Fözö | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 24[120] | +3 in Spanish Civil War | |
John C. Meyer | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 24 | +2 in Korean War | (+13 ground kills) |
Walter Adolph † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 24[117] | +1 in Spanish Civil War | |
Ernst-Erich Hirschfeld † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 24[121] | Including 8 as a night fighter pilot[122] | |
Willy Unger | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 24[100] | Credited with 21 heavy bombers shot down[100] | |
Karl-Heinz Krahl † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 24[123] | ||
George Gilroy | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 24[124] | ||
Cecil E. Harris | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 24 | ||
Johannes Le Roux | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 23.5 | Generally credited with attacking & wounding Erwin Rommel in his staff car in Normandy on 17 July 1944 | |
Hans Autenrieth | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 23[105] | Night fighter ace | |
Horst Patuschka † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 23[125] | ||
Peter Spoden | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 23[126] | Night fighter ace | |
Fritz Müller | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 23[127] | Jet ace with 6 victories in Me 262[8] | |
Erich Woitke † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 23[128] | +4 in Spanish Civil War | |
Fred Ohr | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Corps | 23 | Top Korean-American ace, +17 Ground kills | |
Marcel Albert | ![]() | Free French Air Force; Royal Air Force | 23 | Probably 2 more | |
Douglas Bader | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 23[70] | All 23 kills scored after losing both legs in a 1931 aircraft crash | |
Eugene A. Valencia | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 23[72] | ||
Kalevi Tervo | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 23[41] | ||
Jorma Saarinen | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 23[41] | ||
Eero Kinnunen | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 22.5[41] | ||
David C. Schilling | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 22.5[72] | (+10.5 ground kills) | |
Helmut-Felix Bolz | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 22[24] | possibly 56,[129] +3 in Spanish Civil War | |
Rolf Pingel | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 22[52] | +6 Spanish Civil War | Ace in each of two wars |
Teresio Vittorio Martinoli † | ![]() | Regia Aeronautica | 22 | Top Italian ace of WWII; +14 shared | |
Leonardo Ferrulli † | ![]() | Regia Aeronautica | 22 | ||
Artur Beese † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 22[130] | ||
Alan Christopher Deere | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 22[70] | ||
Reinhold Eckardt † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 22[131] | Night fighter ace | |
Gerald R. Johnson | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 22[72] | ||
Neel E. Kearby † | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 22 | ||
Desmond McMullen | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 22 | ||
Jay T. Robbins | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 22 | ||
Ion Mucenica | ![]() | Royal Romanian Air Force | 22 | ||
Dominic S. Gentile | ![]() | Royal Air Force; U.S. Army Air Forces | 21.83 | victories with 2 air forces (+7 ground kills) | |
Rolf Kaldrack † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 21+[132] | +3 in Spanish Civil War | |
Donald Kingaby | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 21 | +2 shared | |
Antti Tani | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 21.5[41] | ||
William V. Crawford-Crompton | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 21.5 | ||
Raymond Brown Hesselyn | ![]() | Royal New Zealand Air Force | 21.5 | ||
Fred J. Christensen | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 21.5 | ||
Ray S. Wetmore | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 21+1⁄4 | (+2 ground kills) | |
Herbert Altner | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 21[105] | Night fighter ace | |
Branse Burbridge | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 21[70] | Top RAF night fighter ace | |
Archie McKellar † | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 21[133] | Ace in a day | |
Jean Demozay | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 21[70] | ||
Franco Lucchini † | ![]() | Regia Aeronautica | 21 | +6 in Spanish Civil War | Ace in each of two wars (+52 shared WWII) |
Franz von Werra † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 21[134] | ||
John J. Voll | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 21[72] | ||
Kenneth A. Walsh | ![]() | U.S. Marine Corps | 21[135] | ||
Paavo Myllylä | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 21[41] | ||
Walker 'Bud' Melville Mahurin | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 20.75 | +3.5 in Korean War | |
Helmut Baudach | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 20+[103] | Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262[8] | |
