List of World War I aces credited with 20 or more victories
Aces
This list is complete. Notable aces are linked to their biographies.

List of World War I aces credited with 20 or more victories

Section Title: Aces
Table Section Text: This list is complete. Notable aces are linked to their biographies.

Name	Country	Air service(s)	Victories	Note

Manfred von Richthofen†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	80	The Red Baron PLM plus 22 other awards

René Fonck	France	Aéronautique Militaire	75	Top Allied and French ace CdeLd'h, MM(Fr), CdeG, BCdeG, MC, MM

Billy Bishop	Canada	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	72	Top Canadian and British Empire ace VC, CB, DSO*, MC, DFC.

Ernst Udet	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	62	PLM, HOH, IC

Edward Mannock†	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	61	Top Irish ace VC, DSO**, MC*.

Raymond Collishaw	Canada	Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force	60	Top Royal Naval Air Service ace DSO*, DSC, DFC, OSA, CdeG

James McCudden†	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	57	VC, DSO*, MC*, MM, CdeG

Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor	South Africa	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	54	Top South African ace VC, DSO, MC*, DFC

Erich Löwenhardt†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	54	PLM, IC

Donald MacLaren	Canada	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	54	DSO, MC*, CdeLd'h, CdeG

Georges Guynemer†	France	Aéronautique Militaire	53	CdeLd'h, MM(Fr), CdeG, DSO, OLII

William George Barker	Canada	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	50	VC, DSO*, MC**, MMV*(Silver), CdeG

Josef Jacobs	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	48	PLM, IC

Werner Voss†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	48	PLM, HOH, IC

Robert A. Little†	Australia	Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force	47	Top Australian ace DSO*, DSC*, CdeG

George McElroy†	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	47	MC**, DFC*

Fritz Rumey†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	45	PLM, IC

Albert Ball†	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	44	VC, DSO**, MC, OSG

Rudolf Berthold	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	44	PLM, MOSH, IC

Bruno Loerzer	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	44	PLM, HOH, IC

Paul Bäumer	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	43	PLM, MMC(P), IC, WB

Tom F. Hazell	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	43	DSO, MC, DFC*

Charles Nungesser	France	Aéronautique Militaire	43	CdeLd'h, MM(Fr), CdeG, DSC, MC, BCdeG, DSC(US)

Georges Madon	France	Aéronautique Militaire	41	CdeLd'h, MM(Fr), CdeG

Oswald Boelcke†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	40	PLM, IC

Franz Büchner	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	40	PLM, MOSH, HOH, IC

Philip F. Fullard	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	40	DSO, MC*, AFC

Lothar von Richthofen	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	40	PLM, HOH, IC

Roderic Dallas†	Australia	Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force	39	DSO, DSC*

Charles George Gass	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	39	Top scoring observer ace MC

John Inglis Gilmour	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	39	DSO, MC

Heinrich Gontermann†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	39	PLM, HOH, MOMJ, IC

William Lancelot Jordan	South Africa	Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force	39	DSC*, DFC

Carl Menckhoff	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	39	PLM, HOH, IC

Alfred Atkey	Canada	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	38	Leading 2 seater pilot of war MC*

William Gordon Claxton	Canada	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	37	DSO, DFC*

Willy Coppens	Belgium	Belgian Military Aviation	37	Top Belgian ace, Leading balloon buster of war OL, OWE, OC, CdeG, BCdeG, CdeLd'H, DSO, MC

James Ira Thomas Jones	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	37	DSO*, MC, DFC*

Karl Bolle	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	36	PLM, HOH, IC

Julius Buckler	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	36	PLM, MMC(P), IC, sole award of Gold WB

Joseph Stewart Temple Fall	Canada	Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force	36	DFC**, AFC

Max Ritter von Müller†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	36	PLM, MOMJ, IC

Maurice Boyau†	France	Aéronautique Militaire	35	CdeLd'h, MM(Fr), CdeG

Godwin von Brumowski	Austria-Hungary	Luftfahrtruppen	35	Top Austro-Hungarian ace. OIC, OL, MFB, MMM, IC

Gustav Dörr	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	35	MMC(P), IC

Otto Könnecke	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	35	PLM, MMC(P), HOH, IC

Frederick McCall	Canada	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	35	DSO, MC*, DFC

Eduard Ritter von Schleich	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	35	PLM, IC, MOMJ

Emil Thuy	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	35	PLM, HOH, IC

Josef Veltjens	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	35	PLM, HOH, IC

Henry Winslow Woollett	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	35	DSO, MC*, CdeLd'h

Francesco Baracca†	Italy	Corpo Aeronautico Militare	34	Top Italian ace MMV(Gold), MMV**(Silver), MC, CdeG, OC

Michel Coiffard†	France	Aéronautique Militaire	34	CdeLd'h, MM(Fr), MC

Heinrich Bongartz	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	33	PLM, HOH, IC

Heinrich Kroll	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	33	PLM, HOH, IC

