Name |
Country |
Service(s) |
Aerial Victories |
Other Aerial Victories |
Notes |
Erich Hartmann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 352 | | Top ace of all time. Double-Ace in a Day |
Gerhard Barkhorn | Germany | Luftwaffe | 301 | | |
Günther Rall | Germany | Luftwaffe | 275 | | Later Inspekteur der Luftwaffe der Bundeswehr. |
Otto Kittel † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 267 | | Top scoring Focke-Wulf 190 ace. |
Walter Nowotny † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 258 | | |
Wilhelm Batz | Germany | Luftwaffe | 237 | | |
Erich Rudorffer | Germany | Luftwaffe | 222 | | Jet ace with 12 victories in Me 262. Double-Ace in a Day |
Heinz Bär | Germany | Luftwaffe | 220 | | Jet ace with 16 victories in Me 262 |
Hermann Graf | Germany | Luftwaffe | 212 | | First ever pilot with 200 victories |
Heinrich Ehrler † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 208 | | Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262 |
Theodor Weissenberger | Germany | Luftwaffe | 208 | | Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262 |
Hans Philipp † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 206 | | |
Walter Schuck | Germany | Luftwaffe | 206 | | Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262 |
Anton Hafner † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 204 | | |
Helmut Lipfert | Germany | Luftwaffe | 203 | | |
Walter Krupinski | Germany | Luftwaffe | 197 | | |
Anton Hackl | Germany | Luftwaffe | 192 | | |
Joachim Brendel | Germany | Luftwaffe | 189 | | |
Max Stotz † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 189 | | |
Joachim Kirschner † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 188 | | |
Kurt Brändle † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 180 | | |
Günther Josten | Germany | Luftwaffe | 178 | | |
Johannes Steinhoff | Germany | Luftwaffe | 176 | | Jet ace with 6 victories in Me 262 |
Ernst-Wilhelm Reinert | Germany | Luftwaffe | 174 | | |
Günther Schack | Germany | Luftwaffe | 174 | | |
Emil Lang † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 173 | | Triple-Ace in a Day |
Heinz Schmidt † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 173 | | |
Horst Ademeit † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 166 | | |
Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 162 | | |
Hans-Joachim Marseille † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 158 | | Destroyed most Western Allied aircraft. Triple-Ace in a Day |
Heinrich Sturm † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 158 | | |
Gerhard Thyben | Germany | Luftwaffe | 157 | | |
Hans Beisswenger † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 152 | | |
Peter Düttmann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 152 | | |
Gordon Gollob | Germany | Luftwaffe | 150 | | . FIRST PILOT TO 150 on 29/7/42 |
Fritz Tegtmeier | Germany | Luftwaffe | 146 | | |
Albin Wolf † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 144 | | |
Kurt Tanzer | Germany | Luftwaffe | 143 | | |
Friedrich-Karl Müller † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 140 | | |
Karl Gratz | Germany | Luftwaffe | 138 | | |
Heinrich Setz † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 138 | | |
Rudolf Trenkel | Germany | Luftwaffe | 138 | | |
Franz Schall † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 137 | | Jet ace with 14 victories in Me 262 |
Walter Wolfrum | Germany | Luftwaffe | 137 | | |
Adolf Dickfeld | Germany | Luftwaffe | 136 | | |
Horst-Günther von Fassong † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 136 | | |
Otto Fönnekold † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 136 | | |
Karl-Heinz Weber † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 136 | | |
Joachim Müncheberg † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 135 | | |
Hans Waldmann † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 134 | | Ace in a day |
Alfred Grislawski | Germany | Luftwaffe | 133 | | |
Johannes Wiese | Germany | Luftwaffe | 133 | | |
Adolf Borchers | Germany | Luftwaffe | 132 | | |
Erwin Clausen † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 132 | | |
Wilhelm Lemke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 131 | | |
Gerhard Hoffmann † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 130 | | |
Heinrich Sterr † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 130 | | |
Franz Eisenach | Germany | Luftwaffe | 129 | | |
Walther Dahl | Germany | Luftwaffe | 128 | | |
Franz Dörr | Germany | Luftwaffe | 128 | | |
Rudolf Rademacher | Germany | Luftwaffe | 126 | | Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262 |
Josef Zwernemann † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 126 | | |
Dietrich Hrabak | Germany | Luftwaffe | 125 | | |
Wolf-Udo Ettel † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 124 | | |
Herbert Ihlefeld | Germany | Luftwaffe | 123 | +9 in Spanish Civil War | |
Wolfgang Tonne † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 122 | | |
Heinz Marquardt | Germany | Luftwaffe | 121 | | |
Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer | Germany | Luftwaffe | 121 | | Top night fighter ace. Ace in a day |
Robert Weiß † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 121 | | |
Friedrich Obleser | Germany | Luftwaffe | 120 | | |
Friedrich Wachowiak † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 120 | | |
Erich Leie † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 118 | | |
Franz-Josef Beerenbrock | Germany | Luftwaffe | 117 | | |
Hans-Joachim Birkner † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 117 | | |
Jakob Norz † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 117 | | |
Walter Oesau † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 117 | | |
Heinz Wernicke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 117 | | |
August Lambert † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 116 | | Triple-Ace in a Day |
Wilhelm Crinius | Germany | Luftwaffe | 114 | | |
Werner Schröer | Germany | Luftwaffe | 114 | | |
Hans Dammers † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 113 | | |
Berthold Korts † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 113 | | |
Kurt Bühligen | Germany | Luftwaffe | 112 | | |
Helmut Lent † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 110 | | Night fighter ace |
Kurt Ubben † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 110 | | |
Franz Woidich | Germany | Luftwaffe | 110 | | |
Emil Bitsch † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 108 | | |
Hans Hahn | Germany | Luftwaffe | 108 | | |
Bernhard Vechtel | Germany | Luftwaffe | 108 | | |
Viktor Bauer | Germany | Luftwaffe | 106 | | |
Werner Lucas † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 106 | | |
Günther Lützow † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 105 | | |
Adolf Galland | Germany | Luftwaffe | 104 | | Jet ace with 7 victories in Me 262 |
Eberhard von Boremski | Germany | Luftwaffe | 104 | | |
Heinz Sachsenberg | Germany | Luftwaffe | 104 | | |
Hartmann Grasser | Germany | Luftwaffe | 103 | | |
Siegfried Freytag | Germany | Luftwaffe | 102 | | |
Friedrich Geisshardt † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 102 | | |
Egon Mayer † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 102 | | |
Max-Hellmuth Ostermann † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 102 | | |
Josef Wurmheller † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 102 | | |
Werner Mölders † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 101 | +14 in Spanish Civil War | First ever pilot with 100 victories |
Rudolf Miethig † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 101 | | |
Josef Priller | Germany | Luftwaffe | 101 | | |
Ulrich Wernitz | Germany | Luftwaffe | 101 | | |
Reinhard Seiler | Germany | Luftwaffe | 100 | | |
Paul-Heinrich Dähne † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 99 | | |
Leopold Steinbatz | Germany | Luftwaffe | 99 | | |
Wolfgang Späte | Germany | Luftwaffe | 99 | | Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262 |
Heinrich Bartels † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 99 | | |
Hans Schleef † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 99 | | |
Horst Hannig † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 98 | | |
Gustav Rödel | Germany | Luftwaffe | 98 | | |
Helmut Rüffler | Germany | Luftwaffe | 98 | | |
Helmut Mertens | Germany | Luftwaffe | 97 | | |
Hermann Schleinhege | Germany | Luftwaffe | 97 | | |
Diethelm von Eichel-Streiber | Germany | Luftwaffe | 96 | | |
Heinrich Höfemeier † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 96 | | |
Siegfried Lemke | Germany | Luftwaffe | 96 | | |
Leopold Münster † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 95 | | |
Ilmari Juutilainen | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 94 | | Top non-German ace. Claimed 126 victories. Ace in a day. |
Rudolf Müller † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 94 | | possibly 101 |
Rudolf Resch † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 93 | +1 in Spanish Civil War | |
Heinrich Klöpper † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 93 | | |
Helmut Bennemann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 93 | | |
Edmund Roßmann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 93 | | |
Siegfried Schnell † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 93 | | |
Gerhard Loos † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 92 | | |
Oskar Romm | Germany | Luftwaffe | 92 | | |
Anton Resch | Germany | Luftwaffe | 91 | | |
Georg Schentke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 91 | | |
Heinz Kemethmüller | Germany | Luftwaffe | 89 | | |
Josef Jennewein † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 86 | | |
Anton Mader | Germany | Luftwaffe | 86 | | |
Ulrich Wöhnert | Germany | Luftwaffe | 86 | | |
Gerhard Köppen † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 85 | | |
Walter Zellot † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 85 | | |
Heinz Ewald | Germany | Luftwaffe | 84 | | |
Peter Kalden | Germany | Luftwaffe | 84 | | |
Werner Quast | Germany | Luftwaffe | 84 | | |
Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 83 | | |
Otto Weßling † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 83 | | |
Hans Grünberg | Germany | Luftwaffe | 82 | | Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262 |
Emil Darjes | Germany | Luftwaffe | 82 | | |
Hans Götz † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 82 | | |
Helmut Missner | Germany | Luftwaffe | 82 | | |
Franz Beyer † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 81 | | |
Hugo Broch | Germany | Luftwaffe | 81 | | |
Willi Nemitz † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 81 | | |
Wilhelm Philipp | Germany | Luftwaffe | 81 | | |
Rudolf Wagner | Germany | Luftwaffe | 81 | | |
Tetsuzo Iwamoto | Japan | Imperial Japanese Navy | 80 | +14 early in Second Sino-Japanese War | Claimed 200+ victories |
Herbert Bachnick † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 80 | | |
Otto Würfel | Germany | Luftwaffe | 79 | | |
Georg-Peter Eder | Germany | Luftwaffe | 78 | | Jet ace with 12 victories in Me 262 |
Wolfgang Ewald | Germany | Luftwaffe | 78 | | |
Heinrich Krafft † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 78 | | |
Max-Hermann Lücke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 78 | | |
Johann-Hermann Meier † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 78 | | |
Karl-Gottfried Nordmann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 78 | | |
Alexander Preinfalk † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 78 | | |
Hubertus von Bonin † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 77 | +4 in Spanish Civil War | |
Josef Haiböck | Germany | Luftwaffe | 77 | | |
Walter Ohlrogge | Germany | Luftwaffe | 77 | | |
Hans-Joachim Kroschinski | Germany | Luftwaffe | 76 | | |
Maximilian Mayerl | Germany | Luftwaffe | 76 | | |
Alfred Teumer † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 76 | | |
Edwin Thiel † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 76 | | |
Hans Wind | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 75 | | Double-Ace in a day. |
Johannes Bunzek † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 75 | | |
Gustav Frielinghaus | Germany | Luftwaffe | 75 | | |
Helmuth Grollmus | Germany | Luftwaffe | 75 | | |
Johann Pichler | Germany | Luftwaffe | 75 | | |
Hans Röhrig † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 75 | | |
Waldemar Semelka † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 75 | | |
Joachim Wandel † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 75 | | |
Otto Gaiser † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 74 | | |
Friedrich Haas | Germany | Luftwaffe | 74 | | |
Karl-Heinz Meltzer † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 74 | | |
Wilhelm Herget | Germany | Luftwaffe | 73 | | |
Anton Lindner | Germany | Luftwaffe | 73 | | |
Gerhard Michalski | Germany | Luftwaffe | 73 | | |
Otto Schultz | Germany | Luftwaffe | 73 | | |
Shigeo Fukumoto | Japan | Imperial Japanese Navy | 72 | | |
Klaus Mietusch † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 72 | | |
Wilhelm Mink † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 72 | | |
Karl Heinz Schnell | Germany | Luftwaffe | 72 | | |
Hans Fuß † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 71 | | |
Adolf Glunz | Germany | Luftwaffe | 71 | | |
Alfred Heckmann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 71 | | |
Herbert Rollwage | Germany | Luftwaffe | 71 | | |
Günther Scheel † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 71 | | |
Shoichi Sugita | Japan | Imperial Japanese Navy | 70 | | +40 shared |
Karl Hoffmann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 70 | | |
Hermann-Friedrich Joppien † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 70 | | |
Heinz Lange | Germany | Luftwaffe | 70 | | |
Rudi Linz † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 70 | | |
Emil Omert † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 70 | | |
Lutz-Wilhelm Burckhardt | Germany | Luftwaffe | 69 | | |
Armin Köhler | Germany | Luftwaffe | 69 | | |
Ernst Weismann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 69 | | |
Eugen-Ludwig Zweigart † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 69 | | |
Constantin Cantacuzino | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 69 | | Top Romanian ace |
Kurt Dombacher | Germany | Luftwaffe | 68 | | |
Walter Höckner | Germany | Luftwaffe | 68 | | |
Herbert Huppertz † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 68 | | |
Heinrich Jung | Germany | Luftwaffe | 68 | | |
Herbert Kaiser | Germany | Luftwaffe | 68 | | |
Richard Leppla | Germany | Luftwaffe | 68 | | |
Fritz Losigkeit | Germany | Luftwaffe | 68 | | |
Günther Freiherr von Maltzahn | Germany | Luftwaffe | 68 | | |
Hans Strelow † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 68 | | |
Ernst Süß † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 68 | | |
Otto Tange † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 68 | | |
Fritz Dinger † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 67 | | |
Herbert Findeisen | Germany | Luftwaffe | 67 | | |
Karl Fuchs | Germany | Luftwaffe | 67 | | |
Heinrich Füllgrabe † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 67 | | |
Karl Hammerl | Germany | Luftwaffe | 67 | | |
Reinhold Hoffmann † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 67 | | |
Erbo Graf von Kageneck † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 67 | | |
Franz Schieß † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 67 | | |