Donald N. Aldrich | ![]() | U.S. Marine Corps | 20[135] | ||
Rudolf Artner | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 20[7] | ||
Hans Berschwinger † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 20[131] | Night fighter ace | |
Ernst Richter | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 20 | 12 claimed at the Eastern front and 8 at the Western front | |
Cristea Chirvasuta | ![]() | Royal Romanian Air Force | 20 | ||
Michael Crossley | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 20 | ||
Thomas J. Lynch † | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 20 | ||
Evan Mackie | ![]() | Royal New Zealand Air Force | 20 | +3 shared | |
Henry Wallace McLeod † | ![]() | Royal Canadian Air Force | 20 | ||
Gerhard Sommer † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 20[136] | ||
Robert B. Westbrook † | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 20 | ||
Vernon Crompton Woodward | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 20 | ||
Viktor Pyötsiä | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 19.5[41] | ||
Väinö Suhonen | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 19.5[41] | ||
Geoffrey Allard | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 19 | +5 shared | |
Herbert Hallowes | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 19 | ||
Paul Becker | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 19[130] | ||
Erhard Peters † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 19[137] | Night fighter ace | |
Adolf Kalkum | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 19[132] | ||
Franco Bordoni | ![]() | Regia Aeronautica | 19 | 5 victories with biplane; +18 shared | |
Roy Dutton | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 19 | ||
Winfried Schmidt | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 19[18] | ||
W. G. G. Duncan Smith | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 19 | DSO*, DFC** | |
Luigi Gorrini | ![]() | Regia Aeronautica | 19 | 1 victory with biplane, 24 victories claimed | |
John "Cat's Eyes" Cunningham | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 19 | Night fighter ace | |
Glenn E. Duncan | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 19 | (+7.8 ground kills) | |
James Francis Edwards | ![]() | Royal Canadian Air Force | 19 | ||
Patrick D. Fleming | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 19 | ||
Cornelius N. Nooy | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 19 | ||
John Lucian Smith | ![]() | U.S. Marine Corps | 19 | ||
Alexander Vraciu | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 19 | Ace in a Day – 6 victories in one sortie 6/19/1944, averaged 10 rounds/gun/victory in that mission | |
Erik Teromaa | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 19[41] | ||
Constantin Lungulescu | ![]() | Royal Romanian Air Force | 19 | ||
Stanisław Skalski | ![]() | Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force | 18.91 | Top Polish ace, first Allied ace of the WW2 | |
Arthur J. Benko | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 18.5 | highest scoring American aerial gunner of the WW2 | |
Marion E. Carl | ![]() | U.S. Marine Corps | 18.5 | ||
Lauri Pekuri | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 18.5[41] | ||
Leonard K. Carson | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 18.5 | (+3.5 ground kills) | |
Glenn Eagleston | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 18.5 | +2 in Korean War | (+5 ground kills) |
Wilbur J. Thomas | ![]() | U.S. Marine Corps | 18.5 | ||
Lev Shestakov † | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 18[138] | +2 and 1 shared in Spanish Civil War | +9 shared |
Yukiyoshi Wakamatsu | ![]() | Imperial Japanese Army | 18+ | ||
Motomitsu Aoki † | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | Imperial Japanese Army | 18 | up to 30 claimed | |
Karel Kuttelwascher | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 18 | possibly 20 | |
Harry von Bülow-Bothkamp | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 18 | +6 in World War I | Ace in each of two wars |
Witold Urbanowicz | ![]() | Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force | 18 | ||
Walter C. Beckham | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 18 | ||
Adrian Boyd | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 18 | ||
Herschel H. Green | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 18 | ||
John C. "Pappy" Herbst | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 18 | ||
George Urquhart Hill | ![]() | Royal Canadian Air Force | 18 | ||
Albert Gerald Lewis | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 18 | Ace in a day | |
Miklós Kenyeres | ![]() | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 18 | ||
Alfred Marshall † | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 18 | ||
Charles H. Older | ![]() | American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces | 18 | Ace status on 2 different air forces | |
Takeo Tanimizu | ![]() | Imperial Japanese Navy | 18 | ||
Pierre Le Gloan † | ![]() | French Air Force; Free French Air Force | 18 | Ace in a day | |
Hubert Zemke | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 17.75 | ||
