List of World War II flying aces

Fighter aces in World War II had tremendously varying kill scores, affected as they were by many factors: the pilot's skill level, the performance of the airplane the pilot flew and the planes they flew against, how long they served, their opportunity to meet the enemy in the air (Allied to Axis disproportion), whether they were the formation's leader or a wingman, the standards their air service brought to the awarding of victory credits, et cetera.

Towards the end of the war, the Axis powers had largely exhausted their supply of skilled pilots and the replacements did not have as much opportunity to gain enough experience to be successful. Additionally, national policies differed; German, Italian, and Japanese ^[1] pilots tended to return to the cockpit over and over again until they were killed. ^{[N 1]}

It is not clear what impact each nation's rules for score crediting have on the counts listed below. Germans credited a shared victory to only one pilot, while the French credited full victory to all participants. British, Finnish and US air forces credited fractional shares of aerial victories, resulting in fractions, such as 11½, which might be for example 10 aircraft and three shares with the second pilot. Some U.S. commands also credited aircraft destroyed on the ground. The Soviets counted only solo kills, while group kills were counted separately, as did the Japanese. The Italian Air Force did not officially credit victories to individual pilots, but to their unit as a whole. Probable kills are usually left out of the list.

It is necessary to emphasize that the question of assessing and comparing the success rate of fighters by number of victories is one of the more problematic. There are disputes about what is "shot down" and what is "air victory", but the most problematic seems to be credibility of reports and reliability of its confirmation, which was substantially different in particular air forces. The most reliable is considered the confirmation of the victories in RAF, which based its counts on comparison of testimonials of participants and –if possible –film material.

Gallery

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  Erich Hartmann, the highest scoring German and all time ace
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  Ivan Kozhedub, the highest scoring Soviet and highest scoring Allied ace
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  Constantin Cantacuzino, the highest scoring Romanian ace and the 3rd highest scoring ace of the European Axis powers
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  Mato Dukovac, the highest scoring Croatian ace
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  Ilmari Juutilainen, the top flying ace of the Finnish Air Force and the highest scoring non-German fighter pilot of all time
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  Marmaduke 'Pat' Pattle, the highest scoring United Kingdom and Empire ace
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  George Beurling, the highest scoring Canadian ace
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  Richard Bong, the highest scoring US ace
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  Pierre Clostermann, the highest scoring French ace
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  Tetsuzō Iwamoto, Japanese Navy fighter ace, often credited with being the top scoring Japanese ace

Listing by country

• List of World War II aces from Australia
• List of World War II aces from Austria
• List of World War II aces from Belgium
• List of World War II aces from Bulgaria
• List of World War II aces from Canada
• List of World War II aces from China
• List of World War II aces from Croatia
• List of World War II aces from Czechoslovakia
• List of World War II aces from Denmark
• List of World War II aces from Finland
• List of World War II aces from France (Vichy France)
• List of World War II aces from Germany (Jet aces, night fighter)
• List of World War II aces from Hungary
• List of World War II aces from Italy
• List of World War II aces from Ireland
• List of World War II aces from Japan
• List of World War II aces from New Zealand
• List of World War II aces from Norway
• List of World War II aces from Poland
• List of World War II flying aces from Romania
• List of World War II aces from Slovakia
• List of World War II aces from South Africa
• List of World War II aces from Southern Rhodesia
• List of World War II aces from the Soviet Union
• List of World War II aces from Spain
• List of World War II aces from the United Kingdom
• List of World War II aces from the United States

List

  This background, along with the symbol "†", indicates that the pilot was killed in action, missing in action, died of wounds, or was killed in a flying accident during World War II.

Name	Country	Service(s)	Aerial Victories	Other Aerial Victories	Notes
Erich Hartmann	Germany	Luftwaffe	352 [2]		Top ace of all time. First ever with 300 victories, achieved coincident with Double-ace in a day
Gerhard Barkhorn	Germany	Luftwaffe	301 [2]
Günther Rall	Germany	Luftwaffe	275 [2]
Otto Kittel †	Germany	Luftwaffe	267 [2]		Top Focke-Wulf 190 ace
Walter Nowotny †	Germany	Luftwaffe	258 [2]		Double-ace in a day on two different occasions. First to 250
Wilhelm Batz	Germany	Luftwaffe	237 [2]
Erich Rudorffer	Germany	Luftwaffe	222 [2]		Jet ace with 12 victories in Me 262, [3] Double-ace in a day Credited with 11 heavy bombers shot down [4]
Heinz Bär	Germany	Luftwaffe	220 [2]		Jet ace with 16 victories in Me 262 [3] Credited with 21 heavy bombers shot down [5]
Hermann Graf	Germany	Luftwaffe	212 [2]		First ever with 200 victories
Heinrich Ehrler †	Germany	Luftwaffe	208 [2]		Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262 [3] Credited with 7 heavy bombers shot down [6]
Theodor Weissenberger	Germany	Luftwaffe	208 [2]		Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262 [3] Credited with 7 heavy bombers shot down [6]
Hans Philipp †	Germany	Luftwaffe	206 [7]
Walter Schuck	Germany	Luftwaffe	206 [7]		Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262 [3]
Anton Hafner †	Germany	Luftwaffe	204 [7]
Helmut Lipfert	Germany	Luftwaffe	203 [7]
Walter Krupinski	Germany	Luftwaffe	197 [7]
Anton Hackl	Germany	Luftwaffe	192 [7]		Credited with 34 heavy bombers shot down [5]
Joachim Brendel	Germany	Luftwaffe	189 [7]
Max Stotz †	Germany	Luftwaffe	189 [7]
Joachim Kirschner †	Germany	Luftwaffe	188 [7]
Kurt Brändle †	Germany	Luftwaffe	180 [7]
Günther Josten	Germany	Luftwaffe	178 [7]
Johannes Steinhoff	Germany	Luftwaffe	176 [7]		Jet ace with 6 victories in Me 262 [3]
Ernst-Wilhelm Reinert	Germany	Luftwaffe	174 [7]
Günther Schack	Germany	Luftwaffe	174 [7]
Heinz Schmidt †	Germany	Luftwaffe	173 [7]
Emil Lang †	Germany	Luftwaffe	173 [7]		Triple-ace in a day
Horst Ademeit †	Germany	Luftwaffe	166 [7]
Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke †	Germany	Luftwaffe	162 [8]
Hans-Joachim Marseille †	Germany	Luftwaffe	158 [8]		Top scoring ace outside the Eastern Front. Destroyed most Western Allied aircraft. Triple-ace in a day
Heinrich Sturm †	Germany	Luftwaffe	158 [9]
Gerhard Thyben	Germany	Luftwaffe	157 [8]
Hans Beisswenger †	Germany	Luftwaffe	152 [8]
Gordon Gollob	Germany	Luftwaffe	150 [8]		First ever with 150 victories
Peter Düttmann	Germany	Luftwaffe	150 [8]
Fritz Tegtmeier	Germany	Luftwaffe	146 [8]
Albin Wolf †	Germany	Luftwaffe	144 [8]
Kurt Tanzer	Germany	Luftwaffe	143 [8]
Friedrich-Karl Müller †	Germany	Luftwaffe	140 [8]		Credited with 23 heavy bombers shot down [5]
Friedrich Wachowiak †	Germany	Luftwaffe	140 [9]
Karl Gratz	Germany	Luftwaffe	138 [8]
Heinrich Setz †	Germany	Luftwaffe	138 [8]
Rudolf Trenkel	Germany	Luftwaffe	138 [8]
Franz Schall †	Germany	Luftwaffe	137 [8]		Jet ace with 14 victories in Me 262 [3]
Walter Wolfrum	Germany	Luftwaffe	137 [8]		Double-ace in a day on two different occasions
Adolf Dickfeld	Germany	Luftwaffe	136 [8]
Horst-Günther von Fassong †	Germany	Luftwaffe	136 [10]
Otto Fönnekold †	Germany	Luftwaffe	136 [10]
Karl-Heinz Weber †	Germany	Luftwaffe	136 [10]
Joachim Müncheberg †	Germany	Luftwaffe	135 [10]
Hans Waldmann †	Germany	Luftwaffe	134 [10]		Ace in a day
Alfred Grislawski	Germany	Luftwaffe	133 [10]
Johannes Wiese	Germany	Luftwaffe	133 [10]
Adolf Borchers	Germany	Luftwaffe	132 [10]
Erwin Clausen †	Germany	Luftwaffe	132 [10]		Credited with 10 heavy bombers shot down [4]
Wilhelm Lemke †	Germany	Luftwaffe	131 [10]
Heinrich Sterr †	Germany	Luftwaffe	130 [10]
Franz Eisenach	Germany	Luftwaffe	129 [10]
Walther Dahl	Germany	Luftwaffe	128 [10]		Credited with 30 heavy bombers shot down [5]
Franz Dörr	Germany	Luftwaffe	128 [10]
Rudolf Rademacher	Germany	Luftwaffe	126 [10]		Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262 [3] Credited with 11 heavy bombers shot down [4]
Josef Zwernemann †	Germany	Luftwaffe	126 [11]		Credited with 5 heavy bombers shot down [12]
Gerhard Hoffmann †	Germany	Luftwaffe	125 [11]
Dietrich Hrabak	Germany	Luftwaffe	125 [11]
Wolf-Udo Ettel †	Germany	Luftwaffe	124 [11]
Herbert Ihlefeld	Germany	Luftwaffe	123 [10]	+9 in Spanish Civil War [13]	Ace in each of two wars
Wolfgang Tonne †	Germany	Luftwaffe	122 [11]
Heinz Marquardt	Germany	Luftwaffe	121 [11]
Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer	Germany	Luftwaffe	121 [14]		Top night fighter ace. Ace in a day
Robert Weiß †	Germany	Luftwaffe	121 [11]
Friedrich Obleser	Germany	Luftwaffe	120 [11]
Erich Leie †	Germany	Luftwaffe	118 [11]
Franz-Josef Beerenbrock	Germany	Luftwaffe	117 [11]
Hans-Joachim Birkner †	Germany	Luftwaffe	117 [11]
Jakob Norz †	Germany	Luftwaffe	117 [11]
Walter Oesau †	Germany	Luftwaffe	117 [11]	+9 in Spanish Civil War [13]	Credited with 13 heavy bombers shot down [4]
Heinz Wernicke †	Germany	Luftwaffe	117 [11]
August Lambert †	Germany	Luftwaffe	116 [11]		Triple-ace in a day
Wilhelm Crinius	Germany	Luftwaffe	114 [11]
Werner Schröer	Germany	Luftwaffe	114 [15]		Credited with 26 heavy bombers shot down [5]
Hans Dammers †	Germany	Luftwaffe	113 [15]
Berthold Korts †	Germany	Luftwaffe	113 [15]
Kurt Bühligen	Germany	Luftwaffe	112 [15]		Credited with 24 heavy bombers shot down [5]
Kurt Ubben †	Germany	Luftwaffe	111 [16]
Helmut Lent †	Germany	Luftwaffe	110 [14]		Night fighter ace
Franz Woidich	Germany	Luftwaffe	110 [15]
Emil Bitsch †	Germany	Luftwaffe	108 [15]
Hans Hahn	Germany	Luftwaffe	108 [15]
Bernhard Vechtel	Germany	Luftwaffe	108 [15]
Viktor Bauer	Germany	Luftwaffe	106 [15]
Werner Lucas †	Germany	Luftwaffe	106 [15]
Günther Lützow †	Germany	Luftwaffe	105 [17]	+5 in Spanish Civil War [13]
Adolf Galland	Germany	Luftwaffe	104 [15]		Jet ace with 7 victories in Me 262 [3]
Heinz Sachsenberg	Germany	Luftwaffe	104 [15]
Hartmann Grasser	Germany	Luftwaffe	103 [15]
Siegfried Freytag	Germany	Luftwaffe	102 [18]
Friedrich Geisshardt †	Germany	Luftwaffe	102 [18]
Egon Mayer †	Germany	Luftwaffe	102 [18]		Credited with 26 heavy bombers shot down [5]
Max-Hellmuth Ostermann †	Germany	Luftwaffe	102 [18]
Josef Wurmheller †	Germany	Luftwaffe	102 [18]
Werner Mölders †	Germany	Luftwaffe	101 [11]	+14 in Spanish Civil War [13]	Ace in each of two wars, first in aviation history with 100 victories
Rudolf Miethig †	Germany	Luftwaffe	101 [18]
Josef Priller	Germany	Luftwaffe	101 [18]
Ulrich Wernitz	Germany	Luftwaffe	101 [18]
Reinhard Seiler	Germany	Luftwaffe	100 [15]	+9 in Spanish Civil War [13]
Paul-Heinrich Dähne †	Germany	Luftwaffe	100 [19]
Leopold Steinbatz †	Germany	Luftwaffe	99 [18]
Wolfgang Späte	Germany	Luftwaffe	99 [18]		Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262 [3]
Heinrich Bartels †	Germany	Luftwaffe	99 [18]
Horst Hannig †	Germany	Luftwaffe	98 [18]
Gustav Rödel	Germany	Luftwaffe	98 [18]
Helmut Rüffler	Germany	Luftwaffe	98 [18]
Hans Schleef †	Germany	Luftwaffe	98 [20]
Helmut Mertens	Germany	Luftwaffe	97 [20]
Hermann Schleinhege	Germany	Luftwaffe	97 [21]
Diethelm von Eichel-Streiber	Germany	Luftwaffe	96 [20] [21]
Heinrich Höfemeier †	Germany	Luftwaffe	96 [20] [21]
Siegfried Lemke	Germany	Luftwaffe	96 [20]		Credited with more than 5 heavy bombers shot down [12]
Leopold Münster †	Germany	Luftwaffe	95 [20] [21]
Ilmari Juutilainen	Finland	Finnish Air Force	94 [22]		Top non-German ace. Claimed 126 victories. Ace in a day. Victories were against the Soviet Union.