Franz Schwaiger † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 67 | | |
Hubert Strassl † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 67 | | Triple-Ace in a Day |
Erwin Fleig | Germany | Luftwaffe | 66 | | |
Werner Streib | Germany | Luftwaffe | 66 | | Night fighter ace |
Berthold Graßmuck † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 65 | | |
Karl Kempf † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 65 | | |
Manfred Meurer † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 65 | | |
Ivan Kozhedub | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 66 | +2 US planes that mistakenly attacked him | Highest-scoring Allied ace in WWII |
Bernd Gallowitsch | Germany | Luftwaffe | 64 | | |
Jürgen Harder † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 64 | | |
Rolf Hermichen | Germany | Luftwaffe | 64 | | |
Walter Lindner | Germany | Luftwaffe | 64 | | |
Viktor Petermann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 64 | | |
Erhard Peters | Germany | Luftwaffe | 64 | | |
Günther Radusch | Germany | Luftwaffe | 64 | | |
Heinz Rökker | Germany | Luftwaffe | 64 | | |
Rudolf Schoenert | Germany | Luftwaffe | 64 | | |
Franz Götz | Germany | Luftwaffe | 63 | | |
Heinrich Hoffmann † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 63 | | |
Gerhard Homuth † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 63 | | |
Wilhelm Schilling | Germany | Luftwaffe | 63 | | |
Hermann Staiger | Germany | Luftwaffe | 63 | | |
Kurt Welter | Germany | Luftwaffe | 63 | | Jet ace with 20+ claimed in Me 262; 56 as night fighter; possibly all time jet ace |
Heino Cordes | Germany | Luftwaffe | 62 | | |
Wilhelm Hübner | Germany | Luftwaffe | 62 | | |
Helmut Neumann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 62 | | |
Gerhard Beutin | Germany | Luftwaffe | 60 | | |
Hans-Ekkehard Bob | Germany | Luftwaffe | 60 | | |
Horst Carganico † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 60 | | |
Franz Czech | Germany | Luftwaffe | 60 | | |
Alfred Franke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 60 | | |
Franz Hrdlicka † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 60 | | |
Kurt Kelter | Germany | Luftwaffe | 60 | | |
August Mors † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 60 | | |
Karl Munz | Germany | Luftwaffe | 60 | | |
Alfred Rauch | Germany | Luftwaffe | 60 | | |
Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 59 | +8 prior to Soviets officially in WWII | |
Hans-Arnold Stahlschmidt † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 59 | | |
Walter Borchers † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 59 | | |
Franz Eckerle † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 59 | | |
Karl Steffen | Germany | Luftwaffe | 59 | | |
Paul Zorner | Germany | Luftwaffe | 59 | | |
Hermann Buchner | Germany | Luftwaffe | 58 | | Jet ace with 12 victories in Me 262 |
Martin Becker | Germany | Luftwaffe | 58 | | |
Herbert Broennle † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 58 | | |
Siegfried Engfer | Germany | Luftwaffe | 58 | | |
Herbert Friebel | Germany | Luftwaffe | 58 | | |
Wilhelm Freuwörth | Germany | Luftwaffe | 58 | | |
Gerhard Raht | Germany | Luftwaffe | 58 | | |
Hannes Trautloft | Germany | Luftwaffe | 58 | | |
Hiromichi Shinohara † | Japan | Imperial Japanese Army | 58 | | |
Grigoriy Andreevich Rechkalov | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 58 | | |
Nikolay Dmitrievich Gulayev | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 57 | | |
Heinrich-Wilhelm Ahnert † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 57 | | |
Konrad Bauer | Germany | Luftwaffe | 57 | | |
Walter Brandt | Germany | Luftwaffe | 57 | | |
Hugo Dahmer | Germany | Luftwaffe | 57 | | |
Kurt Ebener | Germany | Luftwaffe | 57 | | |
Adolf Kalkum | Germany | Luftwaffe | 57 | | |
Herbert Puschmann † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 57 | | |
Johannes Seifert † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 57 | | |
Hermann Wolf | Germany | Luftwaffe | 57 | | |
Manfred Eberwein | Germany | Luftwaffe | 56 | | |
Gustav Francsi | Germany | Luftwaffe | 56 | | |
Horst Haase | Germany | Luftwaffe | 56 | | |
Heinz Hackler † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 56 | | |
Erich Hohagen | Germany | Luftwaffe | 56 | | |
Helmuth Holtz | Germany | Luftwaffe | 56 | | |
Eduard Isken | Germany | Luftwaffe | 56 | | |
Kurt Knappe † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 56 | | |
Josef Kraft | Germany | Luftwaffe | 56 | | |
Helmut Schönfelder | Germany | Luftwaffe | 56 | | |
Günther Seeger | Germany | Luftwaffe | 56 | | |
Heinz Strüning † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 56 | | |
Edmund Wagner † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 56 | | |
Helmut Wick † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 56 | | |
Eino Luukkanen | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 56 | | |
Karl-Heinz Bendert | Germany | Luftwaffe | 55 | | |
Wilhelm-Ferdinand Galland † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 55 | | |
Herbert Bareuther † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 55 | | |
Hans-Dieter Frank | Germany | Luftwaffe | 55 | | |
Gabriel Tautscher | Germany | Luftwaffe | 55 | | |
Takeo Okumura † | Japan | Imperial Japanese Navy | 54 | | |
Johann Badum † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 54 | | |
Hans Ehlers † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 54 | | |
August Geiger † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 54 | | |
Wilhelm Hauswirth | Germany | Luftwaffe | 54 | | |
Heinz Leber | Germany | Luftwaffe | 54 | | |
Siegfried Simsch † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 54 | | |
Heinz Vinke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 54 | | |
Kirill A. Yevstigneyev | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 53 | | |
Albert Brunner † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 53 | | |
Heinz-Edgar Berres † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 53 | | |
Hans-Joachim Heyer † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 53 | | |
Willy Kientsch † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 53 | | |
Carl Sattig | Germany | Luftwaffe | 53 | | |
Julius Meimberg | Germany | Luftwaffe | 53 | | |
Franz Barten † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 52 | | |
Martin Drewes | Germany | Luftwaffe | 52 | | |
Alfred Gross | Germany | Luftwaffe | 52 | | |
Ludwig Häfner † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 52 | | |
Heinz Knoke | Germany | Luftwaffe | 52 | | |
Rudolf Pflanz † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 52 | | |
Friedrich Rupp † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 52 | | |
Heinrich Wefers | Germany | Luftwaffe | 52 | | |
Hermann Greiner | Germany | Luftwaffe | 51 | | |
Werner Hoffmann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 51 | | Night fighter |
Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 51 | | |
Fritz Lüddecke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 51 | | |
Otto Schulz † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 51 | | |
Dmitri Hlinka | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 50 | | |
Hans-Joachim Jabs | Germany | Luftwaffe | 50 | | |
Emil Knittel | Germany | Luftwaffe | 50 | | |
Frank Liesendahl | Germany | Luftwaffe | 50 | | |
Herbert Lütje | Germany | Luftwaffe | 50 | | |
Karl Willius † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 50 | | |
Heinz Arnold † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 49 | | Jet ace with 7 victories in Me 262 |
Rudolf Ehrenberger † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 49 | | |
Reinhard Kollak | Germany | Luftwaffe | 49 | | |
Klaus Quaet-Faslem † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 49 | | |
Richard Quante | Germany | Luftwaffe | 49 | | |
Friedrich Beckh † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 48 | | |
Paul Gildner † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 48 | | |
Johannes Hager | Germany | Luftwaffe | 47 | | |
Werner Stumpf † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 48 | | |
Franz Schwaiger † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 48 | | |
Heinz-Gerhard Vogt † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 48 | | |
Ernst-Georg Drünkler | Germany | Luftwaffe | 47 | | |
Heinz Golinski † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 47 | | |
Eckhard Hübner | Germany | Luftwaffe | 47 | | |
Herbert Kutscha † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 47 | | |
Erich Schmidt | Germany | Luftwaffe | 47 | | |
Georg Seidel | Germany | Luftwaffe | 47 | | |
Alexandru Şerbănescu † | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 47 | | |
Arseniy Vasilievich Vorozheikin | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 46 | +6 in Battles of Khalkhin Gol | |
Aleksandr Ivanovich Koldunov | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 46 | | |
Nikolay Mikhailovich Skomorohov | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 46 | | |
Hans-Heinz Augenstein | Germany | Luftwaffe | 46 | | |
Ludwig Becker † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 46 | | |
Wolfgang Böwing-Treuding † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 46 | | |
Günter Fink † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 46 | | |
Erwin Laskowski | Germany | Luftwaffe | 46 | | |
Karl Rammelt | Germany | Luftwaffe | 46 | | |
Karl Schnörrer | Germany | Luftwaffe | 46 | | Jet ace with 11 victories in Me 262 |
Franz Schulte | Germany | Luftwaffe | 46 | | |
Paul Semrau † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 46 | | |
Alfred Surau | Germany | Luftwaffe | 46 | | |
Kurt Tangermann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 46 | | |
Ernst Düllberg | Germany | Luftwaffe | 45 | | |
Rudolf Frank † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 45 | | |
Gerhard Schöpfel | Germany | Luftwaffe | 45 | | |
Franz Stigler | Germany | Luftwaffe | 45 | | |
Otto Vinzent | Germany | Luftwaffe | 45 | | |
Ion Milu | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 45 | | |
Urho Lehtovaara | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 44½ | | |
Mato Dukovac | Croatia | Croatian Air Force | 44 | | Top Croatian ace |
Oiva Tuominen | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 44 | | |
Hans Frese | Germany | Luftwaffe | 44 | | |
Karl-Wilhelm Hofmann † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 44 | | |
Reinhold Knacke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 44 | | Staffelkapitän of 1./NJG 1 |
Wilhelm Steinmann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 44 | | |
Walther Wever † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 44 | | |
Vladimir Bobrov | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 43 | | |
Karl Borris | Germany | Luftwaffe | 43 | | |
Ludwig Franzisket | Germany | Luftwaffe | 43 | | |
Hubert Mütherich | Germany | Luftwaffe | 43 | | |
Josef Pöhs † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 43 | | |
Dietrich Schmidt | Germany | Luftwaffe | 43 | | |
Daniel Vizanty | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 43 | | |
Olli Puhakka | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 42 | | |
Norbert Hannig | Germany | Luftwaffe | 42 | | |
Jürgen Brocke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 42 | | |
Tudor Greceanu | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 42 | | |
Rudolf Schmidt | Germany | Luftwaffe | 42 | | |
Herbert Schramm † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 42 | | |
Robert Olejnik | Germany | Luftwaffe | 41 | | |
Werner Baake | Germany | Luftwaffe | 41 | | |
Leopold Fellerer | Germany | Luftwaffe | 41 | | |
Wilhelm Balthasar † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 40 | +7 in Spanish Civil War | (+13 on ground) |
Richard I. Bong † | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 40 | | Top U.S. ace |
Rudolf Busch | Germany | Luftwaffe | 40 | | |
Peter Bremer | Germany | Luftwaffe | 40 | | |
Wolf-Dietrich Huy | Germany | Luftwaffe | 40 | | |
Hermann Neuhoff | Germany | Luftwaffe | 40 | | |
Günter Steinhausen † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 40 | | |
Marmaduke 'Pat' Pattle † | South Africa | Royal Air Force | 40 | | Top British Commonwealth and South African ace, possibly 50+ victories |
Satoru Anabuki | Japan | Imperial Japanese Army | 39 | | 51 claimed |
Iyozo Fujita | Japan | Imperial Japanese Navy | 39 | | |
Eckart-Wilhelm von Bonin | Germany | Luftwaffe | 39 | | |
Cvitan Galić † | Croatia | Croatian Air Force | 38 | | |
Ernst Borngen | Germany | Luftwaffe | 38 | | |
Detlev Rohwer † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 38 | | |
Eduard Tratt † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 38 | | |
James Edgar "Johnnie" Johnson | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 38 | | |
Thomas B. McGuire † | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 38 | | |
Ivan Babak | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 37 | | |
Klaus Neumann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 37 | | Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262 |
Heinz Bretnutz | Germany | Luftwaffe | 37 | | |
Waldemar Radener | Germany | Luftwaffe | 37 | | |
Maximilian Volke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 37 | | |
Sergey Luganski | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 37 | | |
Hiroyoshi Nishizawa † | Japan | Imperial Japanese Navy | 36 | | Claimed 87 and up to 100-150 victories |
Olavi Puro | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 36 | | |
Nils Katajainen | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 35½ | | |
Gunther Bertram | Germany | Luftwaffe | 35 | | |
Petr Hnido | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 34 | | |
Paul Brandt | Germany | Luftwaffe | 34 | | |
David McCampbell | United States | U.S. Navy | 34 | | Top U.S. Navy ace, two-time ace in a day |
Toshio Ota † | Japan | Imperial Japanese Navy | 34 | | |
Ivan Stepanenko | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 33 | | |
Pierre Clostermann | France/ Brazil | Free French Air Force; Royal Air Force | 33 | | Top French ace |
Heinz Beyer | Germany | Luftwaffe | 33 | | |
Lauri Nissinen † | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 32½ | | |
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 | | |
Kazuo Sugino | Japan | Imperial Japanese Navy | 32 | | |
Adolph 'Sailor' Malan | South Africa | Royal Air Force | 32 | | |
George F. "Buzz" Beurling | Canada | Royal Air Force | 31.5 | | Top Canadian ace |
Hans-Karl Mayer † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 31 | +8 in Spanish Civil War | |
Alexandr Kumanichkin | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 31 | | |
Jorma Karhunen | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 31 | | |
Dezső Szentgyörgyi | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 30½ | | Top Hungarian ace |
Amet-Han Sultan | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 30 | | +19 shared |
Robert Roland Stanford Tuck | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 30 | | |
William Vale | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 30 | | +6 shared |
Franz Blazytko | Germany | Luftwaffe | 30 | | |
Max Bucholz | Germany | Luftwaffe | 30 | | Ace in a day |
Erich Bartz | Germany | Luftwaffe | 30 | | |
Friedrich-Karl "Nasen" Müller | Germany | Luftwaffe | 30 | | |
Erich Woitke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 30 | +4 in Spanish Civil War | |
Kaneyoshi Mutoh † | Japan | Imperial Japanese Navy | 30 | | |
Ryotaro Jobou | Japan | Imperial Japanese Army | 30 | | |
Emil Vesa | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 29½ | | |