John B. England | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 17.5 | ||
Duane W. Beeson | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 17+1⁄3 | (+4.8 ground kills) | |
Jouko Huotari | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 17.5[41] | ||
John F. Thornell | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 17+1⁄4 | (+2 ground kills) | |
Henry William Brown | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 17.2 | (+14.5 ground kills) | |
Theodor Rossiwall | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 17[82] | +2 Spanish Civil War | |
Michael Arooth | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 17 | B-17 Flying Fortress tail gunner | |
Rudolf Božík | ![]() | Slovak Air Force | 17 | ||
Ugo Drago | ![]() ![]() | Regia Aeronautica; Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana | 17 | ||
Edgar Kain † | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 17 | First RAF fighter ace of WWII | |
William "Willie" McKnight | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 17 | ||
Josef Frantisek | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 17 | ||
Jorma Sarvanto | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 17[41] | Ace in a day (four minutes) | |
Yrjö Turkka | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 17[41] | ||
Gerald W. Johnson | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 17 | ||
James S. Varnell Jr. | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 17 | ||
Bolesław Gładych | ![]() | Polish Air Force; French Air Force; Royal Air Force; U.S. Army Air Forces | 17 | victories with 3 air forces | |
Keith Truscott | ![]() | Royal Australian Air Force | 17 | ||
Petrus Hugo | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 17 | ||
Stanley Orr | ![]() | Fleet Air Arm | 17 | ||
Paul Galland † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 17[139] | ||
John Villa | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 17 | ||
Tony Lovell | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 16 | +6 shared (+1 ground kill) | |
Eugeniusz Horbaczewski | ![]() | Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force | 16.5 | ||
William T. Klersy † | ![]() | Royal Canadian Air Force | 16.5 | (+2 ground kills) | |
Aulis Lumme | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 16.5[41] | ||
James MacLachlan | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 16.5 | 7.5 after the amputation of his left arm | |
Eero Riihikallio | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 16.5[41] | ||
Nigel Cullen | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 16.5 | ||
John T. Godfrey | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 16+1⁄3 | (+18 ground kills) | |
Adrian Goldsmith | ![]() | Royal Australian Air Force | 16+1⁄4 | ||
Clarence E. Anderson | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 16+1⁄4 | (+1 ground kill) | |
Les Clisby | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 16 | ||
Franjo Dzal | ![]() | Croatian Air Force | 16 | ||
Douglas Baker † | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 16 | ||
Eero Halonen | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 16[41] | ||
Bill Harris | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 16 | ||
Buck McNair | ![]() | Royal Canadian Air Force | 16 | ||
John Plagis | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 16 | Top Rhodesian ace | |
Michael Robinson † | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 16 | ||
James Sanders | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 16 | ||
Ioan Dicezare | ![]() | Royal Romanian Air Force | 16 | ||
Ira C. Kepford | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 16 | ||
Charles R. Stimpson | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 16 | ||
Stan Turner | ![]() | Royal Canadian Air Force | 16 | ||
William T. Whisner, Jr. | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 16 | +5.5 in Korean War | Ace in each of two wars (+3.5 ground kills WWII) |
George Welch | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 16 | ||
Edmond Marin la Meslée † | ![]() | French Air Force | 16 | ||
Mario Visintini | ![]() | Regia Aeronautica | 16 | +1 in Spanish Civil War | Top Biplane ace of WWII (+32 ground kills) |
Vasile Gavriliu | ![]() | Royal Romanian Air Force | 16 | ||
Ernest Mason | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 15+ | +2 shared | |
John Lloyd Waddy | ![]() | Royal Australian Air Force | 15.5 | ||
Donald M. Beerbower | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15.5 | ||
Brian Carbury | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 15.5 | Ace in a day | |
Edward F. Charles | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 15.5 | ||
Richard A. Peterson | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15.5 | (+3.5 ground kills) | |
James E. Swett | ![]() | U.S. Marine Corps | 15.5 | Ace in a day | |
David Lee "Tex" Hill | ![]() | American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces | 15+1⁄4 | Ace status on 2 different air forces | |
Mark Henry Brown † | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 15 | +4 shared | First Canadian ace of WWII |
Semyon Bychkov | ![]() ![]() | Soviet Air Force Luftwaffe | 15[140] | including 5 shared victories. Taken as prisoner and served in Luftwaffe | |
