List of World War I aces credited with 6 victories explained

Aces

This list is complete. Notable aces are linked to their biographies.

Name Country Air service(s) Victories
Ivan Agabeg United KingdomRoyal Air Force6[1]
Percival Appleby CanadaRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Karl ArnoldLuftstreitkräfte6[2]
John AspinallUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Hilbert Bair United StatesRoyal Air Force, United States Army Air Service6[3]
Robert BarbourUnited KingdomRoyal Air Force6[4]
John BarlowUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps6
Johann BaurGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
James BeaneUnited StatesAéronautique Militaire, United States Army Air Service6[5]
Frank BellUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Eric BettsUnited KingdomRoyal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force6
Clayton BissellUnited StatesUnited States Army Air Service, United States Army Air Corps, United States Army Air Forces, United States Air Force6
Charles Arthur BissonetteUnited StatesRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Aldo Bocchese ItalyCorpo Aeronautico Militare6
Paul BonaGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Nicholson BoultonUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Percy BoultonUnited KingdomRoyal Air Force6
Clifford BowmanUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Moritz-Waldemar Bretschneider-BodemerGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Arthur BrittonUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Eric BrookesUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Arthur Raymond BrooksUnited StatesUnited States Army Air Service6
Albin BühlGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Harry von Buelow-BothkampGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte, Luftwaffe6
Leslie William BurbidgeUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
August BurkardGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
James BushUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps6
Alessandro BuzioItalyCorpo Aeronautico Militare6
William CairnesUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
William CambrayUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Douglas CampbellUnited StatesUnited States Army Air Service6
John CandyUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Douglas CarberyUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Charles CattoUnited StatesRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Albert ChabrierFranceAéronautique Militaire6
Robert ChalmersRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Thomas ChilternUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Antonio ChiriItalyCorpo Aeronautico Militare6
Henry Gordon ClappisonCanadaRoyal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force6
Edward ClarkeUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Harris George ClementsUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
John Henry ColbertUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Reginald ConderUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Gerald Kempster CooperUnited KingdomRoyal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force6
Maurice CooperUnited KingdomRoyal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force6
Norman Cooper alias Ernest S. TookerUnited StatesRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Irving CoreyCanadaRoyal Air Force6
Bartolomeo CostantiniItalyCorpo Aeronautico Militare6
Louis CoudouretFranceAéronautique Militaire6
Jules CovinFranceAéronautique Militaire6
Earl Frederick CrabbCanadaRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force, United States Army Air Corps6
Thomas Culling New ZealandRoyal Flying Corps6
William CurpheyUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps6
Edward Peck CurtisUnited StatesUnited States Army Air Service, United States Army Air Force6
John DaleyUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Charles Dance (aviator)Charles DanceUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Edward DarbyUnited KingdomRoyal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force6
Horace Balfour DaveyUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Charles DavidsonUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Horace DebenhamUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
François de BoigneFranceAéronautique Militaire6
Joseph De BonnefoyFranceAéronautique Militaire6
Karl DeilmanGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Lionel de MarmierFranceAéronautique Militaire6
Alexander De SeverskyImperial Army Air Service6
Andreas DombrowskiLuftfahrtruppen6
John Elmer DrummondCanadaRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Adolphe DuBois d'AischeAéronautique Militaire6
André DubonnetFranceAéronautique Militaire6
Pierre Dufaur de GavardieFranceAéronautique Militaire6
Denis Edwin EdgleyUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Karl EngelfriedGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Cyril Askew EyreUnited KingdomRoyal Naval Air Service6
Robert FarquharUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
William Spurrett Fielding-JohnsonUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
John Pierce FindlayUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Alfred FleischerGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Guglielmo FornagiariItalyCorpo Aeronautico Militare6
Herbert FowlerCanadaRoyal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force6
Gustav FrädrichGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Johann FrintAustria-HungaryLuftfahrtruppen6
Daniel GalbraithCanadaRoyal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force6
George GardinerUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Mieczyslaw GarsztkaGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Paul GastinFranceAéronautique Militaire6
Rupert GiffordUnited KingdomRoyal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force6
Friedrich GilleGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Hermann GillyGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Maurice GondFranceAéronautique Militaire6
George H. D. Gossip AustraliaRoyal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force6
