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Name Kills Awards Notes Aikman, Frederick Alan: 10: DFC* Wingman of Paddy Finucane: Angus, Allen Benjamin: 5: DFC: KIA 16 May 1940 Archer, Philip Leslie I: 6: DFC: KIA 17 June 1943
Clifford "Denny" Wilson, served in both World War II and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War The following is a list of Canadians that achieved 5 or more victories throughout multiple wars. Name
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Fighter aces in World War II had tremendously varying kill scores, affected as they were by many factors: the pilot's skill level, the performance of the airplane the pilot flew and the planes they flew against, how long they served, their opportunity to meet the enemy in the air (Allied to Axis disproportion), whether they were the formation's leader or a wingman, the standards their air ...
Canada. There were 152 air aces from Canada during the Second World War. For more information, see List of World War II aces from Canada.. China. There were more than 25 fighter aces from China during the Second World War, although not all flew for the Allies.
James Francis Edwards, CM, DFC & Bar, DFM, CD (5 June 1921 – 14 May 2022), later known as Stocky Edwards, was a Canadian fighter pilot during World War II. With 19 confirmed aerial victories, Edwards was Canada's highest scoring ace in the Western Desert Campaign.
Irving Farmer 'Hap' Kennedy DFC & Bar (4 February 1922 – 6 January 2011 [1]) was a Canadian fighter pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) during the Second World War. He was one of Canada's highest-scoring aces of the war, with 10 solo and 5 shared aircraft destroyed, and 1 probably destroyed.
According to Obermaier, 103 Luftwaffe pilots were credited with more than 100 aerial victories. [3] Further more, the US historian David T. Zabecki states that 105 Luftwaffe pilots were credited with more than 100 aerial victories, [4] adding Friedrich Wachowiak with 140 aerial victories, [5] and Paul-Heinrich Dähne with 100 aerial victories, who were not listed by Obermaier.