Martti Alho | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 15[41] | ||
Ljudevit Bencetic | ![]() | Croatian Air Force | 15 | ||
Jack T. Bradley | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15 | ||
Samuel J. Brown | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15 | ||
Edward "Porky" Cragg | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15 | ||
František Cyprich | ![]() | Slovak Air Force | 15 | possibly 18 | |
Kenneth H. Dahlberg | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15 | ||
Robert Francis Thomas "Bob" Doe | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 15 | Includes two shared. One more probable. | |
William D. Dunham | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15 | ||
Robert W. Foy | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15 | ||
John "Jack" Frost † | ![]() | South African Air Force | 15 | ||
Raymond Harries | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 15 | +3 shared | |
Ralph K. Hofer | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15 | (+14 ground kills) | |
Cyril F. Homer | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15 | ||
Paterson Hughes | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 15 | ||
Georg Kraft † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 15[122] | Night fighter ace | |
Don C. Laubman | ![]() | Royal Canadian Air Force | 15 | ||
Ian Roy MacLennan | ![]() | Royal Canadian Air Force | 15 | ||
Alan Owen | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 15 | +1 V-1 flying bomb | |
Harold L. Spears † | ![]() | U.S. Marine Corps | 15 | ||
Stoyan Stoyanov | ![]() | Royal Bulgarian Air Force | 15 | ||
Alois Vašátko † | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 15 | ||
Donald H. Bochkay | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14.84 | ||
Donald J. Blakeslee | ![]() | Royal Air Force; U.S. Army Air Forces | 14.5 | victories with 2 air forces | |
John D. Landers | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14.5 | (+20 ground kills) | |
Aaro Nuorala | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 14.5[41] | ||
Joseph H. Powers, Jr. | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14.5 | ||
Ronald Berry | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 14 | +10 shared | |
Johnnie Checketts | ![]() | Royal New Zealand Air Force | 14.5 | ||
Henry Brown | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Force | 14.5 | (+14.5 ground kills) | |
Charles Scherf | ![]() | Royal Australian Air Force | 14.5 | (+9 ground kills) | |
David Fairbanks | ![]() | Royal Canadian Air Force | 14 | Top Hawker Tempest ace with 13 of his 14 victories scored on it. | |
Mario Bellagambi | ![]() | Regia Aeronautica | 14 | ||
Svein Heglund | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 14 | ||
Sophus Baagoe † | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 14[141] | ||
William Klersy † | ![]() | Royal Canadian Air Force | 14 | (+1 shared) | |
Günther Wegmann | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 14[90] | Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262[8] | |
Robert Boyd | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 14 | (also 7 shared) | |
František Brezina | ![]() | Slovak Air Force | 14 | ||
Bruce W. Carr | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | (+10 ground kills) | |
Robert C. Curtis | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | ||
Robert M. DeHaven | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | ||
Archie Donahue | ![]() | U.S. Marine Corps | 14 | ||
Wallace N. Emmer | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | ||
James A. Goodson | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | (+13 ground kills) | |
Arthur R. Hawkins | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 14 | ||
Arthur F. Jeffrey | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | ||
Edward O. McComas | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | ||
Elbert S. McCuskey | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 14 | ||
Donald McKay | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 14 | + one unconfirmed | |
Daniel T. Roberts, Jr. | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | ||
Gray Stenborg † | ![]() | Royal New Zealand Air Force | 14[142] | ||
John L. Wirth | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 14 | ||
István Fábián | ![]() | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 14 | ||
István Kálmán | ![]() | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 14 | ||
George Carpenter | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13.833 | (+4 ground kills) | |
William Henry Franklin | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 13.5 | ||
George Chamberlain Duncan | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 13.5 | ||
Pekka Kokko | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 13.5[41] | ||
Heimo Lampi | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 13.5[41] | ||
Roger W. Mehle | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 13.5 | ||
Donald J. Strait | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13.5 | ||