Herbert GouldUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
James GreenUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps6
Duncan Grinnell-MilneUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Murray GuthrieUnited StatesUnited States Army Air Service6
Heinrich HaaseGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Erich HahnGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Alfred HainesUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
David S. HallUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps6
Stanley HamblinUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Leslie HamiltonUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Leonard HammondUnited StatesUnited States Army Air Service6
Frank HaysUnited StatesUnited States Army Air Service6
Geoffrey HemmingUnited KingdomRoyal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force6
Marcel HenriotFranceAéronautique Militaire6
Albert HetsGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Richard Alexander HewatUnited StatesRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Cyril HeywoodUnited KingdomRoyal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force6
Robert HildebrandtGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Walter G. R. HinchliffeUnited KingdomRoyal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force6
Otto HöhneGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte, Luftwaffe6
Philip HolliganUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Donald HudsonUnited StatesUnited States Army Air Service6
Frank HudsonUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Alfred HübnerGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Victor HustonUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Hans ImelmannGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Attilio ImolesiItalyCorpo Aeronautico Militare6
David IngallsUnited StatesUnited States Navy attached to Royal Air Force6
Bruce JackmanUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
H. S. JacksonUnited KingdomRoyal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force6
Johannes JensenGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Philip Andrew JohnstonAustraliaRoyal Naval Air Service6
Erich JustGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Willy KahleGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Max KahlowGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Alexander KaszaAustro-Hungarian EmpireLuftfahrtruppen6
James Alfred KeatingUnited StatesUnited States Army Air Service attached to Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Noel KeebleUnited KingdomRoyal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force6
Ernest Tilton Sumpter KellyCanadaRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Otto KlaiberGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Gustav KlaudatGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Howard KnottsUnited StatesUnited States Army Air Service6
Erich KönigGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Kurt KüppersGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Herman KunzGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
George LawsonUnion of South AfricaRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force, South African Air Force6
Alfred LenzGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
André Robert LévyFranceAéronautique Militaire6
Thomas LewisUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
H. LindfieldUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Robert Opie LindsayUnited StatesUnited States Army Air Service, United States Army Air Corps6
George LinghamAustraliaRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Alwyne Travers LoydUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps6
Ludwig LuerGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Thomas LukeUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
John Knox MacArthurUnited StatesUnited States Army Air Service6
Andrew MacGregorUnion of South AfricaRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Cesare MagistriniItalyCorpo Aeronautico Militare6
Garnet MalleyAustraliaAustralian Flying Corps6
Friedrich MallincrodtGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Maxmillian Mare-MontembaultUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Louis MartinFranceAéronautique Militaire6
T. W. MartinUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps6
Heinrich MaushakeGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
F. H. MaynardNew ZealandRoyal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force6
Malcolm McCallUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Robert McKenzieAustraliaAustralian Flying Corps6
Robert McLaughlinUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Oscar McMakingUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps6
Leslie McRobertUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Earl Stanley MeekCanadaRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
William MeggittUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Emil MeineckeGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Frank Tremar Sibly MenendezUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Konrad MettlichGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
William James MiddletonUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Archibald MillerUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps6
William MillerUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Norman Craig MillmanCanadaRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Laurence MinotUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps6
Alfred MohrGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Hugh Fitzgerald MooreUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Guido NardiniItalyCorpo Aeronautico Militare6
Gerald Ewart NashCanadaRoyal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force6
Gustave NaudinFranceAéronautique Militaire6
Werner NiethammerGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Karl NikitschAustro-Hungarian EmpireLuftfahrtruppen6
Hans OberlanderGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Jan OlieslagersKingdom of BelgiumAviation Militaire Belge6[6]