Rudolf Müller †	Germany	Luftwaffe	94 [20] [21]	possibly 101 [23]
Anton Döbele †	Germany	Luftwaffe	94 [20] [21]
Heinrich Klöpper †	Germany	Luftwaffe	94 [20] [21]
Rudolf Resch †	Germany	Luftwaffe	93 [20] [21]	+1 in Spanish Civil War
Edmund Roßmann	Germany	Luftwaffe	93 [20] [21]
Siegfried Schnell †	Germany	Luftwaffe	93 [20] [21]		Credited with 10 heavy bombers shot down [4]
Helmut Bennemann	Germany	Luftwaffe	93 [21]
Gerhard Loos †	Germany	Luftwaffe	92 [20]
Oskar Romm	Germany	Luftwaffe	92 [20]
Anton Resch	Germany	Luftwaffe	91 [20]
Eberhard von Boremski	Germany	Luftwaffe	90 [24]	possibly 104 [25]
Heinz Kemethmüller	Germany	Luftwaffe	89 [24] [21]
Hiroyoshi Nishizawa †	Japan	Imperial Japanese Navy	87 [26]		Top Japanese ace
Georg Schentke †	Germany	Luftwaffe	87 [24]	possibly 90 [21]
Josef Jennewein †	Germany	Luftwaffe	86 [24] [21]
Anton Mader	Germany	Luftwaffe	86 [24] [21]
Ulrich Wöhnert	Germany	Luftwaffe	86 [24]
Gerhard Köppen †	Germany	Luftwaffe	85 [24] [21]
Walter Zellot †	Germany	Luftwaffe	85 [24] [21]
Heinz Ewald	Germany	Luftwaffe	84 [24] [21]
Peter Kalden	Germany	Luftwaffe	84 [24]
Werner Quast	Germany	Luftwaffe	84 [24] [21]
Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein †	Germany	Luftwaffe	83 [14]		Night fighter ace
Otto Weßling †	Germany	Luftwaffe	83 [24] [21]
Walter Ohlrogge	Germany	Luftwaffe	83 [24]
Franz Beyer †	Germany	Luftwaffe	83 [21]
Hans Grünberg	Germany	Luftwaffe	82 [24]		Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262 [3] Credited with 10 heavy bombers shot down [4]
Emil Darjes	Germany	Luftwaffe	82 [21]
Hans Götz †	Germany	Luftwaffe	82 [24]
Helmut Missner †	Germany	Luftwaffe	82 [24]
Max-Hermann Lücke †	Germany	Luftwaffe	81 [27]
Hugo Broch	Germany	Luftwaffe	81 [27]
Willi Nemitz †	Germany	Luftwaffe	81 [27]
Wilhelm Philipp	Germany	Luftwaffe	81 [27]
Rudolf Wagner †	Germany	Luftwaffe	81 [27]
Tetsuzō Iwamoto	Japan	Imperial Japanese Navy	80	+14 in Second Sino-Japanese War	Ace in each of two wars, analysis in 1971 suggests up to 87 WWII confirmed, his diary claimed 202 victories
Herbert Bachnick †	Germany	Luftwaffe	80 [27]
Otto Würfel †	Germany	Luftwaffe	79 [27]
Georg-Peter Eder	Germany	Luftwaffe	78 [27]		Jet ace with 12 victories in Me 262 [3] Credited with 36 heavy bombers shot down [5]
Wolfgang Ewald	Germany	Luftwaffe	78 [27]
Heinrich Krafft †	Germany	Luftwaffe	78 [27]
Karl-Gottfried Nordmann	Germany	Luftwaffe	78 [27]
Alexander Preinfalk †	Germany	Luftwaffe	78 [27]
Josef Haiböck	Germany	Luftwaffe	77 [27]
Johann-Hermann Meier †	Germany	Luftwaffe	77 [27]
Hans-Joachim Kroschinski	Germany	Luftwaffe	76 [27]
Maximilian Mayerl	Germany	Luftwaffe	76 [27]
Alfred Teumer †	Germany	Luftwaffe	76 [28]
Edwin Thiel †	Germany	Luftwaffe	76 [28]
Hans Wind	Finland	Finnish Air Force	75 [22]
Johannes Bunzek †	Germany	Luftwaffe	75 [28]
Helmut Grollmus †	Germany	Luftwaffe	75 [28]
Johann Pichler	Germany	Luftwaffe	75 [28]
Hans Röhrig †	Germany	Luftwaffe	75 [28]
Joachim Wandel †	Germany	Luftwaffe	75 [28]
Gustav Frielinghaus	Germany	Luftwaffe	74 [28]
Otto Gaiser †	Germany	Luftwaffe	74 [28]
Friedrich Haas †	Germany	Luftwaffe	74 [28]
Hubertus von Bonin †	Germany	Luftwaffe	73 [27]	+4 in Spanish Civil War
Anton Lindner	Germany	Luftwaffe	73 [28]
Gerhard Michalski	Germany	Luftwaffe	73 [28]		Credited with more than 10 heavy bombers shot down [4]
Otto Schultz	Germany	Luftwaffe	73 [28]
Wilhelm Herget	Germany	Luftwaffe	72 [14]
Shigeo Fukumoto	Japan	Imperial Japanese Navy	72
Klaus Mietusch †	Germany	Luftwaffe	72 [28]		Credited with 13 heavy bombers shot down [4]
Wilhelm Mink †	Germany	Luftwaffe	72 [28] [29]
Karl-Heinz Schnell	Germany	Luftwaffe	72 [28] [29]
Hans Fuß †	Germany	Luftwaffe	71 [30] [29]
Adolf Glunz	Germany	Luftwaffe	71 [28] [29]
Alfred Heckmann	Germany	Luftwaffe	71 [30]
Herbert Rollwage	Germany	Luftwaffe	71 [31]
Günther Scheel †	Germany	Luftwaffe	71 [30]		highest kill-to-mission ratio [29]
Shoichi Sugita	Japan	Imperial Japanese Navy	70		+40 shared
Karl Hoffmann	Germany	Luftwaffe	70
Hermann-Friedrich Joppien †	Germany	Luftwaffe	70 [30]
Heinz Lange	Germany	Luftwaffe	70 [30]
Rudi Linz †	Germany	Luftwaffe	70 [30]
Emil Omert †	Germany	Luftwaffe	70 [30]
Armin Köhler	Germany	Luftwaffe	69 [30]
Ernst Weismann †	Germany	Luftwaffe	69 [30]
Eugen-Ludwig Zweigart †	Germany	Luftwaffe	69 [30]		Credited with 10 heavy bombers shot down [12]
Constantin Cantacuzino	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	69	+8 unconfirmed	Top Romanian ace
Kurt Dombacher	Germany	Luftwaffe	68 [30]
Walter Höckner †	Germany	Luftwaffe	68 [30]
Herbert Huppertz †	Germany	Luftwaffe	68 [30]
Heinrich Jung †	Germany	Luftwaffe	68 [30]
Herbert Kaiser	Germany	Luftwaffe	68 [32]
Richard Leppla	Germany	Luftwaffe	68 [32]
Fritz Losigkeit	Germany	Luftwaffe	68 [32]
Günther Freiherr von Maltzahn	Germany	Luftwaffe	68 [30]
Hans Strelow †	Germany	Luftwaffe	68 [30]
Ernst Süß †	Germany	Luftwaffe	68 [32]
Otto Tange †	Germany	Luftwaffe	68 [32]
Karl Hammerl †	Germany	Luftwaffe	68 [33]
Gustav Denk †	Germany	Luftwaffe	67 [32]
Fritz Dinger †	Germany	Luftwaffe	67 [32]
Herbert Findeisen	Germany	Luftwaffe	67 [32]		Includes 42 claims as an aerial reconnaissance pilot. [32]
Reinhold Hoffmann †	Germany	Luftwaffe	67 [34]
Erbo Graf von Kageneck †	Germany	Luftwaffe	67 [32]
Franz Schieß †	Germany	Luftwaffe	67 [32] [35]
Franz Schwaiger †	Germany	Luftwaffe	67 [32] [35]
Hubert Strassl †	Germany	Luftwaffe	67 [36] [35]		Triple-ace in a day
Erwin Fleig	Germany	Luftwaffe	66 [32] [35]
Werner Streib	Germany	Luftwaffe	66 [14] [35]		Night fighter ace
Ivan Kozhedub	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	66		Top Allied ace in WWII
Grigory Rechkalov	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	65 [37]		including 4 shared victories
Heinrich Füllgrabe †	Germany	Luftwaffe	65 [38]
Waldemar Semelka †	Germany	Luftwaffe	65 [38]
Berthold Graßmuck †	Germany	Luftwaffe	65 [38]
Karl Kempf †	Germany	Luftwaffe	65 [38]
Manfred Meurer †	Germany	Luftwaffe	65 [14]		Night fighter ace
Günther Radusch	Germany	Luftwaffe	65 [14]		Night fighter ace
Karl Fuchs †	Germany	Luftwaffe	64 [39]
Bernd Gallowitsch	Germany	Luftwaffe	64 [38]
Jürgen Harder †	Germany	Luftwaffe	64 [38]
Rolf Hermichen	Germany	Luftwaffe	64 [38]		Credited with 26 heavy bombers shot down [5]
Walter Lindner	Germany	Luftwaffe	64 [35]
Viktor Petermann	Germany	Luftwaffe	64 [38]
Heinz Rökker	Germany	Luftwaffe	64 [40]		Night fighter ace
Rudolf Schoenert	Germany	Luftwaffe	64 [40]		Night fighter ace
Franz Götz	Germany	Luftwaffe	63 [38]
Heinrich Hoffmann †	Germany	Luftwaffe	63 [38]
Gerhard Homuth †	Germany	Luftwaffe	63 [38]
Wilhelm Schilling	Germany	Luftwaffe	63 [41]
Hermann Staiger	Germany	Luftwaffe	63 [42]		Credited with 26 heavy bombers shot down [5]
Karl-Heinz "Heino" Cordes	Germany	Luftwaffe	62 [35]
Wilhelm Hübner †	Germany	Luftwaffe	62 [38]
Helmut Neumann †	Germany	Luftwaffe	62 [38]
Horst Haase	Germany	Luftwaffe	62 [43]	possibly 82 [21]
Karl-Heinz Meltzer †	Germany	Luftwaffe	61 [44]
Gerhard Beutin	Germany	Luftwaffe	60 [45] [35]
Hans-Ekkehard Bob	Germany	Luftwaffe	60 [46] [35]
Horst Carganico †	Germany	Luftwaffe	60 [47] [35]
Franz Czech	Germany	Luftwaffe	60 [35]
Nikolai Gulayev	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	60 [48]		including 5 shared victories
Franz Hrdlicka †	Germany	Luftwaffe	60 [49]	possibly 96 [21]
Kurt Kelter	Germany	Luftwaffe	60
August Mors †	Germany	Luftwaffe	60 [38]
Karl Munz	Germany	Luftwaffe	60 [50]
Alfred Rauch	Germany	Luftwaffe	60 [50]
Hans-Arnold Stahlschmidt †	Germany	Luftwaffe	59 [51]
Franz Eckerle †	Germany	Luftwaffe	59 [52]
Alfred Franke †	Germany	Luftwaffe	59 [53]
Helmut Haberda †	Germany	Luftwaffe	59 [54]
Karl Steffen	Germany	Luftwaffe	59 [51]
Paul Zorner	Germany	Luftwaffe	59 [40]		Night fighter ace
Siegfried Engfer	Germany	Luftwaffe	59 [55]
Hermann Buchner	Germany	Luftwaffe	58 [56]		Jet ace with 12 victories in Me 262 [3] Credited with 10 heavy bombers shot down [4]
Martin Becker	Germany	Luftwaffe	58 [40]		Night fighter ace
Herbert Broennle †	Germany	Luftwaffe	58 [57]
Herbert Friebel	Germany	Luftwaffe	58 [58]
Wilhelm Freuwörth	Germany	Luftwaffe	58 [59]
Gerhard Raht	Germany	Luftwaffe	58 [40]		Night fighter ace
Hiromichi Shinohara †	Japan	Imperial Japanese Army	58
Gabriel Tautscher	Germany	Luftwaffe	58 [60]
Lutz-Wilhelm Burckhardt	Germany	Luftwaffe	57+ [61]
Heinrich-Wilhelm Ahnert †	Germany	Luftwaffe	57 [62]
Konrad Bauer	Germany	Luftwaffe	57 [63]		Credited with 32 heavy bombers shot down [5]
Kurt Ebener	Germany	Luftwaffe	57 [64]
Johannes Seifert †	Germany	Luftwaffe	57 [65]
Hermann Wolf	Germany	Luftwaffe	57 [66]
Edmund Wagner †	Germany	Luftwaffe	57 [67]
Gustav Francsi	Germany	Luftwaffe	56 [40]		Night fighter ace
Heinz Hackler †	Germany	Luftwaffe	56 [68]
Erich Hohagen	Germany	Luftwaffe	56 [69]		Credited with more than 8 heavy bombers shot down [6]
Helmuth Holtz	Germany	Luftwaffe	56 [70]
Eduard Isken	Germany	Luftwaffe	56 [71]
Kurt Knappe †	Germany	Luftwaffe	56 [72]
