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Detached from: United States Navy, only US Navy air ace in World War I [1] Awarded: Distinguished Service Cross (AS, USA) Distinguished Flying Cross (UK) Légion d'honneur [48] August Thayer Iaccaci: Captain No. 20 Squadron RAF No. 48 Squadron RAF: 17 victories Awarded: Distinguished Flying Cross (UK) [49] James Alfred Keating: Lieutenant
United States Army Air Service pilots of World War I (176 P) Pages in category "American World War I pilots" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
Austro-Hungarian World War I pilots (1 C, 8 P) B. British World War I pilots (1 C, 58 P) C. Canadian World War I pilots (1 C, 10 P) F. French World War I pilots (1 C ...
The notion of an aerial "victory" arose from the first aerial combats, which occurred during the early days of World War I. Different air services developed their own definitions of exactly what an aerial victory might be, as well as different methods of assessing and assigning credit for aerial victories.
[1] The Nieuport 17, a French biplane fighter aircraft of World War I. While "ace" status was most often won by fighter pilots, bomber and reconnaissance crews, and observers in two-seater aircraft such as the Bristol F.2b ("Bristol Fighter"), also destroyed enemy aircraft. If a two-seater aircraft destroyed an aircraft, both crew members were ...
[1] While "ace" status was most often won by fighter pilots, bomber and reconnaissance crews, and observers in two-seater aircraft such as the Bristol F.2b ("Bristol Fighter"), also destroyed enemy aircraft. If a two-seater aircraft destroyed an aircraft, both crew members were credited with a victory.
[1] While "ace" status was most often won by fighter pilots, bomber and reconnaissance crews, and observers in two-seater aircraft such as the Bristol F.2b ("Bristol Fighter"), also destroyed enemy aircraft. If a two-seater aircraft destroyed an aircraft, both crew members were credited with a victory.
This is a list of flying aces in World War I from Canada.A flying ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. . Canadians served in the British flying services–the Royal Flying Corps, the Royal Naval Air Service, and the Royal Air Force, as Canada had no air arm until the formation of the Canadian Air Force on September 1