Luigi OliviItalyCorpo Aeronautico Militare6
Rudolf OttoGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Ernest Edward Owen United KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Augustus PagetUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Medley ParleeCanadaRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Laurence PearsonUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Adolphe PégoudFranceAéronautique Militaire6
Giorgio Pessi alias Guiliano ParvisItalyCorpo Aeronautico Militare6
Franz PeterAustro-Hungarian EmpireLuftfahrtruppen6
David McKelvey PetersonUnited StatesAéronautique Militaire, United States Army Air Service6
Geoffrey PidcockUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Cleo PineauUnited StatesRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
William PonderUnited StatesAéronautique Militaire, United States Army Air Service6
Sydney PopeUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Frederick PowellUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Josef PürerAustro-Hungarian EmpireLuftfahrtruppen6
Thomas G. RaeUnion of South AfricaRoyal Air Force6
Arthur RahnGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Richard Raymond-BarkerUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Émile RégnierFranceAéronautique Militaire6
Alan Rice-OxleyUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Rudolf RienauGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Harry RigbyAustraliaRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Johann RiszticsAustro-Hungarian EmpireLuftfahrtruppen6
Cosimo RizzottoItalyCorpo Aeronautico Militare6
Bogart RogersUnited StatesRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Achille RousseauxFranceAéronautique Militaire6
Cyril H. SawyerUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Alfons ScheicherGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Roman SchmidtAustro-Hungarian EmpireLuftfahrtruppen6
Karl SchmückleGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Edgar ScholtzGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Erich SchuetzeGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Wilhelm SchulzGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Gunther SchusterGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Laurence Henry ScottUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Heinrich SeywaldGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Evander ShapardUnited StatesRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Thomas SharpeUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Edward A. SimpsonUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
David Esplin SmithUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
John Smith-GrantUnion of South AfricaRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Cyril Richard SmytheUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Erich SonneckGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Constant SoulierFranceAéronautique Militaire6
Otto SplitgerberGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Arthur SpurlingUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Georg StaudacherGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Mario StoppaniItalyCorpo Aeronautico Militare6
William H. StovallUnited StatesUnited States Army Air Service, United States Army Air Corps6
William StrugnellUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Rothesay Stuart WortleyUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Kurt StudentGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Hermann StutzGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
William SwayzeCanadaRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Ronald SykesUnited KingdomRoyal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force6
Harry SymonsCanadaRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Cecil ThompsonUnion of South AfricaRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Claud Robert James ThompsonAustraliaRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force, Australian Flying Corps6
Romolo TicconiItalyCorpo Aeronautico Militare6
Edgar TobinUnited StatesUnited States Army Air Service6
Albert TonkinAustraliaAustralian Flying Corps6
James Hamilton TraillAustraliaAustralian Flying Corps6
George TrappCanadaRoyal Naval Air Service6
Reinhard TreptowGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Philip TudhopeUnion of South AfricaRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Thomas TuffieldUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
William TyrellUnited KingdomRoyal Air Force6
Konstantin VakulovskyRussian EmpireImperial Army Air Service6
Hermann VallendorGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Jerry VasconcellsUnited StatesUnited States Army Air Service6
Remington VernamUnited StatesAéronautique Militaire, United States Army Air Service6
Hans WaldhausenGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Eric WalkerUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Bernard Albert WalkerdineUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Stephen Reginald Parke WalterUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps6
Harry WatsonCanadaRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Rudolf WeberAustro-Hungarian EmpireLuftfahrtruppen6
Joseph F. WehnerUnited StatesUnited States Army Air Service6
William WeirAustraliaAustralian Flying Corps6
Heinrich WesselsGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Siegfried WestphalGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
William WestwoodUnion of South AfricaRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
William A. WheelerUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Victor WhiteUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Ernst WiehleGerman EmpireLuftstreitkräfte6
Frederick WiltonUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
William Otto Braasch WinklerUnited KingdomRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6
Harry WoodCanadaRoyal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force6

Notes and References

  1. Franks, Guest and Alegi (1997)
  2. Franks, Bailey and Guest (1993).
  3. Shores, Franks, Guest, (1990)
  4. Franks, Guest and Alegi (1997)
  5. Franks, Bailey (1992)
  6. Pieters (1998). pp. 72-73.