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hernan · 01-03-2002, 07:50 PM

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Originally posted by DavidMich
Here's a breakdown of Aces by country

USAAF/USN/USMC

Maj Richard Bong-top scoring USAAF ace in Pacific theater, 40 kills

Maj Greg "Pappy" Boyington- top scoring USMC ace in Pacific theater, 28 kills, all japanese

Francis "Gabby" Gabreski- top scoring USAAF ace in European theater, 28 kills, and 6 kills and one shared in the Korean war

David McCampell- top scoring USN ace in Pacific, 34 kills, KIA

Edward "Butch" O'Hare- First USN ace, Became an Ace in one day 12 kills,KIA. Chicago's O'Hare Int'l Airport named after him.

Lt Robin Olds- 12 kills, 20 years later, Col Olds added 4 more as commander of the 8th TFW in Vietnam. 16 kills total.

RAF/RN

Douglas Bader- Both legs amputated before the war, 20 kills, 4 shared, 18 probables. Shot down and taken POW 1941

James Edgar "Johnnie" Johnson-top scoring British ace with 34 kills and 7 shared

Bob Stamford Tuck- 27 kills, and many probables

LUFTWAFFE

Erich Hartmann- top scoring Luftwaffe ace with 352 kills. Hartmann survived WW2 without a scratch, although shot down several times. Eventually taken prisoner by the russians for 11 years.

Heintz Bar- 220 kills, 16 of those while he flew the ME-262,top scoring jet ace of WW2. Killed in air crash 1957

Adolf Galland- 104 kills, all against western allied aircraft

Werner Molders- 101 kills in WW2, 14 in the spanish civil war. Killed in a flying accident in 1941

Hermann Wilhelm Goering- head of Luftwaffe in WW2, 22 kills in WW1.

JAPAN

Tetsuzo Iwamato- top scoring japanese ace with 94 kills although many were either shared or probables

Saburo Sakai- 64 kills, Sakai was shot in the face by a 20mm round, although blinded in one eye he still fought on until the end of the war, and in 2000 his sight was surgically restored 100%

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