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Ace of aces is a title accorded to the top active ace within a branch of service in a nation's military in time of war. The term ace was used for highly successfull military professional that have accumulated multiple kills on enemy aircraft shot down, tanks destroyed, ships sunk, by number or tonnage. [ 1 ]
L'as des as (The Ace of Aces; alternate English title: The Super Ace) is a 1982 French-German action comedy film starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and directed by Gérard Oury. The Ace of Aces was a huge public success, reaching five and a half million spectators in France, which was the second best box office (after The Brain) for Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Lafayette Green Pool (July 23, 1919 – May 30, 1991) was an American tank-crew and tank-platoon commander in World War II and is widely recognized as the US tank ace of aces, [2] [page needed] credited with 12 confirmed tank kills and 258 total armored vehicle and self-propelled gun kills, over 1,000 German soldiers killed and 250 more taken as prisoners of war, [3] accomplished in only 81 ...
The film, which ran $1.5 million over budget and was a box-office flop, almost bankrupted McQueen. One of the movie's Porsche 917s sold for $14 million in 2017 . MorePixels/istockphoto
Ace of Aces was the first of its type creating a new genre of gaming. Bounty Hunter used much the same format for an old west gunfight (only one set was released, Shootout at the Saloon). Dragonriders of Pern used the Ace of Aces format in a contest to stop Threadfall.
Ace of Aces is a combat flight simulation game developed by Artech Digital Entertainment and published in 1986 by Accolade in North America and U.S. Gold in Europe. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was released for the Amstrad CPC , Atari 8-bit computers , Atari 7800 , Commodore 64 , MSX , MS-DOS , Master System , and ZX Spectrum .
A'ja Wilson had 30 points and 13 rebounds, and the two-time champion Las Vegas Aces opened their season Tuesday night by holding off a late rally and beating the Phoenix Mercury 89-80. Jackie ...
Ace of Aces featured five Waco 7s, five Travel Air Model B "Wichita Fokkers", a small number of Nieuport 28s, a Curtiss JN4 Jenny, Garland-Lincoln LF-1 (Nieuport 28 Replica), and a Fleet Model 1, along with two SE.5 mock-ups while a Waco also served as a camera plane for the aerial sequences. [4]