Walter Adolph (officer) † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 29 | +1 in Spanish Civil War | |
Bob Braham | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 29 | | |
Clive Caldwell | Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 28½ | | Top Australian and P-40 ace of WWII. Ace in a day. |
Tapio Järvi | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 28½ | | |
Izidor Kovárik | Slovak Republic | Slovak Air Force | 28 | | possibly 29 |
Ernst Andres † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 28 | | |
Anton Benning | Germany | Luftwaffe | 28 | | |
Alfred Burk | Germany | Luftwaffe | 28 | | |
Hans-Heinrich Koenig † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 28 | | |
Yasuhiko Kuroe | Japan | Imperial Japanese Army | 28 | +2 in earlier Actions in Mongolia | 51 claimed |
"Paddy" Finucane † | Ireland | Royal Air Force | 28 | | Highest scoring Irish ace of all time. Youngest Wing Commander in history. |
"Ginger" Lacey | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 28 | | |
Francis "Gabby" Gabreski | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 28 | +6½ in Korean War | (+2½ ground kills) |
Gregory "Pappy" Boyington | United States | American Volunteer Group; U.S. Marine Corps | 28 | | 6 victories with AVG; 22 with USMC |
Saburō Sakai | Japan | Imperial Japanese Navy | 28 | | Includes unknown number of shared. Claims 64 total victories. |
Colin Falkland Gray | New Zealand | Royal Air Force | 27½ | | Top New Zealand ace |
Neville Duke | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 27 | | |
Karl Beckmann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 27 | | |
Emil Clade | Germany | Luftwaffe | 27 | | |
Josef Fözö | Germany | Luftwaffe | 27 | +3 in Spanish Civil War | |
Lothar Linke † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 27 | | |
Constantin Rozariu | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 27 | | |
Robert S. Johnson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 27 | | |
Charles H. MacDonald | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 27 | | |
Junichi Sasai † | Japan | Imperial Japanese Navy | 27 | | |
Sadaaki Akamatsu | Japan | Imperial Japanese Navy | 27 | | |
George E. Preddy, Jr. † | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 26.83 | | Ace in a day (+5 ground kills) |
Eric Lock † | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 26½ | | |
Klaus Alakoski | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 26 | | |
Willi Reschke | Germany | Luftwaffe | 26 | | |
Nobuo Ogiya | Japan | Imperial Japanese Navy | 26 | | |
Ján Gerthoffer | Slovak Republic | Slovak Air Force | 26 | | |
Joseph J. Foss | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 26 | | Top ace under USMC-only service |
Lev Shestakov † | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 65 | +39 in Spanish Civil War | |
György Debrődy | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 26 | | |
Lajos Tóth | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 26 | | |
Russell Bannock | Canada | Royal Canadian Air Force | 25½ | | includes 19 V-1 flying bombs |
Egon Albrecht-Lemke † | Nazi Germany/ Brazil | Luftwaffe | 25 | | |
Ludwig Bellof | Germany | Luftwaffe | 25 | | |
Wolfgang Lippert † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 25 | +5 in Spanish Civil War | |
Robert M. Hanson † | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 25 | | |
Boris Safonov † | Soviet Union | Soviet Naval Aviation | 25 | | +14 shared |
Naoshi Kanno | Japan | Imperial Japanese Navy | 25 | | |
László Molnár † | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 25 | | |
Frank Reginald Carey | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 25 | | |
John C. Meyer | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 24 | +2 in Korean War | (+13 ground kills) |
Cecil E. Harris | United States | U.S. Navy | 24 | | |
Peter Spoden | Germany | Luftwaffe | 24 | | Night Fighter Ace |
Marcel Albert | France | Free French Air Force | 23 | | Probably 2 more |
Douglas Bader | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 23 | | |
Eugene A. Valencia | United States | U.S. Navy | 23 | | |
Kalevi Tervo | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 23 | | |
Jorma Saarinen | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 23 | | |
Lance C. Wade † | United States | Royal Air Force | 23 | | |
Horst Patuschka † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 22 | | |
Eero Kinnunen | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 22½ | | |
David C. Schilling | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 22½ | | (+10½ ground kills) |
Rolf Pingel | Germany | Luftwaffe | 22 | +6 Spanish Civil War | |
Teresio Vittorio Martinoli † | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 22 | | Top scoring Italian ace of WWII; +14 shared |
Leonardo Ferrulli † | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 22 | | |
Fritz Müller | Germany | Luftwaffe | 22 | | Jet ace with 6 victories in Me 262 |
Artur Beese | Germany | Luftwaffe | 22 | | |
Edward F. Charles | Canada | Royal Canadian Air Force | 22 | | |
Alan Christopher Deere | New Zealand | Royal Air Force | 22 | | |
Gerald R. Johnson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 22 | | |
Neel E. Kearby † | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 22 | | |
Jay T. Robbins | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 22 | | |
Ion Mucenica | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 22 | | |
Dominic S. Gentile | United States | Royal Air Force; U.S. Army Air Forces | 21.83 | | 2 victories with RAF; 19.83 with USAAF (+7 ground kills) |
Donald Kingaby | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 21 | | +2 shared |
Antti Tani | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 21½ | | |
William V. Crawford-Crompton | New Zealand | Royal Air Force | 21½ | | |
Raymond Brown Hesselyn | New Zealand | Royal New Zealand Air Force | 21½ | | |
Fred J. Christensen | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 21½ | | |
Raymond S. Wetmore | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 21¼ | | (+2 ground kills) |
Branse Burbridge | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 21 | | Top RAF night fighter ace |
Archie McKellar † | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 21 | | Ace in a day |
Jean Demozay | France | Royal Air Force | 21 | | |
Franco Lucchini † | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 21 | +6 in Spanish Civil War | +52 shared |
Theodor Rossiwall | Germany | Luftwaffe | 21 | | |
Franz von Werra † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 21 | | |
John J. Voll | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 21 | | |
Kenneth A. Walsh | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 21 | | |
Paavo Myllylä | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 21 | | |
Walker 'Bud' Melville Mahurin | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 20.75 | +3½ in Korean War | |
Donald N. Aldrich | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 20 | | |
Rudolph Anter | Germany | Luftwaffe | 20 | | |
Helmut Baudach | Germany | Luftwaffe | 20 | | Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262 |
Paul Becker | Germany | Luftwaffe | 20 | | |
Hans Berschwinger | Germany | Luftwaffe | 20 | | |
Helmut-Felix Bolz | Germany | Luftwaffe | 20 | +3 in Spanish Civil War | |
Cristea Chirvasuta | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 20 | | |
Michael Crossley | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 20 | | |
Thomas J. Lynch † | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 20 | | |
Evan Mackie | New Zealand | Royal New Zealand Air Force | 20 | | +3 shared, 16 victories with Spitfires |
Henry Wallace McLeod † | Canada | Royal Canadian Air Force | 20 | | |
Gerhard Sommer † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 20 | | |
Robert B. Westbrook † | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 20 | | |
Vernon Crompton Woodward | Canada | Royal Air Force | 20 | | |
Geoffrey Allard | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 19 | | +5 shared |
Viktor Pyötsiä | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 19½ | | |
Väinö Suhonen | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 19½ | | |
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 | | |
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) |
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 | | (Romanian origin) |
Erik Teromaa | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 19 | | |
Constantin Lungulescu | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 19 | | |
Stanisław Skalski | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 18.91 | | Top Polish ace |
Arthur J. Benko | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 18½ | | |
Marion E. Carl | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 18½ | | |
Lauri Pekuri | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 18½ | | |
Leonard K. Carson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 18½ | | (+3½ ground kills) |
Glenn Eagleston | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 18½ | +2 in Korean War | (+5 ground kills) |
Wilbur J. Thomas | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 18½ | | |
Yukiyoshi Wakamatsu | Japan | Imperial Japanese Army | 18+ | | |
Tateo Kato | 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 | |
Witold Urbanowicz | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 18 | | |
Walter C. Beckham | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 18 | | |
Herschel H. Green | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 18 | | |
John C. "Pappy" Herbst | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 18 | | |
Albert Gerald Lewis | South Africa | Royal Air Force | 18 | | Ace in a day |
Miklós Kenyeres | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 18 | | (The only pilot who could recover his comrade - Gy. Debrődy - with Bf109 from behind the enemy line) |
Charles H. Older | United States | American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces | 18 | | 10 victories with AVG; 8 with USAAF |
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 | 17½ | | |
Duane W. Beeson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 17⅓ | | (+4.8 ground kills) |
Jouko Huotari | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 17½ | | |
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 | | (+14½ ground kills) |
Rudolf Božík | Slovak Republic | Slovak Air Force | 17 | | |
Ugo Drago | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 17 | | (11 RSI) |
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) |
Yrjö Turkka | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 17 | | |
Gerald W. Johnson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 17 | | |
James S. Varnell Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 17 | | |
Bolesław Gładych | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force/U.S. Army Air Forces | 17 | | Victories as Polish Air Force pilot flying with RAF and with USAAF |
Keith Truscott | Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 17 | | |
Stanley Orr | United Kingdom | Fleet Air Arm | 17 | | |
Tony Lovell | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 16½ | | 16 victories plus 6 shared victories |
Eugeniusz Horbaczewski | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 16½ | | |
William T. Klersey † | Canada | Royal Canadian Air Force | 16½ | | (+2 ground kills) |
Aulis Lumme | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 16½ | | |
James MacLachlan | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 16½ | | 7½ after the amputation of his left arm |
Eero Riihikallio | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 16½ | | |
Nigel Cullen | Australia | Royal Air Force | 16½ | | |
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 | | (+1 ground kill) |
Paul Galland | Germany | Luftwaffe | 16 | | |
Les Clisby | Australia | Royal Air Force | 16 | | |
Franjo Dzal | Croatia | Croatian Air Force | 16 | | |
Douglas Baker | United States | U.S. Navy | 16 | | |
James Francis Edwards | Canada | Royal Canadian Air Force | 16 | | |
Eero Halonen | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 16 | | |
Bill Harris | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 16 | | |
Buck McNair | Canada | Royal Canadian Air Force | 16 | | |
John Plagis | Rhodesia | Royal Air Force | 16 | | Top Rhodesian ace |
Ioan Dicezare | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 16 | | |
Ira C. Kepford | United States | U.S. Navy | 16 | | |
Charles R. Stimpson | United States | U.S. Navy | 16 | | |
Stan Turner | Canada | Royal Canadian Air Force | 16 | | |
William T. Whisner, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 16 | +5½ in Korean War | (+3½ ground kills) |
George Welch | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 16 | | |
Edmond Marin la Meslée | France | French Air Force | 16 | | |
Mario Visintini | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 16 | +1 in Spanish Civil War | Top Biplane ace of WWII (+32 ground kills) |
Vasile Gavriliu | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 16 | | |
Ernest Mason | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 15+ | | 2 shared |
John Lloyd Waddy | Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 15½ | | |
Donald M. Beerbower | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15½ | | |
Brian Carbury | New Zealand | Royal Air Force | 15½ | | Ace in a day |
Richard A. Peterson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15½ | | (+3½ ground kills) |
James E. Swett | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 15½ | | Ace in a day |
David Lee "Tex" Hill | United States | American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces | 15¼ | | 10¼ victories with AVG; 5 with USAAF |
Martti Alho | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 15 | | |
Ljudevit Bencetic | Croatia | Croatian Air Force | 15 | | |
Jack T. Bradley | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15 | | |
Samuel J. Brown | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15 | | |
Edward "Porky" Cragg | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15 | | |
František Cyprich | Slovak Republic | Slovak Air Force | 15 | | possibly 18 |
Kenneth H. Dahlberg | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 15 | | |
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 | | |
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 | | |
Dan Vizanti | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 15 | | |
Donald H. Bochkay | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14.84 | | |
Donald J. Blakeslee | United States | Royal Air Force; U.S. Army Air Forces | 14½ | | 3 victories with RAF; 11½ with USAAF |
John D. Landers | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14½ | | (+20 ground kills) |
Aaro Nuorala | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 14½ | | |
Joseph H. Powers, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14½ | | |
Johnnie Checketts | New Zealand | Royal New Zealand Air Force | 14½ | | |
Henry Brown | United States | U.S. Army Air Force | 14½ | | (+14.5 ground kills) |
Charles Scherf | Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 14½ | | (+9 ground kills) |
Mario Bellagambi | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 14 | | |
Svein Heglund | Norway | Royal Air Force | 14 | | |
Sophus Baagoe | Germany | Luftwaffe | 14 | | |
Günther Wegmann | Germany | Luftwaffe | 14 | | Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262 |
František Brezina | Slovak Republic | Slovak Air Force | 14 | | |
Bruce W. Carr | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | | (+10 ground kills) |