Donald S. Bryan | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13.3 | Ace in a day | |
Darrell S. Cramer | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | ||
Hans Hahn* | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 13[143] | Night fighter ace | |
Ivo von Lubich-Edler Milowa* | ![]() | Luftwaffe | 13[113] | ||
John Wong Pan-Yang | ![]() | Chinese Nationalist Air Force | 13 | ||
James L. Brooks | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | ||
Jan Zumbach | ![]() | Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force | 13 | ||
Safet Boskic | ![]() | Croatian Air Force | 13 | ||
Mervyn Shipard | ![]() | Royal Australian Air Force | 13 | ||
Daniel A. Carmichael, Jr. | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 13 | ||
James N. Cupp | ![]() | U.S. Marine Corps | 13 | ||
Clyde B. East | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | ||
Robert E. Galer | ![]() | U.S. Marine Corps | 13 | ||
John F. Hampshire | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | ||
Bruce K. Holloway | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | ||
William P. Marontate | ![]() | U.S. Marine Corps | 13 | ||
Willard. W. Millikan | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | (+2 ground kills) | |
Glennon T. Moran | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | (+3 ground kills) | |
Robert Neale | ![]() | American Volunteer Group | 13 | (+2.5 ground kills) | |
László Pottyondi | ![]() | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 13 | ||
László Máthé | ![]() | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 13 | ||
Edward Mortimer-Rose † | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 13 | ||
Robin Olds | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | +4 in Vietnam War | (+11 ground kills) |
James O'Meara | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 13 | ||
Yrjö Pallasvuo | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 13[41] | ||
Harry A. Parker | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | ||
Roy W. Rushing | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 13 | ||
Edward O. Shaw † | ![]() | U.S. Marine Corps | 13 | ||
John Shepherd | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 13 | Also destroyed 7 V-1 flying bombs | Total includes five shared. |
AJ "Jackie" Sewell | ![]() | Fleet Air Arm | 13 | ||
Roderick Smith | ![]() | Royal Canadian Air Force | 13[144] | (+1 shared victory and 1 shared probable) | |
Robert W. Stephens | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | ||
John R. Strane | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 13 | ||
Robert Lee Scott, Jr. | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | ||
Wendell V. Twelves | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 13 | ||
Tony Bartley | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 13 | ||
Ian Richard Gleed | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 13 | ||
Felix D. Williamson | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | ||
Tiberiu Vinca | ![]() | Royal Romanian Air Force | 13 | ||
Ioan Maga | ![]() | Royal Romanian Air Force | 13 | ||
John Webster † | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 13 | ||
Henryk Pietrzak | ![]() | Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force | 12.5 | ||
Lasse Aaltonen | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 12.5[41] | ||
Ted Thorn | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 12.5 | ||
Frederick James Barker | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 12.5 | rear gunner of Ted Thorn | |
Andrew "Nicky" Barr | ![]() | Royal Australian Air Force | 12.5 | ||
Tony Gaze | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 12.5 | ||
Lowell K. Brueland | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12.5 | +2 in Korean War | |
Kenneth D. Frazier | ![]() | U.S. Marine Corps | 12.5 | ||
David Charles "Foob" Fairbanks | ![]() | Royal Canadian Air Force | 12.5 | ||
Irving Farmer Kennedy | ![]() | Royal Canadian Air Force | 12.5 | ||
Eino Koskinen | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 12.5[41] | ||
Onni Paronen | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 12.5[41] | ||
Urho Sarjamo † | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 12.5[41] | ||
Per-Erik Sovelius | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 12.5[41] | ||
James C. Stewart | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12.5 | (+1 ground kill) | |
James H. Howard | ![]() | American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces | 12+1⁄3 | victories with 2 air forces (6+1⁄3 with AVG and 6 with USAF) | |
Quince L. Brown | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12+1⁄3 | (+2 ground kills) | |
Lydia Litvyak † | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 12 | range 6–12 | highest ranking female ace |
Luigi Baron | ![]() | Regia Aeronautica | 12 | ||
Harold Atkinson † | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 12[145] | (+2 unconfirmed) | |
Edward Crew | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 12 | ||
Stanley Connors † | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 12[146] | (+2 unconfirmed, with a half share in another unconfirmed destroyed) | |
Mato Culinovic | ![]() | Croatian Air Force | 12 | ||