Frank Granger Quigley†	Canada	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	33	DSO, MC*

Kurt Wolff†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	33	PLM, HOH, IC

Julius Arigi	Austria-Hungary	Luftfahrtruppen	32	MFB (1 gold and 4 silver)

Geoffrey Hilton Bowman	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	32	DSO, MC*, DFC

Hermann Frommherz	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	32	MOSH, IC

Samuel Kinkead	South Africa	Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force	32	DSO, DSC*, DFC*

Theodor Osterkamp	German Empire	Marinefliegerkorps	32	Also World War II ace PLM, IC

Paul Billik	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	31	IC

Andrew Edward McKeever	Canada	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force, Canadian Air Force	31	Top two-seater ace for UK DSO, MC*, DFC

Gotthard Sachsenberg	German Empire	Marinefliegerkorps	31	PLM, HOH, IC

Karl Allmenröder†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	30	PLM, HOH, IC

Carl Degelow	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	30	PLM, HOH, IC

Josef Mai	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	30	IC

Ulrich Neckel	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	30	PLM, IC

Karl Emil Schäfer†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	30	PLM, HOH, IC

Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson†	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	30	MC, DFC

Harald Auffarth	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	29	HOH, IC, WB

Charles Dawson Booker†	United Kingdom	Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force	29	DSC, CdeG

Percy Jack Clayson	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	29	MC, DFC

Harry Cobby	Australia	Australian Flying Corps	29	DSO, DFC**

Leonard Henry Rochford	United Kingdom	Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force	29	DSC*, DFC*

Walter Blume	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	28	PLM, IC

Léon Bourjade	France	Aéronautique Militaire	28	CdeLd'h, CdeG

Walter von Bülow-Bothkamp†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	28	PLM, MOSH, IC

Albert Desbrisay Carter†	Canada	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	28	DSO*, CdeG

Benno Fiala Ritter von Fernbrugg	Austria-Hungary	Luftfahrtruppen	28	OIC, OL, MMC(AH), MMM, MFB, IC

Robert Ritter von Greim	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	28	PLM, IC, MOMJ

John Everard Gurdon	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	28	DFC

Reginald Hoidge	Canada	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	28	MC*

Dennis Latimer	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	28	MC, DFC

Arthur Laumann	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	28	PLM, HOH, IC

Friedrich Ritter von Röth	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	28	PLM, HOH, IC, MOMJ

Fritz Otto Bernert	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	27	PLM, IC

Otto Fruhner	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	27	MMC(P), IC

Hans Kirschstein†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	27	PLM, HOH, IC

Frank Linke-Crawford†	Austria-Hungary	Luftfahrtruppen	27	OIC

Clifford McEwen	Canada	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	27	MC, DFC*, MMV

Thomas Percy Middleton	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	27	DFC

Armand Pinsard	France	Aéronautique Militaire	27	CdeLd'h, MM(Fr), CdeG, MC

Arthur Rhys Davids†	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	27	DSO, MC*

Frank Ormond Soden	Canada	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	27	DFC*

Karl Thom	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	27	PLM, MMC(P), HOH, IC

Adolf Ritter von Tutschek†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	27	PLM, HOH, IC, MOMJ

Arthur Whealy	Canada	Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force	27	DSC*, DFC

Kurt Wüsthoff	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	27	PLM, HOH, IC

Oskar Freiherr von Boenigk	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	26	PLM, IC

Eduard Ritter von Dostler†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	26	PLM, HOH, IC, MOMJ

Ronald Malcolm Fletcher	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	26	Observer ace DFM

William Frederick James Harvey	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	26	MC, DFC*

Elwyn King	Australia	Australian Flying Corps	26	DSO, DFC

Gerald Joseph Constable Maxwell	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	26	DFC, MC, AFC

Max Näther†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	26	HOH, IC

Eddie Rickenbacker	United States	US Army Air Service	26	Top US ace MOH, DSC(US), CdeLd'h, CdeG

Silvio Scaroni	Italy	Corpo Aeronautico Militare	26	MMV(Gold), MMV*(Silver)

William Ernest Staton	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	26	DSO*, MC, DFC*

William McKenzie Thomson	Canada	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	26	MC, DFC

Olivier Freiherr von Beaulieu-Marconnay†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	25	PLM, IC

Keith Caldwell	New Zealand	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	25	Top New Zealander ace MC, DFC*

Robert J. O. Compston	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	25	DSC**, DFC

Georg von Hantelmann	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	25	HOH, IC

Fritz Pütter†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	25	PLM, IC

Stanley Wallace Rosevear†	Canada	Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force	25	DSC*

Erwin Böhme†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	24	PLM, HOH, IC

Peter Carpenter	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	24	DSO, MC*, MMV

George S. L. Hayward	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	24	Observer ace MC

Harry G. E. Luchford†	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	24	MC*

Georg Meyer	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	24	IC

Tom Cecil Noel†	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	24	Observer ace MC*