Robert C. Curtis | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | | |
Robert M. DeHaven | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | | |
Archie G. Donahue | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 14 | | |
Wallace N. Emmer | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | | |
James A. Goodson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | | (+13 ground kills) |
Arthur R. Hawkins | United States | U.S. Navy | 14 | | |
Arthur F. Jeffrey | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | | |
Edward O. McComas | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | | |
Elbert S. McCuskey | United States | U.S. Navy | 14 | | |
Daniel T. Roberts, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 14 | | |
John L. Wirth | United States | U.S. Navy | 14 | | |
István Fábián (pilot) | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 14 | | |
István Kálmán | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 14 | | |
William Henry Franklin | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 13½ | | |
George C. Duncan | United States | U.S. Navy | 13½ | | |
Pekka Kokko | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 13½ | | |
Heimo Lampi | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 13½ | | |
Roger W. Mehle | United States | U.S. Navy | 13½ | | |
Donald J. Strait | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13½ | | |
George Carpenter | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13.4 | | (+4 ground kills) |
Donald S. Bryan | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13.3 | | Ace in a day |
Helmut Lennartz | Germany | Luftwaffe | 13 | | Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262 |
Darrell S. Cramer | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | | |
John Wong Pan-Yang | United States | Chinese Nationalist Air Force | 13 | | U.S.-born volunteer |
James L. Brooks | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | | |
Jan Zumbach | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 13 | | |
Safet Boskic | Croatia | Croatian Air Force | 13 | | |
Mervyn Shipard | Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 13 | | |
Daniel A. Carmichael, Jr. | United States | U.S. Navy | 13 | | |
James N. Cupp | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 13 | | |
Clyde B. East | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | | |
Robert E. Galer | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 13 | | |
John F. Hampshire | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | | |
Bruce K. Holloway | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | | |
William P. Marontate | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 13 | | |
Willard. W. Millikan | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | | (+2 ground kills) |
Glennon T. Moran | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | | (+3 ground kills) |
Robert Neale | United States | American Volunteer Group | 13 | | (+2½ ground kills) |
László Pottyondi | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 13 | | |
László Máthé | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 13 | | |
Robin Olds | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | +4 in Vietnam War | (+11 ground kills) |
James O'Meara | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 13 | | |
Yrjö Pallasvuo | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 13 | | |
Harry A. Parker | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | | |
Roy W. Rushing | United States | U.S. Navy | 13 | | |
Edward O. Shaw | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 13 | | |
AJ "Jackie" Sewell | United Kingdom | Fleet Air Arm | 13 | | |
Robert W. Stephens | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | | |
John R. Strane | United States | U.S. Navy | 13 | | |
Robert Lee Scott, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | | |
Wendell V. Twelves | United States | U.S. Navy | 13 | | |
Tony Bartley | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 13 | | |
Ian Richard Gleed | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 13 | | |
Felix D. Williamson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 13 | | |
Tiberiu Vinca | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 13 | | |
Ioan Maga | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 13 | | |
Henryk Pietrzak | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 12½ | | |
Lasse Aaltonen | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 12½ | | |
Ted Thorn | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 12½ | | |
Hugo Armstrong | Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 12½ | | |
Andrew "Nicky" Barr | Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 12½ | | |
Tony Gaze | Australia | Royal Air Force | 12½ | | |
Lowell K. Brueland | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12½ | +2 in Korean War | |
Kenneth D. Frazier | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 12½ | | |
David Charles "Foob" Fairbanks | United States | Royal Canadian Air Force | 12½ | | |
Irving Farmer Kennedy | Canada | Royal Canadian Air Force | 12½ | | |
Eino Koskinen | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 12½ | | |
Onni Paronen | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 12½ | | |
Urho Sarjamo | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 12½ | | |
Per-Erik Sovelius | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 12½ | | |
James C. Stewart | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12½ | | (+1 ground kill) |
Quince L. Brown | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12⅓ | | (+2 ground kills) |
Luigi Baron | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 12 | | |
Mato Culinovic | Croatia | Croatian Air Force | 12 | | |
John A. Kent | Canada | Royal Air Force | 12 | | (+1 ground kill) |
Eduard Martinko | Croatia | Croatian Air Force | 12 | | |
Veca Mikovic | Croatia | Croatian Air Force | 12 | | |
Zlatko Stipcic | Croatia | Croatian Air Force | 12 | | |
Marian Pisarek | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 12 | | |
John Dundas | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 12 | | |
John Freeborn | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 12 | | |
Jozef Štauder | Slovak Republic | Slovak Air Force | 12 | | possibly 13 |
Pavol Zeleňák | Slovak Republic | Slovak Air Force | 12 | | |
Bruce Bretherton | Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 12 | | |
Charles Crombie | Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 12 | | |
Peter Turnbull | Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 12 | | |
John Yarra | Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 12 | | |
Anton Matúšek | Slovak Republic | Slovak Air Force | 12 | | |
Leo Ahokas | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 12 | | |
Michael Brezas | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | | |
Levi R. Chase | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | | |
Clement M. Craig | United States | U.S. Navy | 12 | | |
Nicholas Gresham Cooke † | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 12 | | Ace in a day |
David B. Eastham | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | | |
Loren D. Everton | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 12 | | |
Luigi Giannella | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 12 | | |
George W. Gleason | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | | (+2½ ground kills) |
Leroy E. Harris | United States | U.S. Navy | 12 | | |
Coatsworth B. Head, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | | |
Roger R. Hedrick | United States | U.S. Navy | 12 | | |
Howard D. Hively | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | | (+2½ ground kills) |
Georg Kraft † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 12 | | night fighter pilot with IV./NJG 1 |
Kenneth G. Ladd | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | | |
Albert Lippett † | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 12 | | Ace in a day. Turret gunner on a two-man fighter plane. |
Lydia Litvyak | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 12 | | Top female ace |
William J. Masoner, Jr. | United States | U.S. Navy | 12 | | |
Pierce McKennon | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | | (+9.7 ground kills) |
Robert W. Moore | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | | |
József Málik † | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 12 | | |
Ferenc Málnássy † | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 12 | | |
František Peřina | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 12 | | |
Michael J. Quirk | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | | (+5 ground kills) |
Attilio Sanson | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 12 | | |
LeRoy A. Schreiber | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | | (+2 ground kills) |
Harold E. Segal | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 12 | | |
James A. Shirley | United States | U.S. Navy | 12 | | |
Norman C. Skogstad | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | | |
William J. Sloan | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | | |
Giorgio Solaroli di Briona | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 12 | | |
Eugene A. Trowbridge | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | | |
Richard E. Turner | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | | possibly just 11 (+2 V-1 flying bombs) |
James A. Watkins | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | | |
Richard L. West | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 12 | | |
Nicholas Megura | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11.84 | | (+3.8 ground kills) |
George R. Carr | United States | U.S. Navy | 11½ | | |
James A. Clark, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11½ | | (+4½ ground kills) |
Paul A. Conger | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11½ | | |
Olin E. Gilbert | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11½ | | |
William T. Halton | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11½ | | (+2 ground kills) |
William J. Hovde | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11½ | +1 in Korean War | (+2 ground kills) |
John A. Kirla, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11½ | | (+½ ground kill) |
William N. Snider | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 11½ | | |
Albert O. Vorse Jr. | United States | U.S. Navy | 11½ | | |
Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11½ | | |
Liu Chi-Sheng / Liu Zhesheng | China | Chinese Nationalist Air Force | 11.3 | | Top Chinese ace |
Howard Mayers | Australia | Royal Air Force | 11.3 | | |
Louis H. Norley | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11.3 | | (+5 ground kills) |
Philip C. DeLong | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 11.2 | +2 in Korean War | |
Richard John Cork | United Kingdom | Fleet Air Arm | 11 | | Ace in a day |
Ian Bedford Nesbitt Russell | Australia | Royal Air Force | 11 | | |
Albin Starc | Croatia | Croatian Air Force | 11 | | |
Josip Helebrant | Croatia | Croatian Air Force | 11 | | |
Stjepan Martinasevic | Croatia | Croatian Air Force | 11 | | |
Harold W. Bauer | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 11 | | |
John T. Blackburn | United States | U.S. Navy | 11 | | |
William A. Dean, Jr. | United States | U.S. Navy | 11 | | |
László Dániel | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 11 | | |
Geoff Fisken | New Zealand | Royal New Zealand Air Force | 11 | | |
Carl M. Frantz | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | | |
James B. French (pilot) | United States | U.S. Navy | 11 | | |
Robert J. Goebel | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | | |
Ronald Hamlyn | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 11 | | Ace in a day |
Phillip L. Kirkwood | United States | U.S. Navy | 11 | | |
John B. Lawler | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | | |
Hemmo Leino | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 11 | | |
Francis J. Lent | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | | |
Leland P. Molland | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | | |
William L. Leverette | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | | |
John S. Loisel | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | | |
Wayne L. Lowry | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | | |
Carlo Magnaghi | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 11 | | |
Charles M. Mallory | United States | U.S. Navy | 11 | | |
Alexei Petrovich Maresiev | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 11 | | 3 victories after losing his legs |
Charles M. McCorkle | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | | |
Norman L. McDonald | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | | |
Hamilton McWhorter III | United States | U.S. Navy | 11 | | |
John W. Mitchell | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | +4 in Korean War | |
Urho Nieminen | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 11 | | |
Harvey P. Picken | United States | U.S. Navy | 11 | | |
James V. Reber, Jr. | United States | U.S. Navy | 11 | | |
Elmer W. Richardson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | | possibly just 8 |
Robert H. Riddle | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | | |
James F. Rigg | United States | U.S. Navy | 11 | | |
Donald E. Runyon | United States | U.S. Navy | 11 | | |
Donald H. Sapp | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 11 | | |
Murray Shubin | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | | |
Otto Smik | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 11 | | +3 V1 |
Cornelius Smith, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | | |
Giorgio Solaroli di Briona | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 11 | | |
Kenneth C. Sparks | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 11 | | |
Richard E. Stanbrook | United States | U.S. Navy | 11 | | |
Mario Veronesi | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 11 | | |
Virgil K. Meroney | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | | |
Ilkka Törrönen | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 11 | | |
Mario Veronesi | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 11 | | |
Ioan Malacescu | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 11 | | |
Teodor Zabava | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 11 | | |
George T. Burgard | United States | American Volunteer Group | 10.75 | | |
Frank Q. O'Conner | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10.75 | | |
Charles F. Anderson, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10½ | | (+5½ ground kills) |
Richard Joseph Audet † | Canada | Royal Canadian Air Force | 10½ | | Ace in a day |
Marshall U. Beebe | United States | U.S. Navy | 10½ | | |
George F. Ceulleers | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10½ | | |
Jack E. Conger | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 10½ | | |
George A. Doersch | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10½ | | (+½ ground kill) |
Niilo Erkinheimo | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 10½ | | |
William J. Hovde | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10½ | +4 in Korean War | (+2 ground kills) |
Martti Kalima | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 10½ | | |
Kullervo Lahtela | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 10½ | | |
Raymond H. Littge | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10½ | | (+13 ground kills) |