George Keefer | ![]() | Royal Canadian Air Force | 12 | ||
John A. Kent | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 12 | (+1 ground kill) | |
Eduard Martinko | ![]() | Croatian Air Force | 12 | ||
Veca Mikovic | ![]() | Croatian Air Force | 12 | ||
Zlatko Stipcic | ![]() | Croatian Air Force | 12 | ||
Marian Pisarek | ![]() | Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force | 12 | ||
John Dundas | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 12 | ||
John Freeborn | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 12 | ||
Robert Barton | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 12[147] | (+5 shared victories and 2 probables) | |
Wilfred Sizer | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 12 | ||
Jozef Štauder | ![]() | Slovak Air Force | 12 | possibly 13 | |
James Storrar | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 12[148] | (+2 shared) | |
Pavol Zeleňák | ![]() | Slovak Air Force | 12 | ||
Bruce Bretherton | ![]() | Royal Australian Air Force | 12 | ||
Charles Crombie | ![]() | Royal Australian Air Force | 12 | ||
Peter Turnbull | ![]() | Royal Australian Air Force | 12 | ||
John Yarra | ![]() | Royal Australian Air Force | 12 | ||
Anton Matúšek | ![]() | Slovak Air Force | 12 | ||
Leo Ahokas | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 12[41] | ||
Michael Brezas | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | ||
Levi R. Chase | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | ||
Clement M. Craig | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 12 | ||
Nicholas Gresham Cooke † | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 12 | Ace in a day | |
David B. Eastham | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | ||
Loren D. Everton | ![]() | U.S. Marine Corps | 12 | ||
Luigi Giannella | ![]() | Regia Aeronautica | 12 | ||
George W. Gleason | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | (+2.5 ground kills) | |
Leroy E. Harris | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 12 | ||
Coatsworth B. Head, Jr. | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | ||
Roger R. Hedrick | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 12 | ||
Howard D. Hively | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | (+2.5 ground kills) | |
Kenneth G. Ladd | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | ||
Albert Lippett † | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 12 | Ace in a day, turret gunner on a two-man fighter plane | |
William J. Masoner, Jr. | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 12 | ||
Pierce McKennon | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | (+9.7 ground kills) | |
Robert W. Moore | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | ||
József Málik † | ![]() | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 12 | ||
Ferenc Málnássy † | ![]() | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 12 | ||
František Peřina | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 12 | ||
Michael J. Quirk | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | (+5 ground kills) | |
Jack Rae | ![]() | Royal New Zealand Air Force | 12[149] | ||
Attilio Sanson | ![]() | Regia Aeronautica | 12 | ||
Leroy A. Schreiber | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12[150] | (+2 ground kills) | |
Harold E. Segal | ![]() | U.S. Marine Corps | 12 | ||
James A. Shirley | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 12 | ||
Norman C. Skogstad | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | ||
William J. Sloan | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | ||
Giorgio Solaroli di Briona | ![]() | Regia Aeronautica | 12 | ||
Eugene A. Trowbridge | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | ||
Richard E. Turner | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | possibly just 11 (+2 V-1 flying bombs) | |
James A. Watkins | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | ||
Edward Wells | ![]() | Royal New Zealand Air Force | 12[151] | (+4 probables) | |
Richard L. West | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | ||
Nicholas Megura | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11.84 | (+3.8 ground kills) | |
George R. Carr | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 11.5 | ||
James A. Clark, Jr. | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11.5 | (+4.5 ground kills) | |
Paul A. Conger | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11.5 | ||
Olin E. Gilbert | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11.5 | ||
William T. Halton | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11.5 | (+2 ground kills) | |
John A. Kirla, Jr. | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11.5 | (+.5 ground kill) | |
William N. Snider | ![]() | U.S. Marine Corps | 11.5 | ||
Albert O. Vorse Jr. | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 11.5 | ||
Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11.5 | Ace in a day | |
Basilios Michael Vassilios "Vass" Vassiliades | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 11.5 | ||
Liu Chi-Sheng / Liu Zhesheng | ![]() | Chinese Nationalist Air Force | 11.3 | Top Chinese ace | |