Pier Ruggero Piccio	Italy	Corpo Aeronautico Militare	24	MMV**(Silver)

William Ernest Shields	Canada	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	24	DFC*

James Anderson Slater	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	24	MC*, DFC

William Melville Alexander	Canada	Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force	23	DSC

Hermann Becker	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	23	HOH, IC

William Charles Campbell	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	23	DSO, MC*

René Dorme†	France	Aéronautique Militaire	23	CdeLd'h, MM(Fr), CdeG

Matthew Brown Frew	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	23	DSO, MC*, AFC, MMV

Gabriel Guerin†	France	Aéronautique Militaire	23	CdeLd'h, MM(Fr), CdeG

Howard Percy Lale	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	23	DSO, DFC*

Alexander Pentland	Australia	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	23	MC, DFC

Harold Whistler	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	23	DSO, DFC*

Hermann Göring	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	22	PLM, HOH, IC

Thomas Sinclair Harrison	South Africa	Royal Flying Corps	22	DFC*, BCdeG

Marcel Haegelen	France	Aéronautique Militaire	22	CdeLd'h, MM(Fr), CdeG

Louis Fleeming Jenkin†	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	22	MC*

Cecil Frederick King†	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	22	MC, DFC, CdeG

Hans Klein	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	22	PLM, HOH, IC

John Leacroft	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	22	MC*

Arthur Ernest Newland	United Kingdom	Royal Air Force	22	Observer ace DFM*

Hans Martin Pippart†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	22	IC

Werner Preuss	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	22	HOH, IC

Pierre Marinovitch	France	Aéronautique Militaire	22	CdeLd'h, MM(Fr), CdeG

Benjamin Roxburgh-Smith	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	22	DFC*, BCdeG

Karl Schlegel†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	22	IC

Joseph Leonard Maries White	Canada	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	22	DFC*, BCdeG

Rudolf Windisch†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	22	PLM, HOH, IC

Hans von Adam†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	21	HOH

Friedrich Altemeier	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	21	MMC(P), IC, WB

Flavio Baracchini	Italy	Corpo Aeronautico Militare	21	MMV(Gold)

Francis Cubbon†	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	21	Observer ace MC*

Harold Leslie Edwards	Canada	Royal Air Force	21	DFC, MM

Friedrich Friedrichs†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	21	PLM, HOH, IC

Alfred Heurtaux	France	Aéronautique Militaire	21	CdeLd'h, CdeG

Charles Hickey†	Canada	Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force	21	DFC*

Fritz Höhn†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	21	HOH, IC

William John Charles Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	21	DSO, MC*

Richard Maybery†	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	21	MC

Edgar McCloughry	Australia	Australian Flying Corps	21	DSO, DFC*

Richard Minifie	Australia	Royal Naval Air Service	21	DSC**

Friedrich T. Noltenius	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	21	HOH, IC

George Edwin Thomson†	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	21	DSO, MC, DFC

Leonard Monteagle Barlow†	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	20	MC

Douglas John Bell†	South Africa	Royal Flying Corps	20	MC*

Hans Bethge	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	20	HOH, IC

Kenneth Burns Conn	Canada	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	20	DFC

Albert Deullin	France	Aéronautique Militaire	20	CdeLd'h, CdeG

Rudolf von Eschwege†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	20	HOH, IC, Bulgarian Order for Bravery in War

Wilhelm Frankl†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	20	PLM, HOH, IC

Hans von Freden	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	20	IC

Francis W. Gillet	United States	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	20	DFC*, BCdeG

Walter Göttsch†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	20	HOH, IC

Oskar Hennrich	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	20	MMC, IC

Edgar Johnston	Australia	Australian Flying Corps	20	DFC

Alexander Kazakov	Russia	Imperial Army Air Service	20	Top Russian ace OSG, OSV, OSS, OSA, DSO, MC, DFC, CdeLd'h, CdeG

Otto Kissenberth	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	20	PLM, HOH, IC

Camille Lagesse	Canada	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	20	DFC*

Ian Donald Roy McDonald	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	20	MC, DFC

Keith Park	New Zealand	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force	20	MC*, DFC, CdeG

Wilhelm Reinhard†	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	20	HOH, IC

Charles G. Ross	South Africa	Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force, South African Air Force	20	CBE, DFC*, BCdeG

Fulco Ruffo di Calabria	Italy	Corpo Aeronautico Militare	20	MMV(Gold), MMV*(Silver), MMV***(Bronze)

Otto Schmidt	German Empire	Luftstreitkräfte	20	HOH, IC

Walter Southey	South Africa	Royal Flying Corps	20	DFC

Frederick Thayre†	United Kingdom	Royal Flying Corps	20	MC*

Sentence(s)

James McCudden had achieved 57 aerial victories, placing him seventh on the list of the war I aces.

final_sentence: James McCudden had achieved 57 aerial victories, placing him seventh on the list of the war I aces.