Josef Kraft	Germany	Luftwaffe	56 [40]		Night fighter ace
Helmut Schönfelder	Germany	Luftwaffe	56 [73]
Günther Seeger	Germany	Luftwaffe	56 [74]
Heinz Strüning †	Germany	Luftwaffe	56 [40]		Night fighter ace
Helmut Wick †	Germany	Luftwaffe	56 [75]
Kirill Yevstigneyev	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	56 [76]		including 3 shared victories
Eino Luukkanen	Finland	Finnish Air Force	56 [22]
Herbert Bareuther †	Germany	Luftwaffe	55 [77]
Karl-Heinz Bendert	Germany	Luftwaffe	55 [78]
Hans Ehlers †	Germany	Luftwaffe	55 [79]		Credited with 24 heavy bombers shot down [5]
Hans-Dieter Frank	Germany	Luftwaffe	55 [40]		Night fighter ace
Wilhelm-Ferdinand Galland †	Germany	Luftwaffe	55 [80]		Credited with 8 heavy bombers shot down [6]
Herbert Puschmann †	Germany	Luftwaffe	54 [81]
Takeo Okumura †	Japan	Imperial Japanese Navy	54
Johann Badum †	Germany	Luftwaffe	54 [82]
Heinz Leber †	Germany	Luftwaffe	54 [83]
Siegfried Simsch †	Germany	Luftwaffe	54 [84]
Heinz Vinke †	Germany	Luftwaffe	54 [40]		Night fighter ace
Hannes Trautloft	Germany	Luftwaffe	53 [85]	+5 in Spanish Civil War [13]
August Geiger †	Germany	Luftwaffe	53 [40]		Night fighter ace
Albert Brunner †	Germany	Luftwaffe	53 [86]
Hans-Joachim Heyer †	Germany	Luftwaffe	53 [34]
Willy Kientsch †	Germany	Luftwaffe	53 [87]
Carl Sattig	Germany	Luftwaffe	53 [88]
Julius Meimberg	Germany	Luftwaffe	53 [89]
Herbert Lütje	Germany	Luftwaffe	53 [40]		Night fighter ace
Franz Barten †	Germany	Luftwaffe	52 [63]
Heinz-Edgar Berres †	Germany	Luftwaffe	52 [90]
Martin Drewes	Germany	Luftwaffe	52 [40]		Night fighter ace
Alfred Gross	Germany	Luftwaffe	52 [91]
Ludwig Häfner †	Germany	Luftwaffe	52 [68]
Rudolf Pflanz †	Germany	Luftwaffe	52 [92]
Friedrich Rupp †	Germany	Luftwaffe	52 [93]
Werner Hoffmann	Germany	Luftwaffe	52 [40]		Night fighter ace
Heinrich Wefers	Germany	Luftwaffe	51 [67]
Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld †	Germany	Luftwaffe	51 [40]		Night fighter ace
Fritz Lüddecke †	Germany	Luftwaffe	51 [94]
Otto Schulz †	Germany	Luftwaffe	51 [95]
Kurt Welter	Germany	Luftwaffe	50+ [96]		Jet ace with 20+ claimed in Me 262; [3] 56 as night fighter; possibly all time jet ace
Wilhelm Hauswirth	Germany	Luftwaffe	50 [33]
Hermann Greiner	Germany	Luftwaffe	50 [96]		Night fighter ace
Dmitry Glinka	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	50 [97]
Hans-Joachim Jabs	Germany	Luftwaffe	50 [96]		Night fighter ace
Emil Knittel	Germany	Luftwaffe	50
Frank Liesendahl	Germany	Luftwaffe	50
Karl Willius †	Germany	Luftwaffe	50 [98]
Rudolf Ehrenberger †	Germany	Luftwaffe	49 [79]
Reinhard Kollak	Germany	Luftwaffe	49 [96]		Night fighter ace
Klaus Quaet-Faslem †	Germany	Luftwaffe	49 [99]
Alexander Pokryshkin	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	49 [100]		including 4 shared victories
Amet-khan Sultan	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	49 [101]		including 19 shared victories
Walter Borchers †	Germany	Luftwaffe	48+ [96]	possibly 59 [25]	Night fighter ace
Heinz Arnold †	Germany	Luftwaffe	48 [62]		Jet ace with 7 victories in Me 262 [3]
Friedrich Beckh †	Germany	Luftwaffe	48 [63]
Paul Gildner †	Germany	Luftwaffe	48 [96]		Night fighter ace
Johannes Hager	Germany	Luftwaffe	48 [96]		Night fighter ace
Werner Stumpf †	Germany	Luftwaffe	48 [36]
Heinz-Gerhard Vogt †	Germany	Luftwaffe	48 [102]
Günter Fink †	Germany	Luftwaffe	48 [103]
Fritz Karch	Germany	Luftwaffe	47 [104]
Ernst-Georg Drünkler	Germany	Luftwaffe	47 [105]		Night fighter ace
Heinz Golinski †	Germany	Luftwaffe	47 [106]
Eckhard Hübner †	Germany	Luftwaffe	47 [49]
Herbert Kutscha	Germany	Luftwaffe	47 [107]
Erich Schmidt †	Germany	Luftwaffe	47 [108]
Alexandru Şerbănescu †	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	47
Alexander Koldunov	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	47 [109]		including 1 shared victory
Nikolai Skomorokhov	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	47 [110]		including 3 shared victories
Arseny Vorozheykin	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	46 [111]	+6 in Battles of Khalkhin Gol	Ace in each of two wars (though Khalkhin Gol was undeclared)
Andrey Borovykh	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	46 [112]		including 17 shared victories
Hans-Heinz Augenstein	Germany	Luftwaffe	46 [96]		Night fighter ace
Ludwig Becker †	Germany	Luftwaffe	46 [96]		Night fighter ace
Wolfgang Böwing-Treuding †	Germany	Luftwaffe	46 [113]
Erwin Laskowski	Germany	Luftwaffe	46 [114]
Karl Rammelt	Germany	Luftwaffe	46 [115]
Franz Schulte	Germany	Luftwaffe	46 [116]
Paul Semrau †	Germany	Luftwaffe	46 [96]		Night fighter ace
Karl Schnörrer	Germany	Luftwaffe	45 [73]		Jet ace with 11 victories in Me 262 [3] Credited with 9 heavy bombers shot down [6]
Georg Seidel	Germany	Luftwaffe	45 [117]
Vladimir Serov †	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	45 [118]		including 6 shared victories
Alfred Surau	Germany	Luftwaffe	45 [36]
Kurt Tangermann	Germany	Luftwaffe	45 [60]
Ernst Düllberg	Germany	Luftwaffe	45 [119]		Credited with 9 heavy bombers shot down [12]
Rudolf Frank †	Germany	Luftwaffe	45 [96]		Night fighter ace
Hugo Dahmer	Germany	Luftwaffe	45 [120]
Gerhard Schöpfel	Germany	Luftwaffe	45 [121]
Otto Vinzent	Germany	Luftwaffe	45 [122]
Ion Milu	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	45
Urho Lehtovaara	Finland	Finnish Air Force	44.5 [22]
Manfred Eberwein	Germany	Luftwaffe	44+ [52]
Mato Dukovac	Croatia	Croatian Air Force	44		Top Croatian ace
Oiva Tuominen	Finland	Finnish Air Force	44 [22]
Hans Frese	Germany	Luftwaffe	44 [123]
Karl-Wilhelm Hofmann †	Germany	Luftwaffe	44 [69]
Reinhold Knacke †	Germany	Luftwaffe	44 [96]		Night fighter ace
Wilhelm Steinmann	Germany	Luftwaffe	44 [124]
Walther Wever †	Germany	Luftwaffe	44 [125]
Karl Borris	Germany	Luftwaffe	43 [126]
Ludwig Franzisket	Germany	Luftwaffe	43 [59]
Hubert Mütherich	Germany	Luftwaffe	43 [127]
Josef Pöhs †	Germany	Luftwaffe	43 [128]
Daniel Vizanty	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	43
Vladimir Lavrinenkov	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	43 [129]		including 7 shared victories
Aleksey Ryazanov	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	43 [130]		including 12 shared victories
Fyodor Arkhipenko	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	43 [131]		including 15 shared victories
Walter Brandt	Germany	Luftwaffe	42 [86]
Olli Puhakka	Finland	Finnish Air Force	42 [22]
Norbert Hannig	Germany	Luftwaffe	42 [33]
Jürgen Brocke †	Germany	Luftwaffe	42 [57]
Tudor Greceanu	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	42
Rudolf Schmidt	Germany	Luftwaffe	42 [132]
Herbert Schramm †	Germany	Luftwaffe	42 [133]
Robert Olejnik	Germany	Luftwaffe	42 [134]
Nikolai Krasnov †	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	42 [135]		including 1 shared victory
Richard Quante †	Germany	Luftwaffe	41 [81]
Werner Baake	Germany	Luftwaffe	41 [96]		Night fighter ace
Leopold Fellerer	Germany	Luftwaffe	41 [96]		Night fighter ace
Ludwig Meister	Germany	Luftwaffe	41 [136]		Night fighter ace
Ernst Börngen	Germany	Luftwaffe	41 [46]
Sergey Morgunov	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	41 [137]
Mikhail Pivovarov	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	41 [138]		including 1 shared victory
Ivan Stepanenko	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	41 [139]		including 9 shared victories
Andrey Baklan	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	41 [140]		including 21 shared victories
Marmaduke 'Pat' Pattle †	South Africa	Royal Air Force	41 [141]		Top British Commonwealth and South African ace, possibly 50+ victories. He scored all his victories on the Gloster Gladiator and the Hawker Hurricane and is the top ace of both aircraft.
Wilhelm Balthasar †	Germany	Luftwaffe	40 [75]	+7 in Spanish Civil War	Ace in each of two wars (+13 ground kills WWII)
Richard I. Bong †	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	40 [142]		Top U.S. ace
Vitaly Popkov	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	40 [143]
Ivan Babak	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	40 [144]		including 5 shared victories
Pyotr Gnido	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	40 [145]		including 6 shared victories
Mikhail Komelkov	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	40 [146]		including 7 shared victories
Wolf-Dietrich Huy	Germany	Luftwaffe	40 [147]
Hermann Neuhoff	Germany	Luftwaffe	40 [148]
Günter Steinhausen †	Germany	Luftwaffe	40 [124]
Eckart-Wilhelm von Bonin	Germany	Luftwaffe	39 [136]		Night fighter ace
Dietrich Schmidt	Germany	Luftwaffe	39 [136]	possibly 43 [149]	Night fighter ace
Satoru Anabuki	Japan	Imperial Japanese Army	39		51 claimed
Iyozo Fujita	Japan	Imperial Japanese Navy	39
Hans Dortenmann	Germany	Luftwaffe	38 [105]
Peter Bremer	Germany	Luftwaffe	38 [86]
James Edgar "Johnnie" Johnson	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	38 [141]		Top Spitfire Ace.