Kai Metsola | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 10½ | | |
John V. Newkirk | United States | American Volunteer Group | 10½ | | |
Eino Peltola | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 10½ | | |
Edward Rector | United States | American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces | 10½ | | 6½ victories with AVG; 4 with USAAF |
Russell E. Reiserer | United States | U.S. Navy | 10½ | | |
John A. Storch | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10½ | | (+1½ ground kills) |
John C. Symmes | United States | U.S. Navy | 10½ | | |
Robert E. Murray | United States | U.S. Navy | 10.4 | | |
Ralph E. Elliot | United States | U.S. Navy | 10.3 | | |
Fred W. Glover | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10.3 | | (+12½ ground kills) |
Bobby Gibbes | Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 10¼ | | |
William D. McGarry | United States | American Volunteer Group | 10¼ | | |
Stanley W. Vejtasa | United States | U.S. Navy | 10¼ | | Ace in a day |
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 | | |
Colin Parkinson | Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 10 | | |
Frank B. Baldwin | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 10 | | |
Wayne K. Blickenstaff | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | | |
Archie Boyd | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 10 | | |
Joseph E. Broadhead | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | | |
Carl A. Brown, Jr. | United States | U.S. Navy | 10 | | |
Thaddeus T. Coleman | United States | U.S. Navy | 10 | | |
William K. Giroux | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | | |
Walter J. Goehausen, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | | |
George Ernest Goodman † | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 10 | | (+6 shared) |
Ernest A. Harris | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | | |
Iro Ilk | Germany | Luftwaffe | 10 | | |
Alwin M. Juchheim, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | | (+6 ground kills) |
Veikko Karu | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 10 | | |
Mauno Kirjonen | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 10 | | |
Ahti Laitinen | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 10 | | |
Robert Little † | United States | American Volunteer Group | 10 | | |
Edward E. Lines | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | | |
Herbert H. Long | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 10 | | |
Thomas H. Mann, Jr. | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 10 | | |
Miroslav J. Mansfeld | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 10 | | + 2 V2 |
Joseph L. Mansker | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | | |
Harris E. Mitchell | United States | U.S. Navy | 10 | | |
Mikko Pasila | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 10 | | |
Steve Pisanos | Greece | Royal Air Force; U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | | |
Robert J. Rankin | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | | |
Thomas H. Reidy | United States | U.S. Navy | 10 | | |
Andrew J. Reynolds | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | | |
Robert L. Scott, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | | |
Arthur Singer, Jr. | United States | U.S. Navy | 10 | | |
John M. Smith | United States | U.S. Navy | 10 | | |
Claudio Solaro | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 10 | +1 in Spanish Civil War | |
Paul M. Stanch | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | | |
Josef Stehlík | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 10 | | |
Elliot Summer | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | | |
James S. Swope | United States | U.S. Navy | 10 | | |
Ennio Tarantola | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 10 | +1 in Spanish Civil War | |
Adriano Visconti | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 10 | | |
Robert V. Westermark | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 10 | | |
Ion Dobran | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 10 | | |
Nicolae Polizu-Micsunesti | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 10 | | |
Dumitru Ilie | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 10 | | |
Fletcher E. Adams | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 ½ | | |
Frederick Alan Aikman | Canada | Royal Canadian Air Force | 9 ½ | | |
Ernest E. Bankey, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 ½ | | (+8 ground kills) |
Leonard J. Check | United States | U.S. Navy | 9 ½ | | |
Edward Coate | Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 9 ½ | | |
Ernest C. Fiebelkorn | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 ½ | | possibly just 9 (+2 ground kills) |
Aleksander Gabszewicz | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 9 ½ | | |
Michał Maciejowski | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 9 ½ | | |
Dale F. Spencer | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 ½ | | (+½ ground kill) |
Robert C. Coats | United States | U.S. Navy | 9 ⅓ | | |
Mirosław Ferić | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 9 ⅓ | | |
Henryk Szczęsny | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 9 ⅓ | | |
Charles R. Bond | United States | American Volunteer Group | 9 ¼ | | |
Stephen W. Andrew | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | (+6½ ground kills) |
William M. Banks | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 ½ | | |
Emanuele Annoni | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 9 | | |
Lee "Buddy" Archer | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | (+6 ground kills) |
Roderick Bowes | Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 9 | | |
Aleksander Chudek | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 9 | | |
Edgar R. Bassett | United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | | |
Norman R. Berree | United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | | |
William R. Bland | United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | | |
George E. Bostwick | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | (+6 ground kills) |
Mark K. Bright | United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | | |
Paul D. Buie | United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | | |
Lajos Buday † | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 9 | | |
Henry A. Carey, Jr. | United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | | |
Frederick F. Champlin | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | |
Frank J. Collins | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | possibly just 8 |
William M. Collins, Jr. | United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | | |
Richard L. Cormier | United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | | |
Louis E. Curdes | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | |
Perry A. Dahl | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | |
Jefferson J. DeBlanc | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 9 | | Ace in a day |
Richard W. Dunkin | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | |
Charles H. Dyson | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 9 | | Ace in a day (six minutes) |
Richard T. Eastmond | United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | | |
Robert A. Elder | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | (+2 ground kills) |
Eugene H. Emmons | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | |
Jan Falkowski | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 9 | | |
Grover E. Fanning | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | |
Edward L. Feightner | United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | | |
Sylvan Feld | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | |
Joseph M. Forester | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | |
Marvin J. Franger | United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | | |
Doris C. Freeman | United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | | |
Kenneth W. Gallup | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | (+2 ground kills) |
Antoni Glowacki | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 9 | | Ace in a day |
Thomas S. Harris | United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | | |
Frederick R. Haviland, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | (+6 ground kills) |
Allen E. Hill | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | |
Frank D. Hurlburt | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | |
James Timothy Kearney | Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 9 | | |
George C. Kiser | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | |
Joseph J. Lesicka | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | |
Christopher L. Magee | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 9 | | |
Louis A. Menard, Jr. | United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | | |
Virgil K. Merony | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | |
Stanley B. Morrill | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | |
Walter Omiccioli | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 9 | | |
Edmund F. Overend | United States | American Volunteer Group; U.S. Marine Corps | 9 | | 5 victories with AVG; 4 with USMC |
Lloyd J. Overfield | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | |
Joel B. Paris III | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | |
Eugene D. Redmond | United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | | |
William N. Reed | United States | American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | 3 victories with AVG; 6 with USAAF |
Daniel R. Rehm, Jr. | United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | | |
Eugene P. Roberts | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | |
Hans-Ulrich Rudel | Germany | Luftwaffe | 9 | | Also a top ground attack pilot, with 2000+ targets destroyed |
Meryl M. Smith | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | |
Robert T. Smith | United States | American Volunteer Group | 9 | | |
Natalino Stabile | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 9 | + 1 in Spanish Civil War | |
James S. Stewart | United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | | |
John S. Stewart | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | |
Franklin C. Thomas, Jr. | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 9 | | |
Arthur Van Haren, Jr. | United States | U.S. Navy | 9 | | |
Benjamin F. Warmer | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | |
Robert H. White | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | |
Isamu Kashiide | Japan | Imperial Japanese Army | 9 | | claims 26 B-29s and 7 Soviet fighters |
Judge E. Wolfe | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | |
Gheorghe Popescu Ciocanel | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 9 | | |
Stefan Greceanu | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 9 | | |
Gheorghe Cocebas | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 9 | | |
Andrei Radulescu | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 9 | | |
Charles E. Watts | United States | U.S. Navy | 8.75 | | |
John L. Banks | United States | U.S. Navy | 8½ | | |
William E. Bryan, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8½ | | |
Stanisław Brzeski | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 8½ | | |
James B. Cain | United States | U.S. Navy | 8½ | | |
Charles J. Cesky | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8½ | | |
Oscar I. Chenoweth | United States | U.S. Navy | 8½ | | |
Arthur Chin | United States | Chinese Nationalist Air Force | 8½ | | First American born/citizen ace of WWII, flew biplane fighter |
Frank A. Cutler | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8½ | | (+3 ground kills) |
Carl C. Foster | United States | U.S. Navy | 8½ | | |
John F. Gray | United States | U.S. Navy | 8½ | | |
Everett G. Hargreaves | United States | U.S. Navy | 8½ | | |
Thomas L. Hayes, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8½ | | |
Zdzisław Henneberg † | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 8½ | | |
John H. Hoefker | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8½ | | |
Otto D. Jenkins | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8½ | | (+2 ground kills) |
Arthur G. Johnson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8½ | | |
George Noel Keith † | Canada | Royal Canadian Air Force | 8½ | | |
Wacław Król | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 8½ | | |
Frank L. Lawlor | United States | American Volunteer Group | 8½ | | |
Gregory K. Loesch | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 8½ | | |
Carl J. Luksic | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8½ | | (+7 ground kills) |
Donald McDowell | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8½ | | |
Bernard J. McGrattan | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8½ | | |
Sanford K. Moats | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8½ | | |
John L. Morgan, Jr. | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 8½ | | |
George W. Pigman | United States | U.S. Navy | 8½ | | |
Claude W. Plant | United States | U.S. Navy | 8½ | | |
Albert L. Schlegel | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8½ | | |
Dallas Schmidt | Canada | Royal Canadian Air Force | 8½ | | |
Larry R. Self | United States | U.S. Navy | 8½ | | |
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 | | |
James H. Howard | United States | American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces | 8⅓ | | 2⅓ victories with AVG; 6 with USAAF |
Franklin T. Gabriel | United States | U.S. Navy | 8¼ | | |
George B. 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 | | |
Erich Büttner | Germany | Luftwaffe | 8 | | Jet ace with all victories in Me 262 |
John M. Ainlay | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | possibly just 7 |
John R. Alison | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
David W. Allen (USAAF) | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Frederick A. Bardshar | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | | |
Lloyd G. Barnard | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | | |
Walter G. Benz, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
William J. Bonneau | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | | |
Robert J. Booth | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Roy O. Burnett, Jr. | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | | |
Walter J. Carroll, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
William N. Case | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | | |
J. D. Collinsworth | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | possibly just 6 |
Arthur W. Cruikshank | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Václav Cukr-Cooper | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 8 | | |
Fernley H. Damstrom | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
John F. Dobbin | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | | |
Landis E. Doner | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | | |
Frederick J. Dorsch | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Walter F. Duke | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
William C. Edens | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | (+3 ground kills) |
John L. Elder | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | (+13 ground kills) |
Eric A. Evenson | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | | |
Arthur C. Fielder, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Francis M. Fleming | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | | |
James M. Fowle | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
William A. Gardner | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Frank Gaunt | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | possibly just 7 |
Francis R. Gerard | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Clement D. Gile | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | | |
Maxwell H. Glenn | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | possibly just 5 (+3 ground kills) |
Mathew M. Gordon | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Leroy V. Grosshuesch | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Fred E. Gutt | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | | |
Mayo A. Hadden, Jr. | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | | |
Aladár Heppes | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 8 | | (Commander of the 101st "Puma" Fighter Wing) |
Frederick A. Harris | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Kenneth F. Hart | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Edwin J. Herman (or Hernan), Jr. | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | | |
George L. Hollowell | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | | |
Angus Horne | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 8 | | |
Jack M. Ilfrey | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Michael J. Jackson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | (+5½ ground kills) |
Byron M. Johnson | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | | |
John M. Johnson | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | | |
John L. Jones | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Claiborne H. Kinnard | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | (+17 ground kills) |
Pál Kovács (pilot) † | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 8 | | |
Charles M. Kunz | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | | |
William N. Leonard | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | | |
Elvin L. Lindsay | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | | |
Thomas E. Maloney | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | possibly just 7 |
William R. Maxwell | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | | |
Earl May, Jr. | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | | |
Johnnie G. Miller | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | | |
Erich Mix | Germany | Luftwaffe | 8 | +3 in World War I | possibly 13 |
William W. Momyer | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Douglas W. Mulcahey | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | | |
Alva C. Murphy | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Joseph L. Narr | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | | |
George P. Novotny | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 9 | | |
John G. O'Neill | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Edward M. Owen | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | | |
Nathan T. Post | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | | |
Luther D. Prater, Jr. | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | | |
Edward F. Roddy | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Robert R. Rowland | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Philip Sangermano (FO) | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Charles W. Sawyer | United States | American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | 2¼ victories with AVG; 5¾ with USAAF |
Glenn D. Schiltz Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
David A. Scott | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | | possibly 9 |
Dale E. Shafer | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Robert M. Shaw | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
William A. Shomo | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Robert H. Smith | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Gordon Arthur Stanley | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | | |
Arland Stanton | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
John L. Sublett | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Leopold Šrom | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 8 | | |
James B. Tapp | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Philip Edward Tovrea Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
James O. Tyler | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
John W. Vogt, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Boyd D. "Buzz" Wagner | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | First U.S. Armed Forces ace, within nine days of Attack on Pearl Harbor |
Victor E. Warford | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | |
Arthur T. Warner | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | | |
Charles E. Weaver | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 8 | | (+3 ground kills) |
Hans-Dieter Weihs | Germany | Luftwaffe | 8 | | Jet ace with all victories in Me 262 |
Norman. F Williams | Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 8 | | Bomber rear gunner, only non-fighter pilot ace of WWII |
Rex Kerslake Wilson | Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 8 | | |
Theodore H. Winters, Jr. | United States | U.S. Navy | 8 | | |
Donald K. Yost | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 8 | | |
Dan Scurtu | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 8 | | |
Traian Dirjan | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 8 | | |
Eugen Cameceanu | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 8 | | |
Mihai Mihordea | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 8 | | |
Ioan Panaite | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 8 | | |
Joseph L. Lang | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7.83 | | |
Everett W. Stewart | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7.83 | | (+1.5 ground kills) |
Józef Jeka | Poland | Polish Air Forces/Royal Air Force | 7½ | | |
Henryk Pietrzak | Poland | Polish Air Forces/Royal Air Force | 7½ | | |
Howard M. Burriss | United States | U.S. Navy | 7½ | | |
Kenneth J. Dahms | United States | U.S. Navy | 7½ | | |
Noel le Chevalier Agazarian † | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 7 | | |
Alfred Ambs | Germany | Luftwaffe | 7 | | Jet ace with all victories in Me 262 |
William Y. Anderson | Sweden | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | | (+1 V-1 flying bomb) |
Karl-Heinz Becker | Germany | Luftwaffe | 7 | | Jet ace with all victories in Me 262 |
Rolf Arne Berg † | Norway | Royal Air Force | 7 | | |
Marian Bełc | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 7 | | |
Harry W. Brown | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | | |
Liu Chui-Kang / Liu Cuigang | China | Chinese Nationalist Air Force | 7 | | |
Robert A. Dibb | United States | U.S. Navy | 7 | | |
Furio Niclot Doglio | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 7 | | |
Bolesław Drobiński | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 7 | | |
Helmut Eberspächer | Germany | Luftwaffe | 7 | | |
Hugh C. Godefroy | Canada | Royal Air Force; Royal Canadian Air Force | 7 | | (Dutch birth) |
Gordon M. Graham | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | | (+9.5 ground kills) |
Roger Haberman | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 7 | | |
Pál Irányi | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 7 | | |
Václav Jícha | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 7 | | |
Stanisław Karubin | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 7 | | |
Konstantin Kokkinaki | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Forces | 7 | (+7 in the Second Sino-Japanese War)[2] | |
Franz Köster | Germany | Luftwaffe | 7 | | Jet ace with all victories in Me 262 |
Otmar Kučera | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 7 | | |
Wolfgang Kuthe † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 7 | | night fighter pilot with IV./NJG 1 |
Béla Lipcsey | Hungary | Luftwaffe | 7 | | (He served in the Luftwaffe and scored the 7 victories in I./JG27, his German name is Adalbert von Lipcsey) |
Bert W. Marshall, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | | (+4 ground kills) |
Iosif Moraru | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 7 | | |
Liviu Muresan | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 7 | | |
Giuseppe Oblach | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 7 | | |
Edward "Butch" O'Hare † | United States | U.S. Navy | 7 | | |
Sammy A. Pierce | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | | |
Stanislav Plzák | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 7 | | |
Constantin Pomut | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 7 | | |
Walter Prues | Germany | Luftwaffe | 7 | | Night Fighter |
Arval J. Roberson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | | (+1 ground kill) |
Ferruccio Serafini | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 7 | | |
Ernest Shipman | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | | |
Parsifal Stefanescu | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 7 | | |
Kálmán Szeverényi † | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 7 | | |
György Ujszászy | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 7 | | |
Tomáš Vybíral | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 7 | | |
Sydney S. Woods | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | | |
Robert E. Woody | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 7 | | (+2 ground kills) |
Karol Pniak | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 6.75 | | |
Basil Gerald "Stapme" Stapleton | South Africa | Royal Air Force | 6.66 | | |
Howard Peter Blatchford † | Canada | Royal Canadian Air Force | 6½ | | |
Lloyd Chadburn † | Canada | Royal Canadian Air Force | 6½ | | |
Willard Eder | United States | U.S. Navy | 6½ | | |
Russell Foskett | Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 6½ | | |
Wacław Łapkowski | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 6.33 | | |
Alan Peart | New Zealand | Royal Air Force | 6.33 | +9 damaged | Victories against planes from Italy, Germany and Japan |
Horia Agarici | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 6 | | |
Florin Alexiu | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 6 | | |
GianLino Baschirotto | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 6 | +5 in Spanish Civil War | |
Livio Bassi | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 6 | | |
Wolfrat Bauer † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 6 | | Staffelkapitän of 7./NJG 1 |
Henry S. Bille | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | | (+4 ground kills) |
Scrappy Blumer | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | | 5 kills in 15 minutes, "Fastest Ace-in-a-Day" |
Yekaterina Budanova | Soviet Union | Soviet Air Force | 6 | | possibly 11, +5 shared |
James B. Dalglish | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | | (+3 V-1 flying bombs) |
František Doležal | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 6 | | |
Josef Dygrýn-Ligotický | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 6 | | |
Stanislav Fejfar | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 6 | | |
Guido Fibbia | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 6 | +3 in Spanish Civil War | |
Ervin Flóznik † | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | | |
William B. Freeman | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 6 | | |
Fred R. Haviland, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | | (+6 ground kills) |
James P. Hagerstrom | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | | |
Stefan Janus | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 6 | | |
Oskar Köstler † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 6 | | |
Fritz Kruse † | Germany | Luftwaffe | 6 | | night fighter pilot with 3./NJG 1 |
Kenneth Lake | United States | U.S. Navy | 6 | | |
Mihály Karátsonyi | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | | |
Lajos Kracsenics | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | | |
Mátyás Lőrincz † | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | | |
János Mátyás | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | | |
György Michna | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | | |
Norman W. Mollard, Jr. | United States | U.S. Navy | 6 | | |
Kálmán Nánási † | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | | |
Norman E. Olson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | | (+2 ground kills) |
Theo Osterkamp | Germany | Luftwaffe | 6 | +32 in World War I | |
Edward Cobb Outlaw | United States | U.S. Navy | 6 | | Ace in a day |
Imre Pánczél † | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | | (First Ace of the RHAF in the second World War) |
Ludwik Witold Paszkiewicz | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 6 | | |
Eduard M. Prchal | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 6 | | |
Radu Reinek | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 6 | | |
Thomas J. Rennemo | United States | U.S. Navy | 6 | | |
Pál Szikora | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 6 | | |
Gheorghe Tutuianu | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 6 | | |
Constantin Ursachi | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 6 | | |
Remy Van Lierde | Belgium | Royal Air Force | 6 | | (+44 V-1 flying bombs) |
Ioan Vornica | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 6 | | |
James Henry Whalen † | Canada | Royal Canadian Air Force | 6 | | |
William E. Whalen | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | | (+2 ground kills) |
Lynn E. Witt, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 6 | | |
Yue Yi-Chin / Yue Yiqin | China | Chinese Nationalist Air Force | 6 | | |
Dean (Diz) S. Laird | United States | U.S. Navy | 5¾ | | Only US Navy ace to have victories against German and Japanese planes |
Gordon B. Compton | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5½ | | (+15 ground kills) |
Norman J. Fortier | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5.83 | | (+5.5 ground kills) |
Walter J. Koraleski | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5.54 | | |
William Cundy | Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 5½ | | |
Charles W. Lenfest | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5½ | | (+2 ground kills) |
Leslie D. Minchew | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5½ | | (+ 1/2 ground kills) |
Laurence Stark | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 5½ | | |
Kazimierz Rutkowski | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 5½ | | |
Stefan Witorzeńć | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 5½ | | |
Czesław Główczyński | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 5½ | | |
Michał Cwynar | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 5½ | | |
Mieczysław Mümler | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 5½ | | |
Bolesław Własnowolski | Poland | Polish Air Force/Royal Air Force | 5½ | | |
James E. Duffy, Jr | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5.2 | | (+9 ground kills) |
Raymond B. Myers | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | (+4 ground kills) |
William J. Cullerton | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | (+15 ground kills) |
Hayden A. "Buck" Gregory | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Otto Böhner | Germany | Luftwaffe | 5 | | |
František Chábera | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 5 | | |
Joseph Heim | Germany | Luftwaffe | 5 | | Jet ace with all victories in Me 262 |
