List of World War I aces credited with 15–19 victories
Introduction
Aces  Name Country Air service(s) Victories Notes   Royal Flying Corps 19Distinguished Flying Cross with Bar. Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 19Military Cross   Royal Flying Corps 19Military Cross with two Bars. ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 19Military Merit Cross, Iron Cross   ''Aéronautique Militaire'' 19Médaille militaire, Croix de Guerre   Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 19Military Cross   ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 19 Military Merit Cross, Iron Cross   ''Aéronautique Militaire'' 19''Légion d'honneur'', ''Croix de Guerre'' with 14 Palmes, Belgian ''Croix de guerre'', British Military Cross, Italian ''Croix de la Couronne''   Royal Flying Corps 19Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross †  ''Luftfahrtruppen'' 19 Top Hungarian ace. Medal for Bravery (1 Gold, 1 Silver)   Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 19British Distinguished Flying Cross   Royal Flying Corps 19 Military Cross with Bar.†  Royal Flying Corps 19Distinguished Flying Cross with Bar. Royal Naval Air Service 19Distinguished Service Cross   Royal Flying Corps 19 Distinguished Service Order with Bar.†  ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 19 First aerial victory ever with a synchronized machine gun. Pour le Mérite, Iron Cross   ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 19 Iron Cross †  ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 18 Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross   ''Aéronautique Militaire'' 18Légion d'honneur, Médaille militaire, Croix de Guerre with ten Palmes and three étoiles de vermeil   Royal Flying Corps 18 Military Cross with Bar. ''Luftfahrtruppen'' 18Order of Leopold, Order of the Iron Crown, Medal for Bravery   ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 18 Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross   Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 18British Distinguished Flying Cross   US Army Air Service 18 Medal of Honor, Distinguished Flying Cross, Italian War Cross"The Balloon Buster"   Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force 18 Distinguished Flying Cross, Belgian Order of Leopold, French Légion d'honneur, French Croix de Guerre   Royal Flying Corps 18Military Cross with Bar, Italian Medal for Military Valor. Royal Flying Corps 18 Distinguished Flying Cross, French Croix de Guerre   ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 18 Iron Cross   Royal Flying Corps 18 Distinguished Flying Cross, Military Cross   Royal Flying Corps 18 Military Cross with Bar   Royal Flying Corps17Distinguished Flying Cross   ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 17 Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross   ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 17 Iron Cross   ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 17 Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross   Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force 17Distinguished Flying Cross Marziale Cerutti  ''Corpo Aeronautico Militare'' 17   Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 17Distinguished Flying Cross with Bar, Air Force Cross   Royal Flying Corps 17 Military Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross †  ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 17 Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross   Australian Flying Corps 17Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross, Air Force Cross   Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 17Distinguished Flying Cross   Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 17Distinguished Flying Cross   Royal Flying Corps 17 Distinguished Service Cross †  ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 17 Iron Cross   Royal Flying Corps 17 Military Cross   Royal Flying Corps 17 Distinguished Flying Cross    ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 17Iron Cross    ''Corpo Aeronautico Militare'' 17Three Silver awards of Medal for Military Valor, Military Order of Savoy, French ''Croix de guerre'' and Belgian ''Croix de guerre'', Serbian Star of Karageogevich Franz Ray  ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 17    ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 17 Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross   ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 17 Military Merit Cross   Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force 17Distinguished Flying Cross   Royal Flying Corps 17Military Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross   Royal Flying Corps 17Military Cross   Royal Flying Corps 16Distinguished Flying Cross,  French Légion d'honneur, French Croix de Guerre   Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 16Distinguished Flying Cross, French Légion d'honneur, French Croix de Guerre   ''Luftfahrtruppen'' 16 Medal for Bravery (3 Gold awards)   ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 16 Iron Cross First and Second Class, with Clasps. Knight's Cross and Oak Leaves for Iron Cross. Generalmajor in World War II. Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 16Distinguished Service Order, Distinguished Flying Cross   ''Aéronautique Militaire'' 16''Légion d'honneur'', ''Médaille militaire'', ''Croix de Guerre'' with 11 Palmes, Belgian Croix de guerre, British Military Cross   Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 16 Military Cross  Rose to Air Commodore in RAF   Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 16British Distinguished Flying Cross   Royal Flying Corps 16Distinguished Conduct Medal, Military Medal Bruce Digby-Worsley  Royal Flying Corps 16    Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force 16Distinguished Service Cross with Bar   Royal Flying Corps 16  Distinguished Conduct Medal, Military Medal, Italian Medal for Military Valor Stefan Fejes  ''Luftfahrtruppen'' 16 Gold Medal for Bravery (three awards), 1st Class Silver Medal for Bravery (2 awards), 2nd Class Silver Medal for Bravery   Royal Flying Corps 16 Knight of the Order of the Bath, Order of the British Empire, Distinguished Flying Cross. Rose to Air Chief Marshal. Royal Flying Corps 16 Military Cross †  ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 16 Royal House Order of Hohenzollern   Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 16Distinguished Flying Cross   Royal Flying Corps 16 Distinguished Flying Cross   Royal Flying Corps 16 Distinguished Conduct Medal with Bar   ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 16 Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross   ''Aéronautique Militaire''US Army Air Service 16French Légion d'honneur, Médaille militaire, and Croix de Guerre with ten Palmes, British Military Medal, Montenegrin Medal for Military Valor. ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 16  Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross, Austro-Hungarian Medal for Bravery   Royal Flying Corps 16 Distinguished Flying Cross   Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 16 Distinguished Flying Cross with Bar Wilhelm Seitz  ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 16 Iron Cross Francis Smith  Australian Flying Corps 16Military Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross Elliott White Springs  Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force, US Army Air Service 16 American Distinguished Service Cross, British Distinguished Flying Cross  David Stewart  Royal Flying Corps 16 Military Cross with Bar, Distinguished Flying CrossChristoffel Venter  Royal Flying Corps 16 Order of the Bath, Distinguished Flying Cross with Bar. Rose to Major General. Anthony Wall  Royal Flying Corps 16  Military Cross with Bar †  ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 16Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross  Vasili Yanchenko  Imperial Army Air Service 16Order of Saint George, Cross of Saint George (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Class), Order of Saint Vladimir, Order of Saint Anne, Order of the Star, Military Service Medal Pavel Argeyev  ''Aéronautique Militaire'', Imperial Army Air Service 15French Légion d'honneur, French Croix de Guerre, Order of Saint George, Order of Saint Vladimir, Order of Saint Anne Karl Bohnenkamp  ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 15 Military Merit Cross Lawrence Coombes  Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force 15 Distinguished Flying Cross Cyril Crowe  Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 15 Military Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross Charles Cudemore  Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 15 Military Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross Ralph Curtis  Royal Flying Corps 15  Ernest Deighton  Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 15 Distinguished Conduct Medal Armand De Turenne  ''Aéronautique Militaire'' 15Légion d'honneur, Croix de Guerre with 11 Palmes and an étoile de bronze, British Military Cross, Belgian ''Croix de guerre'', Italian Croce di guerre Albert Dossenbach  ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 15 ''Pour le Mérite, Military Merit Cross, Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross'' Rudolf Francke   ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 15 Military Merit Cross George Gates  Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force 15 Distinguished Flying Cross James Alpheus Glen  Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force 15Distinguished Service Cross with Bar, French Croix de Guerre Harry King Goode  Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 15 Distinguished Service Order, Distinguished Flying Cross John Rutherford Gordon  Australian Flying Corps 15Military Cross John Edmund Greene  Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force 15Distinguished Flying Cross Albert Haussmann†  ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 15 Edwin Hayne  Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force 15Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross Alois Heldmann  ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 15 Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross Frank Hobson  Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 15 Military Cross †  ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 15The Immelmann turn named after him. John Jones  Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 15 Distinguished Flying MedalAndrew Kiddie  Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 15Distinguished Flying Cross, Belgian ''Croix de guerre'' Otto Löffler  ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 15  Hans-Georg von der Marwitz  ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 15Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross  Harold Mellings Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force 15Distinguished Service Cross with Bar, Distinguished Flying Cross, Greek Royal Order of the Redeemer. Alfred Mills  Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 15Distinguished Flying Cross Edmund Nathanael†  ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 15Iron Cross  Wilhelm Neuenhofen  ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 15 Roy Cecil Phillipps  Australian Flying Corps 15Military Cross with Bar, Distinguished Flying Cross Viktor von Pressentin von Rautter†  ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 15 Military Merit Cross, Iron Cross Theodor Quandt  ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 15 Royal House Order of Hohenzollern Herbert Richardson  Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 15 Military Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross Gilbert Sardier  ''Aéronautique Militaire'' 15Légion d'honneur, Médaille militaire, Croix de Guerre with nine Palmes, an étoile de vermeil, and an étoile d'argent, British Military Cross Hugh Saunders  Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 15Order of the Bath, Order of the British Empire, Military Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross with Bar, Military Medal Julius Schmidt  ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 15 Military Order of St. Henry, Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross Kurt Schneider†  ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 15 Military Order of St. Henry, Iron Cross Harold Stackard  Royal Naval Air Service 15  Paul Strähle  ''Luftstreitkräfte'' 15 Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross Ernst Strohschneider  ''Luftfahrtruppen'' 15 Order of Leopold, Silver Military Merit Medal, Military Merit Cross (2 awards), Iron Cross Frank Weare  Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force 15 Military Cross
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