Cvitan Galić †	Croatia	Croatian Air Force	38
Gerhard Koall †	Germany	Luftwaffe	38 [150]
Detlev Rohwer †	Germany	Luftwaffe	38 [151]
Eduard Tratt †	Germany	Luftwaffe	38 [152]
Thomas B. McGuire †	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	38 [142]
Günther Bahr	Germany	Luftwaffe	39 [136]		Night fighter ace
Klaus Neumann	Germany	Luftwaffe	37 [153]		Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262 [3]
Heinz Bretnütz	Germany	Luftwaffe	37 [154]
Waldemar Radener	Germany	Luftwaffe	37 [155]		Credited with 11 heavy bombers shot down [4]
Sergey Luganski	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	37
Wilhelm Beier	Germany	Luftwaffe	36 [136]		Night fighter ace
Helmut Bergmann †	Germany	Luftwaffe	36 [136]		Night fighter ace
Walter Ehle †	Germany	Luftwaffe	36 [136]		Night fighter ace
Friedrich Körner	Germany	Luftwaffe	36 [156]
Maximilian Volke †	Germany	Luftwaffe	36 [67]
Olavi Puro	Finland	Finnish Air Force	36 [22]
Nils Katajainen	Finland	Finnish Air Force	35.5 [22]
Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel	Germany	Luftwaffe	35
Heinz-Horst Hißbach †	Germany	Luftwaffe	34 [136]		Night fighter ace
Wilhelm Johnen	Germany	Luftwaffe	34 [136]		Night fighter ace
Klaus Bretschneider	Germany	Luftwaffe	34 [154]		incl. 14 as Night fighter ace
Aleksey Alelyukhin	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	34 [157]		including 6 shared victories
Vladimir Bobrov	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	34 [158]	+13 and 4 shared in Spanish Civil War	including 11 shared victories
David McCampbell	United States	U.S. Navy	34 [142]		Top U.S. Navy ace, Ace in a day on two different occasions
Toshio Ota †	Japan	Imperial Japanese Navy	34
Heinz-Martin Hadeball	Germany	Luftwaffe	33 [136]		Night fighter ace
Josef Kociok †	Germany	Luftwaffe	33 [136]		Night fighter ace
Heinz Knoke	Germany	Luftwaffe	33 [72]
Ernst-Wilhelm Modrow	Germany	Luftwaffe	33 [136]	possibly 34 [159]	Night fighter ace
Pierre Clostermann	France	Free French Air Force; Royal Air Force	33 [141]		Top French ace
Erich Brunotte	Germany	Luftwaffe	33
Günther Bleckmann †	Germany	Luftwaffe	33 [45]
Lauri Nissinen †	Finland	Finnish Air Force	32.5 [22]
Werner Husemann	Germany	Luftwaffe	32 [136]		Night fighter ace
Ján Režňák	Slovak Republic	Slovak Air Force	32		Top Slovak ace, possibly 35 victories
Kyösti Karhila	Finland	Finnish Air Force	32 [22]
Hugo Frey †	Germany	Luftwaffe	32 [59]		Credited with 25 heavy bombers shot down [5]
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 [141]		Top Canadian ace of WWII
Hans-Karl Mayer †	Germany	Luftwaffe	31 [160]	+8 in Spanish Civil War	Ace in each of two wars
Paul-Hubert Rauh	Germany	Luftwaffe	31 [136]		Night fighter ace
Karl-Heinz Scherfling †	Germany	Luftwaffe	31+ [136]		Night fighter ace
Alexandr Kumanichkin	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	31
Jorma Karhunen	Finland	Finnish Air Force	31 [22]
Dezső Szentgyörgyi	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	30.5		Top Hungarian ace
Pavel Golovachev	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	30+
Gerhard Friedrich †	Germany	Luftwaffe	30 [136]		Night fighter ace
Paul Brandt	Germany	Luftwaffe	30 [126]
Karl-Heinz Langer	Germany	Luftwaffe	30 [161]
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 [45]
Erich Bartz	Germany	Luftwaffe	30 [162]
Friedrich-Karl "Nasen" Müller	Germany	Luftwaffe	30 [163]		Night fighter ace
Kaneyoshi Mutoh †	Japan	Imperial Japanese Navy	30
Ryotaro Jobou	Japan	Imperial Japanese Army	30
Emil Vesa	Finland	Finnish Air Force	29.5 [22]
Paul Szameitat †	Germany	Luftwaffe	29 [163]		Night fighter ace
Günther Bertram	Germany	Luftwaffe	29 [45]		Night fighter ace
Heinrich Wohlers †	Germany	Luftwaffe	29 [163]		Night fighter ace
Bob Braham	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	29 [141]		Night fighter ace
Clive Caldwell	Australia	Royal Australian Air Force	28.5 [141]		Top Australian ace of WWII. Top P-40 ace. Ace in a day.
Tapio Järvi	Finland	Finnish Air Force	28.5 [22]
Izidor Kovárik	Slovak Republic	Slovak Air Force	28	possibly 29
Igor Kaberov	Soviet Union	Soviet Naval Aviation	28 [164]		including 18 shared victories
Max Bucholz	Germany	Luftwaffe	28 [61]		Ace in a day
Ernst Andres †	Germany	Luftwaffe	28
Anton Benning	Germany	Luftwaffe	28 [165] [163]		Night fighter ace
Hans-Heinrich Koenig †	Germany	Luftwaffe	28 [166]
Yasuhiko Kuroe	Japan	Imperial Japanese Army	28	+2 in Actions in Mongolia	51 claimed
"Paddy" Finucane †	Ireland	Royal Air Force	28		Top Irish ace
"Ginger" Lacey	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	28 [141]
Francis "Gabby" Gabreski	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	28	+6.5 in Korean War	Ace in each of two wars (+2.5 ground kills WWII)
Gregory "Pappy" Boyington	United States	American Volunteer Group; U.S. Marine Corps	28		Ace status on 2 different air forces. Includes six kills he claimed with the AVG, though records indicate he had only 2 aerial kills and 1.5 kills on the ground.
Saburō Sakai	Japan	Imperial Japanese Navy	28		Includes unknown number of shared. Claims 64 total victories.
Willi Reschke	Germany	Luftwaffe	28 [167]		Credited with 20 heavy bombers shot down [5]
Colin Falkland Gray	New Zealand	Royal Air Force	27.5		Top New Zealand ace
Rudolf Busch	Germany	Luftwaffe	27+ [61]
Heinz Beyer	Germany	Luftwaffe	27 [45]
Alfred Burk	Germany	Luftwaffe	27 [61]
Neville Duke	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	27
Wilhelm Mayer †	Germany	Luftwaffe	27 [168]
Lothar Linke †	Germany	Luftwaffe	27 [169]
Hans Remmer †	Germany	Luftwaffe	27 [170]		Credited with 8 heavy bombers shot down [6]
Constantin Rozariu	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	27
Robert S. Johnson	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	27
Charles H. MacDonald	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	27
Junichi Sasai †	Japan	Imperial Japanese Navy	27
Sadaaki Akamatsu	Japan	Imperial Japanese Navy	27
George E. Preddy, Jr. †	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	26.83		Ace in a day (+5 ground kills)
Eric Lock †	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	26.5
Emil Clade	Germany	Luftwaffe	26 [61]
Franz Stigler	Germany	Luftwaffe	26 [36]
Peter Werfft	Germany	Luftwaffe	26 [171]		Credited with 14 heavy bombers shot down [172]
Klaus Alakoski	Finland	Finnish Air Force	26 [22]
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
György Debrődy	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	26
Lajos Tóth	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	26
Russell Bannock	Canada	Royal Canadian Air Force	25.5		includes 19 V-1 flying bombs
Egon Albrecht-Lemke †	Germany   Brazil	Luftwaffe	25 [173]
Lance C. Wade †	United States	Royal Air Force	25 [174]		Top US ace in RAF
Ludwig Bellof	Germany	Luftwaffe	25
Wolfgang Lippert †	Germany	Luftwaffe	25 [175]	+5 in Spanish Civil War	Ace in each of two wars
Robert M. Hanson †	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	25
Boris Safonov †	Soviet Union	Soviet Naval Aviation	25		+14 shared
Naoshi Kanno	Japan	Imperial Japanese Navy	25
László Molnár †	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	25
Frank Reginald Carey	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	25
Josef Fözö	Germany	Luftwaffe	24 [176]	+3 in Spanish Civil War
John C. Meyer	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	24	+2 in Korean War	(+13 ground kills)
Walter Adolph †	Germany	Luftwaffe	24 [173]	+1 in Spanish Civil War
Willy Unger	Germany	Luftwaffe	24 [5]		Credited with 21 heavy bombers shot down [5]
Karl-Heinz Krahl †	Germany	Luftwaffe	24 [177]
Cecil E. Harris	United States	U.S. Navy	24
Johannes Le Roux	South Africa	Royal Air Force	23.5		Generally credited with attacking & wounding Erwin Rommel in his staff car in Normandy on 17 July 1944
Horst Patuschka †	Germany	Luftwaffe	23 [178]
Peter Spoden	Germany	Luftwaffe	23 [84]		Night fighter ace
Fritz Müller	Germany	Luftwaffe	23 [179]		Jet ace with 6 victories in Me 262 [3]
Erich Woitke †	Germany	Luftwaffe	23 [180]	+4 in Spanish Civil War
Fred Ohr	United States	U.S. Army Air Corps	23		Top Korean-American ace, +17 Ground kills
Marcel Albert	France	Free French Air Force; Royal Air Force	23		Probably 2 more
Douglas Bader	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	23 [141]		All 23 kills scored after losing both legs in a 1931 aircraft crash
Eugene A. Valencia	United States	U.S. Navy	23 [142]
Kalevi Tervo	Finland	Finnish Air Force	23 [22]
Jorma Saarinen	Finland	Finnish Air Force	23 [22]
Eero Kinnunen	Finland	Finnish Air Force	22.5 [22]
David C. Schilling	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	22.5 [142]		(+10.5 ground kills)
Rolf Pingel	Germany	Luftwaffe	22 [128]	+6 Spanish Civil War	Ace in each of two wars
Teresio Vittorio Martinoli †	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	22		Top Italian ace of WWII; +14 shared
Leonardo Ferrulli †	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	22
Artur Beese †	Germany	Luftwaffe	22 [181]
Edward F. Charles	Canada	Royal Air Force	15.5
Alan Christopher Deere	New Zealand	Royal Air Force	22 [141]
Gerald R. Johnson	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	22 [142]
Neel E. Kearby †	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	22
Jay T. Robbins	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	22
Ion Mucenica	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	22
Dominic S. Gentile	United States	Royal Air Force; U.S. Army Air Forces	21.83		victories with 2 air forces (+7 ground kills)
Rolf Kaldrack †	Germany	Luftwaffe	21+ [182]	+3 in Spanish Civil War
Donald Kingaby	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	21		+2 shared
Antti Tani	Finland	Finnish Air Force	21.5 [22]
William V. Crawford-Crompton	New Zealand	Royal Air Force	21.5
Raymond Brown Hesselyn	New Zealand	Royal New Zealand Air Force	21.5
Fred J. Christensen	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	21.5
Ray S. Wetmore	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	21¼		(+2 ground kills)
Branse Burbridge	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	21 [141]		Top RAF night fighter ace
Archie McKellar †	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	21 [183]		Ace in a day
Jean Demozay	France	Royal Air Force	21 [141]
Franco Lucchini †	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	21	+6 in Spanish Civil War	Ace in each of two wars (+52 shared WWII)
Franz von Werra †	Germany	Luftwaffe	21 [184]
John J. Voll	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	21 [142]
Kenneth A. Walsh	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	21 [185]
Paavo Myllylä	Finland	Finnish Air Force	21 [22]
Walker 'Bud' Melville Mahurin	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	20.75	+3.5 in Korean War