Alfred Schreiber | Germany | Luftwaffe | 5 | | Jet ace – first ever confirmed – with all victories in Me 262 |
Ulrich Steinhilper | Germany | Luftwaffe | 5 | | |
Tony Jonsson | Iceland | Royal Air Force | 5 | | |
Pentti Tilli | Finland | Finnish Air Force | 5 | | |
Robert W. Abernathy | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Fred T. Ackerman | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Oliver L. Adair | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Robert H. Adams (USAAF) | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
John W. Agnew | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
William H. Allen (USAAF) | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Stuart C. Alley Jr | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Ernest J. Ambort | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Robert H. Ammon | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | (+9 ground kills) |
Benjamin C. Amsden | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Leslie E. Anderson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Richard H. Anderson (USAAF) | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Lester L. Arasmith | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Lee Archer | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | Only African-American ace |
William E. Aron | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Richard W. Asbury | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Abner M. Aust | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Eugene D. Axtell | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Donald A. Baccus | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Jack A. Bade | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Oscar C. Bailey | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Raphael F. Baird | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Donald L. Balch | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Robert P. Baldwin | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Raymond W. Bank | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Bruce M. Barackman | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Rex T. Barber | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Robert M. Barkey | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Truman S. Barnes | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Albert Baumler | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | +6 in Spanish Civil War | |
Aaron L. Bearden | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Edward H. Beavers Jr | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
József Bejczi † | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 5 | | |
Louis Benne | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Jack S. Berkheimer | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Richard L. Bertelson | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
James D. Billo | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Lewis S. Bishop | United States | American Volunteer Group | 5 | | |
Walter D. Bishop | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Foster J. Blair | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
William K. Blair | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Richard B. Blaydes | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Ladislav Bobek | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 5 | | |
Victor E. Bocquin | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
John W. Bolyard | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Robert R. Bonebrake | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Robert R. Bonner Jr | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Guy P. Bordelon | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Clarence A. Borley | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Ernest O. Bostrom | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Wilbur L. Bowen | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Fred E. Bowker | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
John L. Bradley | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Richard L. Braun | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Gerald A. Brown | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Jasper R. Brown | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Paul J. Bruneau | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Robert L. Buchanan | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Robert G. Burns | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Robert L. Byrnes | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
John B. Carder | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
William A. Carlton | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Nial K. Castle | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Henry K. Champion | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
George T. Chandler | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Van E. Chandler | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | +3 in Korean War | |
Joseph J. Cielinski | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Arthur B. Cleaveland | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Donald C. Clements | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Robert E. Clements | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Dallas A. Clinger | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Vivian A. Cloud | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Paul R. Cochran | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
William F. Collins | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Philip E. Colman | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | +4 in Korean War | |
Harold E. Comstock | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Harry L. Condon | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Merle M. Coons | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Leland B. Cornell | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Ralph L. Cox | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Niven K. Cranfill | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
William S. Crombie | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
John O. Cross | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Omer W. Culbertson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Arthur C. Cundy | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Warren D. Curton | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Evžen Čížek | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 5 | | |
William A. Daniel | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Clarence E. Davies | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Leonard K. Davis | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
George E. Dawkins Jr | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Roald Dahl | United Kingdom | Royal Air Force | 5 | | |
William C. Day Jr | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Richard S. Deakins | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
George Della | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Reuben H. Denoff | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Frederick E. Dick | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Michael Dikovitsky | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Harry W. Dorris | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Cecil J. Doyle | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Charles W. Drake | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Daniel B. Driscoll | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Willie Driscoll | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Francis E. Dubisher | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Charles H. Dubois | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
James E. Duffy (USN) | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Richard E. Duffy | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Joseph L. Egen Jr | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Hugh M. Elwood | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
James W. Empey | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Lyle A. Erickson | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Herman E. Ernst | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Charles D. Farmer | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Robert A. Farnsworth Jr | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
William Farrell (USMC) | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Richard D. Faxon | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Marion C. Felts | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
James E. Fenex Jr | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
William Fiedler (USAAF) | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Virgil C. Fields Jr | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Howard J. Finn | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Charles R. Fischette | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Harry E. Fisk | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Nelson D. Flack Jr | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Kenneth A. Flinn | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Ralph E. Foltz | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Paul J. Fontana | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Claude E. Ford | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Kenneth M. Ford | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
George Formanek Jr | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Béla Füleky † | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 5 | | |
Bohumil Fürst-Fiřt | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 5 | | |
Dwight B. Galt | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Warner F. Gardner | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Noel Gayler | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Steven N. Gerick | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Grover D. Ghelson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Robert D. Gibb | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Cyrus R. Gladen | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Lindley W. Godson | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Norman D. Gould | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Giorgio Graffer | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 5 | | |
Robert F. Graham | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Vernon E. Graham | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | Ace in a day |
Hayden A. Gregory | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Robert C. Griffith | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
William Grosvenor Jr | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Lindsay W. Grove | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Cheatham W. Gupton | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Albert E. Hacking | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Samuel E. Hammer | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Harry T. Hanna | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Christopher J. Hansenman | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Josef G. Hanuš | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 5 | | |
Walter R. Harman | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Thomas L. Harris (USAAF) | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Raymond E. Hartley | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Herbert B. Hatch | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Charles D. Hauver | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Sándor Hautzinger | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 5 | | |
Russell C. Haworth | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Frank R. Hayde | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Frank C. Hearrell | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Charles F. Held Jr | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Paul M. Henderson Jr | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Randall W. Hendricks | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
James E. Hill | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Richard Hope Hillary | Australia | Royal Air Force | 5 | | (+2 probables) |
Donald E. Hillman | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Kenneth G. Hippe | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Edwin M. Hiro | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Myron M. Hnatio | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
John B. Hoag | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
William R. Hodges | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Cullen J. Hoffman | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Louis Hoffman | United States | American Volunteer Group | 5 | | |
Herbert N. Houck | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Edward R. Hoyt | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Mark E. Hubbard | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Howard R. Hudson | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Alvaro J. Hunter | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
András Huszár | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 5 | | |
Joseph W. Icard | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Julius W. Ireland | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Clayton M. Isaacson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Svatopluk Janouch | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 5 | | |
Hayden M. Jensen | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Evan M. Johnson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Wallace R. Johnson | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Curran L. Jones | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Frank C. Jones | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | (+ 5.5 ground kills) |
Lynn F. Jones | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Warren L. Jones | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Joseph W. Jorda | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
William M. Julian | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Charles Kendrick | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Daniel Kennedy | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Robert H. Kidwell | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Melvin B. Kimball | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
John R. Kincaid | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Charles W. King (USAAF) | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
David L. King | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Marion F. Kirby | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Lenton F. Kirkland | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Ernő Kiss (pilot) | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 5 | | |
Jan Klán | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 5 | | |
Robert H. Knapp | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Carroll S. Knott | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Edward H. Kopsel | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
William J. Kostic | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Bedřich Krátkoruký | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 5 | | |
Jiří V. Kučera | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 5 | | |
