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A flying Ace, fighter Ace or Air Ace is a military aviator credited
with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial
combat. The concept of the "Ace" emerged in 1915 during World War
I, at the same time as aerial dogfighting, and was a term often
also used to create heroes for domestic audiences, in what were
otherwise wars of attrition. The individual combat actions of Aces
were widely reported and disseminated as a chivalrous knight
reminiscent to ancient era. For a brief early period, the
exceptionally skilled pilot could shape the battle in the skies,
and approximately five percent of combat pilots account for the
majority of air-to-air victories. French newspapers were the first
to describe Adolphe Pegoud as an Ace in World War I, and later
Manfred von Richthofen, known as the "Red Baron. There were a large
number of Air Aces in World War II, and later in the Korean,
Vietnam, Iraq-Iran, and Arab-Israeli wars. This book covers 25 of
the greatest Air Aces across wars, nationalities and countries.
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