Helmut Baudach	Germany	Luftwaffe	20+ [162]		Jet ace with 5 victories in Me 262 [3]
Donald N. Aldrich	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	20 [185]
Rudolf Artner	Germany	Luftwaffe	20 [62]
Hans Berschwinger	Germany	Luftwaffe	20
Helmut-Felix Bolz	Germany	Luftwaffe	20	+3 in Spanish Civil War
Ernst Richter	Germany	Luftwaffe	20		12 claimed at the Eastern front and 8 at the Western front
Cristea Chirvasuta	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	20
Michael Crossley	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	20
Thomas J. Lynch †	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	20
Evan Mackie	New Zealand	Royal New Zealand Air Force	20		+3 shared
Henry Wallace McLeod †	Canada	Royal Canadian Air Force	20
Gerhard Sommer †	Germany	Luftwaffe	20 [186]
Robert B. Westbrook †	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	20
Vernon Crompton Woodward	Canada	Royal Air Force	20
Viktor Pyötsiä	Finland	Finnish Air Force	19.5 [22]
Väinö Suhonen	Finland	Finnish Air Force	19.5 [22]
Winfried Schmidt	Germany	Luftwaffe	19 [108]
Geoffrey Allard	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	19		+5 shared
Paul Becker	Germany	Luftwaffe	19 [181]
Erhard Peters †	Germany	Luftwaffe	19 [92]		Night fighter ace
Adolf Kalkum	Germany	Luftwaffe	19 [182]
Franco Bordoni	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	19		5 victories with biplane; +18 shared
Mark Henry Brown †	Canada	Royal Air Force	19		First Canadian ace of WWII
Roy Dutton	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	19
W. G. G. Duncan Smith	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	19		DSO*, DFC**
Luigi Gorrini	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	19		1 victory with biplane, 24 victories claimed
John "Cat's Eyes" Cunningham	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	19		Night fighter ace
Glenn E. Duncan	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	19		(+7.8 ground kills)
James Francis Edwards	Canada	Royal Canadian Air Force	19
Patrick D. Fleming	United States	U.S. Navy	19
Cornelius N. Nooy	United States	U.S. Navy	19
John Lucian Smith	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	19
Alexander Vraciu	United States	U.S. Navy	19		Ace in a Day - 6 victories in one sortie 6/19/1944, averaged 10 rounds/gun/victory in that mission
Erik Teromaa	Finland	Finnish Air Force	19 [22]
Constantin Lungulescu	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	19
Stanisław Skalski	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	18.91		Top Polish ace, first Allied ace of the WW2
Arthur J. Benko	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	18.5		highest scoring American aerial gunner of the WW2
Marion E. Carl	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	18.5
Lauri Pekuri	Finland	Finnish Air Force	18.5 [22]
Leonard K. Carson	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	18.5		(+3.5 ground kills)
Glenn Eagleston	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	18.5	+2 in Korean War	(+5 ground kills)
Wilbur J. Thomas	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	18.5
Lev Shestakov †	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	18 [187]	+2 and 1 shared in Spanish Civil War	+9 shared
Yukiyoshi Wakamatsu	Japan	Imperial Japanese Army	18+
Motomitsu Aoki †	Japan	Imperial Japanese Army	18		Korean pilot during the Japanese occupation era. Up to 23 claimed. KIA during the Korean War as Brig. Gen. Geun-Seok Lee of the ROK Air Force
Tateo Katō	Japan	Imperial Japanese Army	18		up to 30 claimed
Karel Kuttelwascher	Czechoslovakia	Royal Air Force	18		possibly 20
Harry von Bülow-Bothkamp	Germany	Luftwaffe	18	+6 in World War I	Ace in each of two wars
Witold Urbanowicz	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	18
Walter C. Beckham	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	18
Herschel H. Green	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	18
John C. "Pappy" Herbst	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	18
Albert Gerald Lewis	South Africa	Royal Air Force	18		Ace in a day
Miklós Kenyeres	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	18
Charles H. Older	United States	American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces	18		Ace status on 2 different air forces
Takeo Tanimizu	Japan	Imperial Japanese Navy	18
Pierre Le Gloan †	France	French Air Force; Free French Air Force	18		Ace in a day
Hubert Zemke	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	17.75
John B. England	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	17.5
Duane W. Beeson	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	17⅓		(+4.8 ground kills)
Jouko Huotari	Finland	Finnish Air Force	17.5 [22]
John F. Thornell	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	17¼		(+2 ground kills)
Henry William Brown	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	17.2		(+14.5 ground kills)
Theodor Rossiwall	Germany	Luftwaffe	17 [151]	+2 Spanish Civil War
Michael Arooth	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	17		B-17 Flying Fortress tail gunner
Rudolf Božík	Slovak Republic	Slovak Air Force	17
Ugo Drago	Italy   Italian Social Republic	Regia Aeronautica; Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana	17
Edgar Kain †	New Zealand	Royal Air Force	17		First RAF fighter ace of WWII
William "Willie" McKnight	Canada	Royal Air Force	17
Josef Frantisek	Czechoslovakia	Royal Air Force	17
Jorma Sarvanto	Finland	Finnish Air Force	17 [22]		Ace in a day (four minutes)
Yrjö Turkka	Finland	Finnish Air Force	17 [22]
Gerald W. Johnson	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	17
James S. Varnell Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	17
Bolesław Gładych	Poland	Polish Air Force; French Air Force; Royal Air Force; U.S. Army Air Forces	17		victories with 3 air forces
Keith Truscott	Australia	Royal Australian Air Force	17
Petrus Hugo	South Africa	Royal Air Force	17
Stanley Orr	United Kingdom	Fleet Air Arm	17
Paul Galland †	Germany	Luftwaffe	17 [39]
Tony Lovell	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	16		+6 shared (+1 ground kill)
Eugeniusz Horbaczewski	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	16.5
William T. Klersy †	Canada	Royal Canadian Air Force	16.5		(+2 ground kills)
Aulis Lumme	Finland	Finnish Air Force	16.5 [22]
James MacLachlan	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	16.5		7.5 after the amputation of his left arm
Eero Riihikallio	Finland	Finnish Air Force	16.5 [22]
Nigel Cullen	Australia	Royal Air Force	16.5
John T. Godfrey	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	16⅓		(+18 ground kills)
Adrian Goldsmith	Australia	Royal Australian Air Force	16¼
Clarence E. Anderson	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	16¼		Highest scoring living American air ace. (+1 ground kill)
Les Clisby	Australia	Royal Air Force	16
Franjo Dzal	Croatia	Croatian Air Force	16
Douglas Baker †	United States	U.S. Navy	16
Eero Halonen	Finland	Finnish Air Force	16 [22]
Bill Harris	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	16
Buck McNair	Canada	Royal Canadian Air Force	16
John Plagis	Rhodesia	Royal Air Force	16		Top Rhodesian ace
Ioan Dicezare	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	16
Ira C. Kepford	United States	U.S. Navy	16
Charles R. Stimpson	United States	U.S. Navy	16
Stan Turner	Canada	Royal Canadian Air Force	16
William T. Whisner, Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	16	+5.5 in Korean War	Ace in each of two wars (+3.5 ground kills WWII)
George Welch	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	16
Edmond Marin la Meslée †	France	French Air Force	16
Mario Visintini	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	16	+1 in Spanish Civil War	Top Biplane ace of WWII (+32 ground kills)
Vasile Gavriliu	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	16
Ernest Mason	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	15+		+2 shared
John Lloyd Waddy	Australia	Royal Australian Air Force	15.5
Donald M. Beerbower	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	15.5
Brian Carbury	New Zealand	Royal Air Force	15.5		Ace in a day
Richard A. Peterson	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	15.5		(+3.5 ground kills)
James E. Swett	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	15.5		Ace in a day
David Lee "Tex" Hill	United States	American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces	15¼		Ace status on 2 different air forces
Semyon Bychkov	Soviet Union   Germany	Soviet Air Force Luftwaffe	15 [188]		including 5 shared victories. Taken as prisoner and served in Luftwaffe
Martti Alho	Finland	Finnish Air Force	15 [22]
Ljudevit Bencetic	Croatia	Croatian Air Force	15
Jack T. Bradley	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	15
Samuel J. Brown	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	15
Edward "Porky" Cragg	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	15
František Cyprich	Slovak Republic	Slovak Air Force	15		possibly 18
Kenneth H. Dahlberg	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	15
Robert Francis Thomas "Bob" Doe	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	15		Includes two shared. One more probable.
William D. Dunham	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	15
Robert W. Foy	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	15
John "Jack" Frost †	South Africa	South African Air Force	15
Raymond Harries	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	15		+3 shared
Ralph K. Hofer	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	15		(+14 ground kills)
Cyril F. Homer	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	15
Paterson Hughes	Australia	Royal Air Force	15
Don C. Laubman	Canada	Royal Canadian Air Force	15
Ian Roy MacLennan	Canada	Royal Canadian Air Force	15
Harold L. Spears †	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	15
Stoyan Stoyanov	Bulgaria	Royal Bulgarian Air Force	15
Alois Vašátko †	Czechoslovakia	Royal Air Force	15
Donald H. Bochkay	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	14.84
Donald J. Blakeslee	United States	Royal Air Force; U.S. Army Air Forces	14.5		victories with 2 air forces
John D. Landers	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	14.5		(+20 ground kills)
Aaro Nuorala	Finland	Finnish Air Force	14.5 [22]
Joseph H. Powers, Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	14.5
Johnnie Checketts	New Zealand	Royal New Zealand Air Force	14.5
Henry Brown	United States	U.S. Army Air Force	14.5		(+14.5 ground kills)
Charles Scherf	Australia	Royal Australian Air Force	14.5		(+9 ground kills)
David Fairbanks	Canada	Royal Canadian Air Force	14		Top Hawker Tempest ace with 13 of his 14 victories scored on it.