Wayne W. Laird | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Richard C. Lampe | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Willis Laney | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Ned W. Langdon | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Thomas G. Lanphier | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Franklin C. Lathrope | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Charles H. Laughlin | United States | American Volunteer Group | 5 | | |
George Laven | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Earl R. Lazear | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Harold K. Lee | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Richard J. Lee | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Marlow J. Leikness | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Charles W. Lenfest | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Jack Lenox Jr | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
John A. Leppla | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Alfred B. Lewelling | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Brooks J. Liles | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | +4 in Korean War | |
Hugh D. Lillie | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
James W. Little | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | +1 in Korean War | |
John Lolos | Greece | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Charles P. London | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Donald Lopez | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
George G. Loving, Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
John F. Luma | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Lowell C. Lutton | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
John A. Mackay | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Morton D. Magoffin | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Keith Mahon | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Jackson C. Mankin | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Lee P. Mankin | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Harry A. March Jr | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Luigi Mariotti | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 5 | | |
Lester C. Marsh | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Albert E. Martin Jr | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Kenneth R. Martin | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Joseph L. Mason | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
William H. Mathis | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Joseph Z. Matte | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Chester K. Maxwell | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Benjamin I. Mayo | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Paul G. McArthur | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Henry A. McCartney Jr | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Leo B. McCudden | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
William F. McDownough | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
James N. McElroy | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | (+6 ground kills) |
John L. McGinn | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Selva E. McGinty | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Samuel E. McGuffin | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
John W. McGuyrt | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Donald J. McKinley | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
George. McMillan | United States | American Volunteer Group | 5 | | |
Evan D. MacMinn | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Donald M. McPherson | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
George L. Merritt Jr | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | (+6 ground kills) |
Frederick H. Michaelis | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Everett Miller | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Joseph E. Miller | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Robert C. Milliken | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Charles Milton | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Marinos Mitralexis | Greece | Greek Air Force | 5 | | |
Arthur P. Mollenhauer | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Franklin H. Monk | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Robert H. Moore | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Paul V. Morriss | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Arthur H. Munson | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Jennings S. Myers | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Joseph R. Myshrall | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Leslie D. Nelson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Robert J. Nelson | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Franklin A. Nichols | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Edward M. Nollmeyer | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Marvin R. Novak | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Jack G. Oberhansky | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Frank O'Brien Jr | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Edwin L. Olander | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Austin L. Olsen | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Paul E. Olson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Enzo Omiccioli | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 5 | | |
Eugene W. O'Neill Jr | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Lawrence F. O'Neill | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Ernest K. Osher | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Robert J. Overcash | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Edward W. Overton Jr | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Joel A. Owens | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Melvyn R. Paisley | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Tibor Papp | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 5 | | |
Forrest F. Parham | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Edsel Paulk | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Oscar F. Perdomo | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | Ace in a day |
John Petach | United States | American Volunteer Group | 5 | | |
Costantino Petrosellini | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 5 | | |
David P. Philips III | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Edward A. Phillips | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Hyde Phillips | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Kenneth R. Pool | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Edward S. Popek | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Robert B. Porter | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | Only Marine to score kills in both the F4U and the F6F. Shot down 2 Japanese planes in 1 night. |
George H. Poske | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Ernest A. Powell | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
MacArthur Powers | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Jack C. Price | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Royce W. Priest | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Roger C. Pryor | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Josef Příhoda | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 5 | | |
Rajmund Půda | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 5 | | |
Donald L. Quigley | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Robert J. Raines | United States | American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | 3 victories with AVG; 2 with USAAF |
Orvin H. Ramlo | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
WIlliam C. Reese | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Joseph E. Reulet | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Thomas W. Rhodes | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Vincent A. Rieger | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Andrew Ritchey | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Newell O. Roberts | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Leroy W. Robinson | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Ross F. Robinson | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Franklin Rose | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
János Róza | Hungary | Royal Hungarian Air Force | 5 | | (In the beginning he was Stuka pilot in the 2/2. later 102. Stukasquadron, he achieved his victories with FW 190 in the 102/1. Fighterbomber squadron.) |
Gerald L. Rounds | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Henry S. Rudolph | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
William A. Rynne | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Hartwell V. Scarborough | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Thomas D. Schank | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Gordon E. Schecter | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
John L. Schell | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Raymond Scherer | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
James F. Schilke | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Louis Schriber | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Duerr H. Schuh | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Robert B. Schultz | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Harry H. Sealey | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Alexander F. Sears | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Robert B. See | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Carlo Seganti | Italy | Regia Aeronautica | 5 | | |
Robert K. Seidman | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Charles A. Shields | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Lester H. Sipes | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Frank Sistrunk | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Jack R. Smith | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Kenneth B. Smith (USAAF) | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Kenneth D. Smith | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Virgil H. Smith | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Irl V. Sonner Jr | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
James J. Southerland | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Arthur Spurgin | Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | 5 | | |
Clyde P. Spitler | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
William J. Stangel | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Morris A. Stanley | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Edgar E. Stebbins | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Edward J. Stefanski | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Raymond D. Stehle | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Carl V. Stone | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Johnnie C. Strange | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Richard C. Suehr | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Charles P. Sullivan | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Robert C. Sutcliffe | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
John F. Sutherland | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Ladislav Světlík | Czechoslovakia | Royal Air Force | 5 | | |
John F. Swinburne Jr. | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
William J. Sykes | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | (+5 ground kills) |
Stanley Synar | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Oliver B. Taylor | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
William W. Taylor (USN) | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Robert D. Thompson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
John A. Tilley | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Edward W. Toaspern | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
John W. Topliff | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Harrison B. Tordoff | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Ross E. Torkelson | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Eugene P. Townsend | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Clifton H. Troxell | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Peter J. Van Der Linden | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Rudolph D. Van Dyke | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Robert H. Vaught Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
John E. Vogt | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Horace Q. Waggoner | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | (+7.5 ground kills) |
Walter B. Walker Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Lyttleton T. Ward | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Jack R. Warren | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Ralph J. Watson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Sidney W. Wheatherford | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Willard J. Webb | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Gregory J. Weissenberger | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Darrell G. Welch | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Albert P. Welles | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Robert G. West | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Harry S. White | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
John H. White (USAAF) | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
David C. Wilhelm | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Paul H. Wilkins | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
William F. Wilson | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Russell D. Williams | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Robert A. Winston | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Ralph L. Wire | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Lee V. Wiseman | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
John L. Wolford | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
George L. Wrenn | United States | U.S. Navy | 5 | | |
Max J. Wright | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Vasseure F. Wynn | United States | Royal Air Force; U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | 2.5 victories with RAF; 2.5 with USAAF |
Robert R. Yaeger Jr. | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Robert M. York | United States | U.S. Army Air Forces | 5 | | |
Michael R. Yunck | United States | U.S. Marine Corps | 5 | | |
Aurel Tifrea | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | | |
Constantin Popescu | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | | |
Constantin Nicoară | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | | |
Petre Cordescu | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | | |
Aurel Tifrea | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | | |
Hariton Dusescu | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | | |
Vintilă Brătianu | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | | |
Nicolae Burileanu | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | | |
Laurențiu Catană | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | | |
Erich Selei | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | | |
Gheorghe Cristea | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | | |
Mircea Dumitrescu | Romania | Royal Romanian Air Force | 5 | | |