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Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 10 [6] [page needed] Robert L. Chidlaw-Roberts United Kingdom: Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 10 [6] [page needed] Cecil Clark United Kingdom: Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 10 [6] [page needed] Adrian Cole Australia: Australian Flying Corps, Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force, Royal Australian Air ...
The following are lists of World War I flying aces. Historically, a flying ace was defined as a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The term was first used by French newspapers, describing Adolphe Pégoud as l'as (the ace), after he downed seven German aircraft.
Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force: 19 [14] British Distinguished Flying Cross [15] Leslie Powell United Kingdom: Royal Flying Corps: 19 Military Cross with Bar. Arthur Reed (aviator) † South Africa: Royal Flying Corps: 19 [16] Distinguished Flying Cross with Bar. Ellis Vair Reid Canada: Royal Naval Air Service: 19 [17] Distinguished Service ...
Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force: 72 [7] [b] Top Canadian and British Empire ace VC, CB, DSO*, MC, DFC. Ernst Udet German Empire: Luftstreitkräfte: 62 [5] PLM, HOH, IC Mick Mannock † United Kingdom: Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force: 61 [9] Top British ace VC DSO & Two Bars MC & Bar. Raymond Collishaw Canada: Royal Naval Air Service ...
Victoria Cross WW I: WWI Airmen and Their Aircraft (1997). Flying Machines Press (ISBN 1891268007). 96 pgs. Richthofen, Manfred Von, Franks, Norman. The Red Air Fighter (1999). Stackpole Books (ISBN 1853673625). 192 pgs. Rickenbacker, Eddie V. Fighting the Flying Circus: The Greatest True Air Adventure to Come Out of World War I (2001).
Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 7 [5] William Price: United Kingdom Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 7 [5] Johann Pütz German Empire Luftstreitkräfte: 7 [6] Stanley Puffer Canada Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force 7 [5] Josef Raesch: German Empire Luftstreitkräfte: 7 [6] Lewis Ray Canada Royal Flying Corps ...
The commander of U-35, Arnauld de la Perière sank a total of 194 merchant vessels and gunboats totaling 453,716 gross metric tons. [55] [56] Günther Prien: Nazi Germany: World War II: 1933–1941 "Der Stier von Scapa Flow" (The Bull of Scapa Flow), was the commander, of the U-boat, U-47. Prien was credited with sinking over 30 Allied ships ...
German author Hans Herbert Grimm wrote a novel Schlump in 1928 which was published anonymously due to its satirical and anti-war tone, loosely based on the author's own experiences as a military policeman in German-occupied France during WW1. The novel was banned by the Nazis in 1933 and Grimm was not credited as the author until 2013.