Mario Bellagambi	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	14
Svein Heglund	Norway	Royal Air Force	14
Sophus Baagoe †	Germany	Luftwaffe	14 [189]
William Klersy †	Canada	Royal Canadian Air Force	14		(+1 shared)
Günther Wegmann	Germany	Luftwaffe	14 [67]		Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262 [3]
František Brezina	Slovak Republic	Slovak Air Force	14
Bruce W. Carr	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	14		(+10 ground kills)
Robert C. Curtis	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	14
Robert M. DeHaven	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	14
Archie Donahue	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	14
Wallace N. Emmer	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	14
James A. Goodson	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	14		(+13 ground kills)
Arthur R. Hawkins	United States	U.S. Navy	14
Arthur F. Jeffrey	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	14
Edward O. McComas	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	14
Elbert S. McCuskey	United States	U.S. Navy	14
Daniel T. Roberts, Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	14
Gray Stenborg †	New Zealand	Royal New Zealand Air Force	14 [190]
John L. Wirth	United States	U.S. Navy	14
István Fábián	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	14
István Kálmán	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	14
George Carpenter	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	13.833		(+4 ground kills)
William Henry Franklin	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	13.5
George Chamberlain Duncan	United States	U.S. Navy	13.5
Pekka Kokko	Finland	Finnish Air Force	13.5 [22]
Heimo Lampi	Finland	Finnish Air Force	13.5 [22]
Roger W. Mehle	United States	U.S. Navy	13.5
Donald J. Strait	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	13.5
Donald S. Bryan	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	13.3		Ace in a day
Darrell S. Cramer	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	13
Ivo von Lubich-Edler Milowa*	Germany	Luftwaffe	13 [169]
John Wong Pan-Yang	United States	Chinese Nationalist Air Force	13
James L. Brooks	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	13
Jan Zumbach	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	13
Safet Boskic	Croatia	Croatian Air Force	13
Mervyn Shipard	Australia	Royal Australian Air Force	13
Daniel A. Carmichael, Jr.	United States	U.S. Navy	13
James N. Cupp	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	13
Clyde B. East	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	13
Robert E. Galer	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	13
John F. Hampshire	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	13
Bruce K. Holloway	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	13
William P. Marontate	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	13
Willard. W. Millikan	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	13		(+2 ground kills)
Glennon T. Moran	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	13		(+3 ground kills)
Robert Neale	United States	American Volunteer Group	13		(+2.5 ground kills)
László Pottyondi	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	13
László Máthé	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	13
Robin Olds	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	13	+4 in Vietnam War	(+11 ground kills)
James O'Meara	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	13
Yrjö Pallasvuo	Finland	Finnish Air Force	13 [22]
Harry A. Parker	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	13
Roy W. Rushing	United States	U.S. Navy	13
Edward O. Shaw †	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	13
AJ "Jackie" Sewell	United Kingdom	Fleet Air Arm	13
Robert W. Stephens	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	13
John R. Strane	United States	U.S. Navy	13
Robert Lee Scott, Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	13
Wendell V. Twelves	United States	U.S. Navy	13
Tony Bartley	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	13
Ian Richard Gleed	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	13
Felix D. Williamson	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	13
Tiberiu Vinca	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	13
Ioan Maga	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	13
Henryk Pietrzak	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	12.5
Lasse Aaltonen	Finland	Finnish Air Force	12.5 [22]
Ted Thorn	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	12.5
Frederick James Barker	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	12.5		rear gunner of Ted Thorn
Andrew "Nicky" Barr	Australia	Royal Australian Air Force	12.5
Tony Gaze	Australia	Royal Air Force	12.5
Lowell K. Brueland	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	12.5	+2 in Korean War
Kenneth D. Frazier	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	12.5
David Charles "Foob" Fairbanks	United States	Royal Canadian Air Force	12.5
Irving Farmer Kennedy	Canada	Royal Canadian Air Force	12.5
Eino Koskinen	Finland	Finnish Air Force	12.5 [22]
Onni Paronen	Finland	Finnish Air Force	12.5 [22]
Urho Sarjamo †	Finland	Finnish Air Force	12.5 [22]
Per-Erik Sovelius	Finland	Finnish Air Force	12.5 [22]
James C. Stewart	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	12.5		(+1 ground kill)
James H. Howard	United States	American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces	12⅓		victories with 2 air forces (6⅓ with AVG and 6 with USAF)
Quince L. Brown	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	12⅓		(+2 ground kills)
Lydia Litvyak †	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	12	range 6-12	highest ranking female ace
Luigi Baron	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	12
Mato Culinovic	Croatia	Croatian Air Force	12
John A. Kent	Canada	Royal Air Force	12		(+1 ground kill)
Eduard Martinko	Croatia	Croatian Air Force	12
Veca Mikovic	Croatia	Croatian Air Force	12
Zlatko Stipcic	Croatia	Croatian Air Force	12
Marian Pisarek	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	12
John Dundas	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	12
John Freeborn	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	12
Robert Barton	Canada	Royal Air Force	12 [191]	(+5 shared victories and 2 probables)
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 [22]
Michael Brezas	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	12
Levi R. Chase	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	12
Clement M. Craig	United States	U.S. Navy	12
Nicholas Gresham Cooke †	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	12		Ace in a day
David B. Eastham	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	12
Loren D. Everton	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	12
Luigi Giannella	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	12
George W. Gleason	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	12		(+2.5 ground kills)
Leroy E. Harris	United States	U.S. Navy	12
Coatsworth B. Head, Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	12
Roger R. Hedrick	United States	U.S. Navy	12
Howard D. Hively	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	12		(+2.5 ground kills)
Georg Kraft †	Germany	Luftwaffe	12		Night fighter ace
Kenneth G. Ladd	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	12
Albert Lippett †	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	12		Ace in a day, turret gunner on a two-man fighter plane
William J. Masoner, Jr.	United States	U.S. Navy	12
Pierce McKennon	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	12		(+9.7 ground kills)
Robert W. Moore	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	12
József Málik †	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	12
Ferenc Málnássy †	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	12
František Peřina	Czechoslovakia	Royal Air Force	12
Michael J. Quirk	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	12		(+5 ground kills)
Jack Rae	New Zealand	Royal New Zealand Air Force	12 [192]
Attilio Sanson	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	12
LeRoy A. Schreiber	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	12		(+2 ground kills)
Harold E. Segal	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	12
James A. Shirley	United States	U.S. Navy	12
Norman C. Skogstad	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	12
William J. Sloan	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	12
Giorgio Solaroli di Briona	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	12
Eugene A. Trowbridge	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	12
Richard E. Turner	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	12		possibly just 11 (+2 V-1 flying bombs)
James A. Watkins	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	12
Edward Wells	New Zealand	Royal New Zealand Air Force	12 [193]		(+4 probables)
Richard L. West	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	12
Nicholas Megura	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	11.84		(+3.8 ground kills)
George R. Carr	United States	U.S. Navy	11.5
James A. Clark, Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	11.5		(+4.5 ground kills)
Paul A. Conger	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	11.5
Olin E. Gilbert	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	11.5
William T. Halton	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	11.5		(+2 ground kills)
John A. Kirla, Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	11.5		(+.5 ground kill)
William N. Snider	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	11.5
Albert O. Vorse Jr.	United States	U.S. Navy	11.5
Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	11.5		Ace in a day
Basilios Michael Vassilios "Vass" Vassiliades	Greece	Royal Air Force	11.5
Liu Chi-Sheng / Liu Zhesheng	China	Chinese Nationalist Air Force	11.3		Top Chinese ace
Howard Mayers	Australia	Royal Air Force	11.3
Louis H. Norley	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	11.3		(+5 ground kills)
Philip C. DeLong	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	11.2	+2 in Korean War
Richard John Cork	United Kingdom	Fleet Air Arm	11		Ace in a day
George Jameson	New Zealand	Royal New Zealand Air Force	11 [194]		Highest scoring New Zealand night fighter pilot of WWII [194]
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	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 [22]
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
Aleksey Maresyev	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	11 [195]		3 victories after losing his legs
Charles M. McCorkle	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	11
Norman L. McDonald	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	11
Hamilton McWhorter III	United States	U.S. Navy	12
John W. Mitchell	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	11	+4 in Korean War
Urho Nieminen	Finland	Finnish Air Force	11 [22]
Harvey P. Picken	United States	U.S. Navy	11
James V. Reber, Jr.	United States	U.S. Navy	11
Elmer W. Richardson	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	11		possibly just 8
Robert H. Riddle	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	11
James F. Rigg	United States	U.S. Navy	11
Donald E. Runyon	United States	U.S. Navy	11
Donald H. Sapp	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	11
Warren Schrader	New Zealand	Royal New Zealand Air Force	11 [190]
Murray Shubin	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	11
Otto Smik †	Czechoslovakia	Royal Air Force	11		(+3 V-1 flying bombs)
Cornelius Smith, Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	11
Kenneth C. Sparks	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	11
Richard E. Stanbrook	United States	U.S. Navy	11
Virgil K. Meroney	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	10
Ilkka Törrönen	Finland	Finnish Air Force	11 [22]
Mario Veronesi	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	11
Ioan Malacescu	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	11
Teodor Zabava	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	11
George T. Burgard	United States	American Volunteer Group	10.75
Frank Q. O'Conner	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	10.75
Charles F. Anderson, Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	10.5		(+5.5 ground kills)
Andrew Bosman	South Africa	South African Air Force	10.5
Richard Joseph Audet †	Canada	Royal Canadian Air Force	10.5		Ace in a day
Marshall U. Beebe	United States	U.S. Navy	10.5
George F. Ceulleers	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	10.5
Jack E. Conger	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	10.5
George A. Doersch	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	10.5		(+.5 ground kill)
Niilo Erkinheimo	Finland	Finnish Air Force	10.5 [22]
William J. Hovde	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	10.5	+1 in Korean War	(+2 ground kills)
Martti Kalima	Finland	Finnish Air Force	10.5 [22]
Kullervo Lahtela	Finland	Finnish Air Force	10.5 [22]
Raymond H. Littge	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	10.5		(+13 ground kills)
Kai Metsola	Finland	Finnish Air Force	10.5 [22]
John V. Newkirk	United States	American Volunteer Group	10.5
Eino Peltola	Finland	Finnish Air Force	10.5 [22]
Edward Rector	United States	American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces	10.5		victories with 2 air forces
Russell E. Reiserer	United States	U.S. Navy	10.5
John A. Storch	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	10.5		(+1.5 ground kills)
John C. Symmes	United States	U.S. Navy	10.5
Robert E. Murray	United States	U.S. Navy	10.4
Ralph E. Elliot	United States	U.S. Navy	10.3
Fred W. Glover	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	10.3		(+12.5 ground kills)
Bobby Gibbes	Australia	Royal Australian Air Force	10¼
William D. McGarry	United States	American Volunteer Group	10¼
Stanley W. Vejtasa	United States	U.S. Navy	10¼		Ace in a day
Georgy Zakharov	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	10	+6 and 4 shared in Spanish Civil War +3 in Second Sino-Japanese War	Ace in two wars
Hugo Armstrong †	Australia	Royal Australian Air Force	10	(+1 shared victory and 3 probables)
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
John Cock	Australia	Royal Air Force	10	(+1 shared)
Garrett P. Hopkins	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	10		(+6 probables)
John Mitchner	Canada	Royal Canadian Air Force	10.5
Nigel Park †	New Zealand	Royal New Zealand Air Force	10 [196]
Colin Parkinson	Australia	Royal Australian Air Force	10
Frank B. Baldwin	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	10
Minden Blake	New Zealand	Royal Air Force	10 [197]
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 [198]
Alwin M. Juchheim, Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	10		(+6 ground kills)
Veikko Karu	Finland	Finnish Air Force	10 [22]
Robert Kipp	Canada	Royal Canadian Air Force	10 [199]
Mauno Kirjonen	Finland	Finnish Air Force	10 [22]
Ahti Laitinen	Finland	Finnish Air Force	10 [22]
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
Miloslav J. Mansfeld	Czechoslovakia	Royal Air Force	10		(+2 V-1 flying bombs)
Joseph L. Mansker	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	10
Harris E. Mitchell	United States	U.S. Navy	10
Mikko Pasila	Finland	Finnish Air Force	10 [22]
Steve Pisanos	Greece	Royal Air Force; U.S. Army Air Forces	10
Robert J. Rankin	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	10
Thomas H. Reidy	United States	U.S. Navy	10
Andrew J. Reynolds	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	10
Robert L. Scott, Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	10
Arthur Singer, Jr.	United States	U.S. Navy	10
John M. Smith	United States	U.S. Navy	10
Claudio Solaro	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	10	+1 in Spanish Civil War
Paul M. Stanch	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	10
Robert Spurdle	New Zealand	Royal New Zealand Air Force	10
Josef Stehlík	Czechoslovakia	Royal Air Force	10
Elliot Summer	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	10
James S. Swope	United States	U.S. Navy	10
Ennio Tarantola	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	10	+1 in Spanish Civil War
Hamilton Upton	Canada	Royal Air Force	10	(+1 shared)
Adriano Visconti	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	10
Robert V. Westermark	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	10
Ion Dobran	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	10
Nicolae Polizu-Micsunesti	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	10
Dumitru Ilie	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	10
Fletcher E. Adams	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9.5
Frederick Alan Aikman	Canada	Royal Canadian Air Force	9.5
Ernest E. Bankey, Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9.5		(+8 ground kills)
William M. Banks	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9.5
Leonard J. Check	United States	U.S. Navy	9.5
Edward Coate	Australia	Royal Australian Air Force	9.5
Ernest C. Fiebelkorn	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9.5		possibly just 9 (+2 ground kills)
Aleksander Gabszewicz	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	9.5
Michał Maciejowski	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	9.5
Dale F. Spencer	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9.5		(+.5 ground kill)
Robert C. Coats	United States	U.S. Navy	9⅓
Mirosław Ferić	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	9⅓
Henryk Szczęsny	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	9⅓
Charles R. Bond	United States	American Volunteer Group	9¼