Howard Mayers | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 11.3 | ||
Louis H. Norley | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11.3 | (+5 ground kills) | |
Philip C. DeLong | ![]() | U.S. Marine Corps | 11.2 | +2 in Korean War | |
Richard John Cork | ![]() | Fleet Air Arm | 11 | Ace in a day | |
George Jameson | ![]() | Royal New Zealand Air Force | 11[152] | Highest scoring New Zealand night fighter pilot of WWII[152] | |
Ian Bedford Nesbitt Russell | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 11 | ||
Albin Starc | ![]() | Croatian Air Force | 11 | ||
Josip Helebrant | ![]() | Croatian Air Force | 11 | ||
Stjepan Martinasevic | ![]() | Croatian Air Force | 11 | ||
Harold W. Bauer † | ![]() | U.S. Marine Corps | 11 | ||
John T. Blackburn | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 11 | ||
William A. Dean, Jr. | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 11 | ||
László Dániel | ![]() | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 11 | ||
Henry Ferriss † | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 11 | ||
Geoff Fisken | ![]() | Royal New Zealand Air Force | 11 | ||
Carl M. Frantz | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | ||
James B. French | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 11 | ||
Robert J. Goebel | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | ||
Ronald Hamlyn | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 11 | Ace in a day | |
Phillip L. Kirkwood | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 11 | ||
John B. Lawler | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | ||
Hemmo Leino | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 11[41] | ||
Francis J. Lent | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | ||
Leland P. Molland | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | ||
William L. Leverette | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | ||
John S. Loisel | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | ||
Wayne L. Lowry | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | ||
Carlo Magnaghi | ![]() | Regia Aeronautica | 11 | ||
Charles M. Mallory | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 11 | ||
Aleksey Maresyev | ![]() | Soviet Air Force | 11[153] | 3 victories after losing his legs | |
Charles M. McCorkle | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | ||
Norman L. McDonald | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | ||
Hamilton McWhorter III | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 12 | ||
John W. Mitchell | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | +4 in Korean War | |
Urho Nieminen | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 11[41] | ||
Harvey P. Picken | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 11 | ||
James V. Reber, Jr. | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 11 | ||
Elmer W. Richardson | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | possibly just 8 | |
Robert H. Riddle | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | ||
James F. Rigg | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 11 | ||
Donald E. Runyon | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 11 | ||
Donald H. Sapp | ![]() | U.S. Marine Corps | 11 | ||
Warren Schrader | ![]() | Royal New Zealand Air Force | 11[142] | ||
Murray Shubin | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | ||
Otto Smik † | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 11 | (+3 V-1 flying bombs) | |
Cornelius Smith, Jr. | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | ||
Kenneth C. Sparks | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | ||
Richard E. Stanbrook | ![]() | U.S. Navy | 11 | ||
Ilkka Törrönen | ![]() | Finnish Air Force | 11[41] | ||
Mario Veronesi | ![]() | Regia Aeronautica | 11 | ||
Harold Walmsley | ![]() | Royal Air Force | 11 | ||
Ioan Malacescu | ![]() | Royal Romanian Air Force | 11 | ||
Teodor Zabava | ![]() | Royal Romanian Air Force | 11 |
References
Citations
- ^ Obermaier 1989, p. 106.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Spick 1996, p. 244.
- ^ Obermaier 1989, p. 182.
- ^ Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 27.
- ^ Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 45.
- ^ Obermaier 1989, p. 92.
- ^ a b Mathews & Foreman 2015, p. 1479.
- ^ a b c d e f Morgan & Weal 1998, p. 88.
- ^ Obermaier 1989, p. 85.
- ^ a b c Mathews & Foreman 2015, p. 1524.
- ^ Obermaier 1989, p. 218.
- ^ Mathews & Foreman 2015, p. 1489.
- ^ Obermaier 1989, p. 143.
- ^ a b Obermaier 1989, p. 103.
- ^ Obermaier 1989, p. 119.
- ^ Obermaier 1989, p. 137.
- ^ Obermaier 1989, p. 152.
- ^ a b Mathews & Foreman 2015, p. 1519.
- ^ Yenne 2000, p. 225.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 559.
- ^ Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 317.
- ^ Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 84.
- ^ Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 73.
- ^ a b Mathews & Foreman 2015, p. 1483.
- ^ Obermaier 1989, p. 154.
- ^ Obermaier 1989, p. 183.
- ^ Obermaier 1989, p. 201.
- ^ Obermaier 1989, p. 99.
- ^ Obermaier 1989, p. 104.
- ^ Mathews & Foreman 2015, p. 1533.
- ^ Aders 1978, p. 236.
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