Hans-Ulrich Rudel	Germany	Luftwaffe	9+ [200]		Also a top ground attack pilot, with 2000+ targets destroyed
Stephen W. Andrew	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9		(+6.5 ground kills)
Emanuele Annoni	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	9
Lee "Buddy" Archer	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9		(+6 ground kills) Only African-American ace in WWII
Roderick Bowes	Australia	Royal Australian Air Force	9
Edgar R. Bassett †	United States	U.S. Navy	9
Norman R. Berree	United States	U.S. Navy	9
William R. Bland	United States	U.S. Navy	9
George E. Bostwick	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9		(+6 ground kills)
Mark K. Bright	United States	U.S. Navy	9
Paul D. Buie	United States	U.S. Navy	9
Lajos Buday †	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	9
Henry A. Carey, Jr.	United States	U.S. Navy	9
Frederick F. Champlin	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9
Aleksander Chudek	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	9
Wilfred Clouston	New Zealand	Royal Air Force	9 [201]
Frank J. Collins	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9		possibly just 8
William M. Collins, Jr.	United States	U.S. Navy	9
Richard L. Cormier	United States	U.S. Navy	9
Louis Edward Curdes	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9
Perry A. Dahl	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9
Jefferson J. DeBlanc	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	9		Ace in a day
Richard W. Dunkin	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9
Charles H. Dyson	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	9		Ace in a day (six minutes)
Richard T. Eastmond	United States	U.S. Navy	9
Robert A. Elder	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9		(+2 ground kills)
Eugene H. Emmons	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9
Jan Falkowski	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	9
Grover E. Fanning	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9
Edward L. Feightner	United States	U.S. Navy	9
Sylvan Feld	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9
Joseph M. Forester	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9
Marvin J. Franger	United States	U.S. Navy	9
Doris C. Freeman	United States	U.S. Navy	9
Kenneth W. Gallup	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9		(+2 ground kills)
Antoni Głowacki	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	9		Ace in a day
Thomas S. Harris	United States	U.S. Navy	9
Frederick R. Haviland, Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9		(+6 ground kills)
Allen E. Hill	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9
Frank D. Hurlburt	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9
Ernest Joyce †	New Zealand	Royal New Zealand Air Force	9		(+ 2 probably destroyed)
James Timothy Kearney	Australia	Royal Australian Air Force	9
George C. Kiser	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9
Joseph J. Lesicka	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9
Christopher L. Magee	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	9
John MacKenzie	New Zealand	Royal Air Force	9 [202]		(+3 probably destroyed)
Louis A. Menard, Jr.	United States	U.S. Navy	9
Virgil K. Merony	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9
William Millington †	Australia	Royal Air Force	9
Stanley B. Morrill	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9
Walter Omiccioli	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	9
Edmund F. Overend	United States	American Volunteer Group; U.S. Marine Corps	9		victories with 2 air forces
Lloyd J. Overfield	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9
Joel B. Paris III	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9
Gartrell Parker	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	9 [203]
Paul Rabone †	New Zealand	Royal Air Force	9
Eugene D. Redmond	United States	U.S. Navy	9
William Norman Reed	United States	American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces	9		victories with 2 air forces
Daniel R. Rehm, Jr.	United States	U.S. Navy	9
Eugene P. Roberts	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9
Meryl M. Smith	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9
Robert T. Smith	United States	American Volunteer Group	9
Natalino Stabile	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	9	+ 1 in Spanish Civil War
James S. Stewart	United States	U.S. Navy	9
John S. Stewart	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9
Franklin C. Thomas, Jr.	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	9
Arthur Van Haren, Jr.	United States	U.S. Navy	9
Adrian Warburton †	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	9		ace while flying aircraft configured for reconnaissance missions
Benjamin F. Warmer	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9
Robert H. White	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9
Isamu Kashiide	Japan	Imperial Japanese Army	9		claims 26 B-29s and 7 Soviet fighters
Judge E. Wolfe	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	9
Gheorghe Popescu Ciocanel	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	9
Stefan Greceanu	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	9
Gheorghe Cocebas	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	9
Andrei Radulescu	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	9
Charles E. Watts	United States	U.S. Navy	8.75
John L. Banks	United States	U.S. Navy	8.5
William E. Bryan, Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8.5
Stanisław Brzeski	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	8.5
James B. Cain	United States	U.S. Navy	8.5
Charles J. Cesky	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8.5
Oscar I. Chenoweth	United States	U.S. Navy	8.5
Arthur Chin	United States	Chinese Nationalist Air Force	8.5		First American ace of WWII, flew biplane fighter
Frank A. Cutler	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8.5		(+3 ground kills)
Carl C. Foster	United States	U.S. Navy	8.5
John F. Gray	United States	U.S. Navy	8.5
Everett G. Hargreaves	United States	U.S. Navy	8.5
Thomas L. Hayes, Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8.5
Zdzisław Henneberg †	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	8.5
John H. Hoefker	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8.5
Otto D. Jenkins	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8.5		(+2 ground kills)
Arthur G. Johnson	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8.5
George Noel Keith †	Canada	Royal Canadian Air Force	8.5
Wacław Król	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	8.5
Frank L. Lawlor	United States	American Volunteer Group	8.5
Gregory K. Loesch	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	8.5
Carl J. Luksic	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8.5		(+7 ground kills)
Donald McDowell	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8.5
Bernard J. McGrattan	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8.5
Sanford K. Moats	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8.5
John L. Morgan, Jr.	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	8.5
George W. Pigman	United States	U.S. Navy	8.5
Claude W. Plant	United States	U.S. Navy	8.5
Albert L. Schlegel	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8.5
Dallas Schmidt	Canada	Royal Canadian Air Force	8.5
Larry R. Self	United States	U.S. Navy	8.5
Eugeniusz Szaposznikow	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	8⅓
John Fraser Drummond	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	8⅓
Franklin T. Gabriel	United States	U.S. Navy	8¼
George Bray McMillan	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8¼		(+1 ground kills)
Adolf Pietrasiak	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	8.1
Witold Łokuciewski	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	8
Helmut Lennartz	Germany	Luftwaffe	8+ [204]		Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262 [3]
Erich Büttner	Germany	Luftwaffe	8 [3]		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	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
John Curchin †	Australia	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
Leonard Haines †	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	8		(+ 4 shared)
Peter Hall	New Zealand	Royal New Zealand Air Force	8
Aladár Heppes	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	8
Frederick A. Harris	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8
Kenneth F. Hart	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8
Edwin J. Herman (or Hernan), Jr.	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	8
George L. Hollowell	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	8
Angus Horne	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	8
Jack M. Ilfrey	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8
Mervyn Ingram †	New Zealand	Royal New Zealand Air Force	8
Michael J. Jackson	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8		(+5.5 ground kills)
Byron M. Johnson	United States	U.S. Navy	8
John M. Johnson	United States	U.S. Navy	8
John L. Jones	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8
Claiborne H. Kinnard	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8		(+17 ground kills)
Pál Kovács †	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	8
Charles M. Kunz	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	8
Wolfgang Kuthe †	Germany	Luftwaffe	8 [205]		Night fighter ace
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
Wallace McIntosh	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	8		Avro Lancaster tail gunner
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	8
John G. O'Neill	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8
Edward M. Owen	United States	U.S. Navy	8
Nathan T. Post	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	8
Luther D. Prater, Jr.	United States	U.S. Navy	8
Edward F. Roddy	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8
Robert R. Rowland	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8
Philip Sangermano (FO)	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8
Charles W. Sawyer	United States	American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces	8		victories with 2 air forces
Glenn D. Schiltz Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8
David A. Scott	United States	U.S. Navy	8		possibly 9
Dale E. Shafer	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8
Robert M. Shaw	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8
William A. Shomo	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8		Ace in a day, awarded the Medal of Honor for this action
Irving Smith	New Zealand	Royal New Zealand Air Force	8		Transferred to the Royal Air Force after WWII
Robert H. Smith	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8
Gordon Arthur Stanley	United States	U.S. Navy	8
Arland Stanton	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8
John L. Sublett	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8
Leopold Šrom	Czechoslovakia	Royal Air Force	8
James B. Tapp	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8
Philip Edward Tovrea Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8
James O. Tyler	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	8
John Urwin-Mann	Canada	Royal Air Force	8	(+2 shared victories)
Victor Verity	New Zealand	Royal Air Force	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 [3]		Jet ace with all victories in Me 262
Norman. F Williams	Australia	Royal Australian Air Force	8		Bomber rear gunner
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)
John Latta †	Canada	Royal Air Force	7.5
Józef Jeka	Poland	Polish Air Forces; Royal Air Force	7.5
Henryk Pietrzak	Poland	Polish Air Forces; Royal Air Force	7.5
Howard M. Burriss	United States	U.S. Navy	7.5
Kenneth J. Dahms	United States	U.S. Navy	7.5
John H. Lowell	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	7.5		Acting commanding officer of 364th Fighter Group
Vermont Garrison	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	7.3	+10 in Korean War	Ace in each of two wars
Noel le Chevalier Agazarian †	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	7
Calvin D. Allen	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	7		52nd FG, 5th Fighter Squadron, ETO
Alfred Ambs	Germany	Luftwaffe	7 [3]		Jet ace with all victories in Me 262
Georg Christl	Germany	Luftwaffe	7 [47]
Otto Stammberger	Germany	Luftwaffe	7 [206]
William Y. Anderson	United States   Sweden	U.S. Army Air Forces	7		(+1 V-1 flying bomb)
Karl-Heinz Becker	Germany	Luftwaffe	7 [3]		Jet ace with all victories in Me 262
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
Claude J. Crenshaw	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	7		(+ 3 on the Ground) Crewshaw shot down 4 Fw 190 in one day with three working MG
Liu Chui-Kang / Liu Cuigang	China	Chinese Nationalist Air Force	7
George Andrew Davis Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	7	+21 in Korean War	Ace in each of two wars, awarded (posthumously) Medal of Honor for action in Korea
Gus A. Daymond	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	7		4th FG, 334th Fighter Squadron, ETO
Furio Niclot Doglio	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	7
Bolesław Drobiński	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	7
Helmut Eberspächer	Germany	Luftwaffe	7 [52]
Hugh C. Godefroy	Netherlands   Canada	Royal Air Force; Royal Canadian Air Force	7
Gordon M. Graham	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	7		(+9.5 ground kills)
Roger Haberman	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	7
Erwin Hentschel †	Germany	Luftwaffe	7		rear gunner of Hans-Ulrich Rudel (October 1941–March 1944)
Pál Irányi	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	7
Václav Jícha †	Czechoslovakia	Royal Air Force	7
Stanisław Karubin	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	7
Konstantin Kokkinaki	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Forces	7	+7 in Second Sino-Japanese War	Ace in each of two wars
Franz Köster	Germany	Luftwaffe	7 [3]		Jet ace with all victories in Me 262
Otmar Kučera	Czechoslovakia	Royal Air Force	7
Walter Lawson †	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	7
Warren R. Lewis	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	7	5 Probable	P-38J New Guinea
Béla Lipcsey	Hungary	Luftwaffe	7
Bert W. Marshall, Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	7		(+4 ground kills)
Iosif Moraru	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	7
Liviu Muresan	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	7
Giuseppe Oblach	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	7
Edward "Butch" O'Hare †	United States	U.S. Navy	7
Sammy A. Pierce	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	7
Stanislav Plzák †	Czechoslovakia	Royal Air Force	7
Constantin Pomut	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	7
Arval J. Roberson	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	7		(+1 ground kill)
Ferruccio Serafini	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	7
Ernest Shipman	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	7
Parsifal Stefanescu	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	7
Kálmán Szeverényi †	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	7
Richard Trousdale	New Zealand	Royal Air Force	7
György Ujszászy	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	7
Arthur Umbers †	New Zealand	Royal Air Force	7		(+28 v1 flying bombs and 10 ground kills)
Tomáš Vybíral	Czechoslovakia	Royal Air Force	7
Samual Wicker	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	7		364th Fighter Squadron, ETO
Sydney S. Woods	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	7
Robert E. Woody	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	7		(+2 ground kills)
Karol Pniak	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	6.75
Basil Gerald "Stapme" Stapleton	South Africa	Royal Air Force	6.66
Richard Edward Fowler	United States	U.S. Navy	6.5
Howard Peter Blatchford †	Canada	Royal Canadian Air Force	6.5
Lloyd Chadburn †	Canada	Royal Canadian Air Force	6.5
James Douglas Lindsay	Canada	Royal Canadian Air Force	6.5		+2 in Korean War
Willard Eder	United States	U.S. Navy	6.5
Russell Foskett	Australia	Royal Australian Air Force	6.5
Wacław Łapkowski	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	6.33
Alan Peart	New Zealand	Royal New Zealand Air Force	6.33
Horia Agarici	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	6
Florin Alexiu	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	6
Andreas Antoniou	Greece	Royal Hellenic Air Force	6
GianLino Baschirotto	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	6	+5 in Spanish Civil War	Ace in each of two wars
Livio Bassi	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	6
Wolfrath Bauer †	Germany	Luftwaffe	6		Night fighter ace
Henry S. Bille	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	6		(+4 ground kills)
Scrappy Blumer	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	6		Ace in a day (fifteen minutes)
Yekaterina Budanova	Soviet Union	Soviet Air Force	6		possibly 11, +5 shared
Harry C. Crim	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	6		(+5.25 damage) 531st Fighter Squadron, PTO
James B. Dalglish	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	6		(+3 V-1 flying bombs)
František Doležal	Czechoslovakia	Royal Air Force	6
Bryan Draper †	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve	6
Urban L. Drew	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	6
Josef Dygrýn-Ligotický †	Czechoslovakia	Royal Air Force	6
Stanislav Fejfar †	Czechoslovakia	Royal Air Force	6
Guido Fibbia	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	6	+3 in Spanish Civil War
Carlos Faustinos	Mexico	Mexican Air Force	6		Also known as Charlie Foster.
Ervin Flóznik †	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	6
James W. Griffis	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	6
Clayton Kelly Gross	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	6		355th FS, 354th FG, ETO
Fred R. Haviland, Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	6		(+6 ground kills)
Michael Herrick †	New Zealand	Royal Air Force	6
Horace B. Moranville	United States	U.S. Navy	6
James P. Hagerstrom	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	6
Stefan Janus	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	6
Oskar Köstler †	Germany	Luftwaffe	6 [156]
Fritz Kruse †	Germany	Luftwaffe	6 [205]		Night fighter ace
Kenneth Lake	United States	U.S. Navy	6
Mihály Karátsonyi	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	6
Lajos Kracsenics	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	6
Raymond Lallemant	Belgium	Royal Air Force	6
Joseph Larichelière †	Canada	Royal Air Force	6
Mátyás Lőrincz †	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	6
János Mátyás	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	6
Robert Mcwherter	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	6		First Three kill with 17th PS in the PTO, other three with 363rd FS in ETO
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 [207]	+32 in World War I	Ace in each of two wars
Edward Cobb Outlaw	United States	U.S. Navy	6		Ace in a day
Imre Pánczél †	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	6
Ludwik Witold Paszkiewicz	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	6
Eduard M. Prchal	Czechoslovakia	Royal Air Force	6
John F. Pugh	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	6		357th FG, 362nd Fighter Squadron, ETO
Leonard R. Reeves	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	6		DFC, 530th Fighter Squadron, CBI
Radu Reinek	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	6
Thomas J. Rennemo	United States	U.S. Navy	6
W. R. Scheible	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	6		(+3 ground kills)
Pál Szikora	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	6
Owen Tracey †	New Zealand	Royal Air Force	6
Gheorghe Tutuianu	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	6
Constantin Ursachi	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	6
Bram van der Stok	Netherlands	Royal Netherlands Air Force; Royal Air Force	6
Remy Van Lierde	Belgium	Royal Air Force	6		(+44 V-1 flying bombs)
Ioan Vornica	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	6
Ralph Wandrey	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	6		49th FG, 9th Fighter Squadron, PTO
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
Yoshio Yoshida	Japan	Imperial Japanese Army	6	(+1 probable)
Norman J. Fortier	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5.83		(+5.5 ground kills)
Dean S. Laird	United States	U.S. Navy	5.75
Walter J. Koraleski	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5.54
Stanley Browne	New Zealand	Royal New Zealand Air Force	5.5
Gordon B. Compton	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5.5		(+15 ground kills)
Jim Sheddan	New Zealand	Royal New Zealand Air Force	5.5
Robert P. Winks	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5.5
William Cundy	Australia	Royal Australian Air Force	5.5
Charles W. Lenfest	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5.5		(+2 ground kills)
Leslie D. Minchew	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5.5		(+ 1/2 ground kills)
Laurence Stark	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	5.5
Kazimierz Rutkowski	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	5.5
Stefan Witorzeńć	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	5.5
Czesław Główczyński	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	5.5
Michał Cwynar	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	5.5
Mieczysław Mümler	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	5.5
Bolesław Własnowolski	Poland	Polish Air Force; Royal Air Force	5.5
James E. Duffy, Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5.2		(+9 ground kills)
Panagiotis Argyropoulos	Greece	Royal Hellenic Air Force	5
Otto Böhner	Germany	Luftwaffe	5
František Chábera	Czechoslovakia	Royal Air Force	5
Joseph Heim	Germany	Luftwaffe	5 [3]		Jet ace with all victories in Me 262
William Hodgson †	New Zealand	Royal Air Force	5 [208]
John Houlton	New Zealand	Royal New Zealand Air Force	5 [209]		(+2 shared destroyed)
Alfred Schreiber	Germany	Luftwaffe	5 [3]		Jet ace – first ever confirmed – with all victories in Me 262
Ulrich Steinhilper	Germany	Luftwaffe	5 [51]
Tony Jonsson	Iceland	Royal Air Force	5
Jean Offenberg	Belgium	Belgian Air Force; Royal Air Force	5 [210]		(+2 shared destroyed)
Kenneth Tait †	New Zealand	Royal Air Force	5 [211]		plus a half share in one aircraft destroyed (with Ian Gleed)
Pentti Tilli	Finland	Finnish Air Force	5 [22]
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	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
John W. Agnew	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
William H. Allen	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	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Lester L. Arasmith	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
William E. Aron	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Richard W. Asbury	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Abner M. Aust	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Eugene D. Axtell	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Donald A. Baccus	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Jack A. Bade	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Oscar C. Bailey	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Raphael F. Baird	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Donald L. Balch	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	5
Raymond W. Bank	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Bruce M. Barackman	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Rex T. Barber	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Robert M. Barkey	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Truman S. Barnes	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Albert Baumler	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5	+6 in Spanish Civil War	Ace in each of two wars
Aaron L. Bearden	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Edward H. Beavers Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
József Bejczi †	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	5
Louis Benne	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Jack S. Berkheimer	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Richard L. Bertelson	United States	U.S. Navy	5
James D. Billo	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Lewis S. Bishop	United States	American Volunteer Group	5
Walter D. Bishop	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Foster J. Blair	United States	U.S. Navy	5
William K. Blair	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Richard B. Blaydes	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Ladislav Bobek	Czechoslovakia	Royal Air Force	5
Victor E. Bocquin	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
John W. Bolyard	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Robert R. Bonebrake	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Robert R. Bonner Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Guy P. Bordelon	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Clarence A. Borley	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Ernest O. Bostrom	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Wilbur L. Bowen	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Fred E. Bowker	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
John L. Bradley	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Vintilă Brătianu	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	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 Bungey	Australia	Royal Air Force	5
Nicolae Burileanu	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	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
Laurențiu Catană	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	5
Henry K. Champion	United States	U.S. Navy	5
George T. Chandler	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Van E. Chandler	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5	+3 in Korean War
Joseph J. Cielinski	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Arthur B. Cleaveland	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Donald C. Clements	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Robert E. Clements	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Dallas A. Clinger	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Vivian A. Cloud	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Paul R. Cochran	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
William F. Collins	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Basil Collyns †	New Zealand	Royal New Zealand Air Force	5 [212]
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
Petre Cordescu	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	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
Gheorghe Cristea	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	5
William S. Crombie	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
John O. Cross	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Omer W. Culbertson	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
William J. Cullerton	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5		(+15 ground kills, plus 9 damaged)
Arthur C. Cundy	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Warren D. Curton	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Evžen Čížek †	Czechoslovakia	Royal Air Force	5
Roald Dahl	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	5
William A. Daniel	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Clarence E. Davies	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Leonard K. Davis	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	5
George E. Dawkins Jr.	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	5
William C. Day Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Richard S. Deakins	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
George Della	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Reuben H. Denoff	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Frederick E. Dick	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Michael Dikovitsky	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Antonio Dini †	New Zealand	Royal Air Force	5 [213]
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	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Richard E. Duffy	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Mircea Dumitrescu	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	5
Hariton Dusescu	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	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	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	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. "Buck" 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	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
James Hayter	New Zealand	Royal Air Force	5 [214]		(+1 probable)
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	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Howard R. Hudson	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Alvaro J. Hunter	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
András Huszár	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	5
Reginald Jack Hyde	New Zealand	Royal Air Force	5 [215]		(+1 probable)
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
Leslie Douglas Jackson	Australia	Royal Australian Air Force	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	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	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
Teruhiko Kobayashi	Japan	Imperial Japanese Army	5
Edward H. Kopsel	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
William J. Kostic	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Bedřich Krátkoruký †	Czechoslovakia	Royal Air Force	5
Jiří V. Kučera	Czechoslovakia	Royal Air Force	5
Wayne W. Laird	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	5
William E. Lamoreaux	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Richard C. Lampe	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Willis Laney	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Ned W. Langdon	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Thomas G. Lanphier	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Franklin C. Lathrope	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Charles H. Laughlin	United States	American Volunteer Group	5
George Laven	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Earl R. Lazear	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Harold K. Lee	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Richard J. Lee	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Marlow J. Leikness	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Charles W. Lenfest	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Jack Lenox Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
John A. Leppla	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Alfred B. Lewelling	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Brooks J. Liles	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5	+4 in Korean War
Hugh D. Lillie	United States	U.S. Navy	5
James W. Little	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5	+1 in Korean War
John Lolos	Greece	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Charles P. London	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Donald Lopez	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
George G. Loving, Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
John F. Luma	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Lowell C. Lutton	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
John A. Mackay	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Morton D. Magoffin	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Keith Mahon	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Jackson C. Mankin	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Lee P. Mankin	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Harry A. March Jr.	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Luigi Mariotti	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	5
Lester C. Marsh	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Albert E. Martin Jr.	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Kenneth R. Martin	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Joseph L. Mason	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
William H. Mathis	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Joseph Z. Matte	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Chester K. Maxwell	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Benjamin I. Mayo	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Paul G. McArthur	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Henry A. McCartney Jr.	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	5
Leo B. McCudden	United States	U.S. Navy	5
William F. McDownough	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
James N. McElroy	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5		(+6 ground kills)
John L. McGinn	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Selva E. McGinty	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	5
Samuel E. McGuffin	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
John W. McGuyrt	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Donald J. McKinley	United States	U.S. Navy	5
George. McMillan	United States	American Volunteer Group	5
Evan D. MacMinn	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Donald M. McPherson	United States	U.S. Navy	5
George L. Merritt Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5		(+6 ground kills)
Frederick H. Michaelis	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Everett Miller	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Joseph E. Miller	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Robert C. Milliken	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Charles Milton	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Marinos Mitralexis	Greece	Royal Hellenic Air Force	5
Arthur P. Mollenhauer	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Franklin H. Monk	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Robert H. Moore	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Paul V. Morriss	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Arthur H. Munson	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Jennings S. Myers	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Raymond B. Myers	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5		(+4 ground kills)
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
Constantin Nicoară	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	5
Edward M. Nollmeyer	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Harold North †	New Zealand	Royal Air Force	5 [216]
Marvin R. Novak	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Jack G. Oberhansky	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Frank O'Brien Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Edwin L. Olander	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	5
Austin L. Olsen	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Paul E. Olson	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Enzo Omiccioli	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	5
Eugene W. O'Neill Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Lawrence F. O'Neill	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5		347th FG, 342nd Fighter Squadron, PTO
Ernest K. Osher	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Robert J. Overcash	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Edward W. Overton Jr.	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Joel A. Owens	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Melvyn R. Paisley	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Tibor Papp	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	5
Forrest F. Parham	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Edsel Paulk	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Oscar F. Perdomo	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5		Ace in a day
John Petach	United States	American Volunteer Group	5
Costantino Petrosellini	Italy	Regia Aeronautica	5
David P. Philips III	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Edward A. Phillips	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Hyde Phillips	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	5
Kenneth R. Pool	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Edward S. Popek	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Constantin Popescu	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	5
Robert B. Porter	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	5
George H. Poske	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	5
Ernest A. Powell	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	5
MacArthur Powers	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Jack C. Price	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Royce W. Priest	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Walter Prues †	Germany	Luftwaffe	5 [81]		Night fighter ace
Roger C. Pryor	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Josef Příhoda †	Czechoslovakia	Royal Air Force	5
Rajmund Půda	Czechoslovakia	Royal Air Force	5
Donald L. Quigley	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Robert J. Raines	United States	American Volunteer Group; U.S. Army Air Forces	5		victories with 2 air forces
Orvin H. Ramlo	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	5
William C. Reese	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Joseph E. Reulet	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Thomas W. Rhodes	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Vincent A. Rieger	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Andrew Ritchey	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Newell O. Roberts	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Leroy W. Robinson	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Ross F. Robinson	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Franklin Rose	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
János Róza	Hungary	Royal Hungarian Air Force	5
Gerald L. Rounds	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Henry S. Rudolph	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Michael T. Russo	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5		Only A-36 ace in history
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
Desmond J. Scott	New Zealand	Royal Air Force; Royal New Zealand Air Force	5		(+4 probables)
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
Erich Selei	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	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	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
Kenneth Stewart	New Zealand	Royal New Zealand Air Force	5 [217]
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	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Keith Taylor-Cannon †	New Zealand	Royal New Zealand Air Force	5
Robert D. Thompson	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Aurel Tifrea	Romania	Royal Romanian Air Force	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	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
David C. Wilhelm	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Paul H. Wilkins	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
William F. Wilson	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Russell D. Williams	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Robert A. Winston	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Ralph L. Wire	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Lee V. Wiseman	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
John L. Wolford	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
George L. Wrenn	United States	U.S. Navy	5
Max J. Wright	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Vasseure F. Wynn	United States	Royal Air Force; U.S. Army Air Forces	5		victories with 2 air forces
Robert R. Yaeger Jr.	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Robert M. York	United States	U.S. Army Air Forces	5
Michael R. Yunck	United States	U.S. Marine Corps	5
Milisav Semiz		Yugoslav air [218]	4		famous IK-3 pilot

Notes

1. By 1945, combat experienced Japanese airmen were often detailed to provide fighter escort for newer inexperienced Kamikaze pilots en route to their targets in the Pacific

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