This is a list of Canadian flying aces.
World War I (1914–1918)
editThe following is a list of Canadians that achieved 5 or more victories during World War I. They achieved this while flying for the Royal Flying Corps, the Royal Naval Air Service, or the Royal Air Force.
Name | Victories | Service |
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William Avery Bishop | 72 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Raymond Collishaw | 60 | Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force |
Donald Roderick MacLaren | 54 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
William George Barker | 50 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Alfred Clayburn Atkey | 38 | Royal Flying Corps |
William Gordon Claxton | 37 | Royal Air Force |
Joseph Stewart Temple Fall | 36 | Royal Naval Air Service |
Frederick Robert Gordon McCall | 35 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Frank Granger Quigley | 33 | Royal Flying Corps |
Andrew Edward McKeever | 31 | Royal Flying Corps |
Albert Desbrisay Carter | 29 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Reginald Theodore Carlos Hoidge | 28 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Clifford Mackay McEwen | 27 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Frank Ormond Soden | 27 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Arthur Treloar Whealy | 27 | Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force |
William McKenzie Thomson | 26 | Royal Air Force |
Stanley Wallace Rosevear | 25 | Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force |
William Ernest Shields | 24 | Royal Air Force |
William Melville Alexander | 23 | Royal Air Force Royal Naval Air Service |
Joseph Leonard Maries White | 22 | Royal Air Force |
Harold Leslie Edwards | 21 | Royal Flying Corps |
Charles Robert Reeves Hickey | 21 | Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force |
Kenneth Burns Conn | 20 | Royal Air Force |
Camille Henry Raoul Lagesse | 20 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Arthur Bradfield Fairclough | 19 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Ellis Vair Reid | 19 | Royal Naval Air Service |
George Chisholm MacKay | 18 | Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force |
Alfred Williams Carter | 17 | Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force |
Stearne Tighe Edwards | 17 | Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force |
Carl Frederick Falkenberg | 17 | Royal Air Force |
Reginald Makepeace | 17 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Gerald Gordon Bell | 16 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Henry John Burden | 16 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
James Alpheus Glen | 15 | Royal Naval Air Service Royal Flying Corps |
John Edmund Greene | 15 | Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force |
Carleton Main Clement | 14 | Royal Flying Corps |
Albert Earl Godfrey | 14 | Royal Flying Corps |
John Victor Sorsoleil | 14 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
George Thomson | 14 | Royal Air Force |
Hazel LeRoy Wallace | 14 | Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force |
Thomas Frederic Williams | 14 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Frederick Carr Armstrong | 13 | Royal Naval Air Service |
Wilfred Austin Curtis | 13 | Royal Naval Air Service |
George Robert Howsam | 13 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Ernest Charles Hoy | 13 | Royal Air Force |
Harold Byron Hudson | 13 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Ronald McNeil Keirstead | 13 | Royal Naval Air Service |
John Gerald Manuel | 13 | Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force |
Wilfrid Reid May | 13 | Royal Air Force |
Stanley Stanger | 13 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Gerald Alfred Birks | 12 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Edwin C. Bromley | 12 | Royal Air Force |
William Leeming Harrison | 12 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
William Henry Hubbard | 12 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Gordon Budd Irving | 12 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
William Stanley Jenkins | 12 | Royal Air Force |
Roy Manzer | 12 | Royal Air Force |
Douglas McGregor | 12 | Royal Flying Corps |
Henry Coyle Rath | 12 | Royal Air Force |
Alexander MacDonald Shook | 12 | Royal Naval Air Service |
William Samuel Stephenson | 12 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Melville Wells Waddington | 12 | Royal Flying Corps |
James Butler White | 12 | Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force |
Fred Everest Banbury | 11 | Royal Naval Air Service |
Arnold Jacques Chadwick | 11 | Royal Naval Air Service |
Hiram Frank Davison | 11 | Royal Flying Corps |
William James Arthur Duncan | 11 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Charles Duncan Bremner Green | 11 | Royal Air Force |
William Roy Irwin | 11 | Royal Air Force |
Mansell Richard James | 11 | Royal Air Force |
George Owen Johnson | 11 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Emile John Lussier | 11 | Royal Air Force |
Harold Anthony Oaks | 11 | Royal Air Force |
Hilliard Brooke Bell | 10 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Lloyd Samuel Breadner | 10 | Royal Naval Air Service |
Arthur Roy Brown | 10 | Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force |
Frederick Elliott Brown | 10 | Royal Flying Corps |
Robert Dodds | 10 | Royal Flying Corps |
Alfred Michael Koch | 10 | Royal Flying Corps |
John Joseph Malone | 10 | Royal Naval Air Service |
Alfred Edwin McKay | 10 | Royal Flying Corps |
Guy Borthwick Moore | 10 | Royal Flying Corps |
Frank Harold Taylor | 10 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
William Henry Brown | 9 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
George William Bulmer | 9 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Leonard Arthur Christian | 9 | Royal Air Force |
Richard Jeffries Dawes | 9 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Roger Amedee Del'Haye | 9 | Royal Air Force |
George Clapham Dixon | 9 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
James Henry Forman | 9 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Acheson Goulding | 9 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Harold Spencer Kerby | 9 | Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force |
David MacKay McGoun | 9 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
William Wendell Rogers | 9 | Royal Flying Corps |
Ernest James Salter | 9 | Royal Air Force |
Anthony Spence | 9 | Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force |
Louis Mark Thompson | 9 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Kenneth Bowman Watson | 9 | Royal Air Force |
Bernard Beanlands | 8 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
William Benson Craig | 8 | Royal Air Force |
John Dartnell De Pencier | 8 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
William Durrand | 8 | Royal Flying Corps |
Austin Lloyd Fleming | 8 | Royal Flying Corps |
D'Arcy Fowlis Hilton | 8 | Royal Flying Corps |
Ernest Graham Joy | 8 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Kenneth William Junor | 8 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
William Myron MacDonald | 8 | Royal Air Force |
Reginald George Malcolm | 8 | Royal Flying Corps |
George Ivan Douglas Marks | 8 | Royal Flying Corps |
Roderick McDonald | 8 | Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force |
William Jackson Rutherford | 8 | Royal Flying Corps |
John Edward Sharman | 8 | Royal Naval Air Service |
John Henry Smith | 8 | Royal Air Force |
Langley Frank Willard Smith | 8 | Royal Naval Air Service |
Alexander Gordon Tyrrell | 8 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Claude Melnot Wilson | 8 | Royal Air Force |
Alan Duncan Bell-Irving | 7 | Royal Flying Corps |
David Luther Burgess | 7 | Royal Flying Corps |
Lynn Campbell | 7 | Royal Air Force |
Arthur Claydon | 7 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Ernest Francis Hartley Davis | 7 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Henry Eric Dolan | 7 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Conway Farrell | 7 | Royal Flying Corps |
George Buchanan Foster | 7 | Royal Air Force |
Eric Charlton Gilroy | 7 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
William Carrall Hilborn | 7 | Royal Air Force |
Jeffrey Batters Home-Hay | 7 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Arthur Eyguem De Montainge Jarvis | 7 | Royal Air Force |
Archibald Nathaniel Jenks | 7 | Royal Flying Corps |
Harold Waddell Joslyn | 7 | Royal Flying Corps |
Alfred Alexander Leitch | 7 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Malcolm Plaw MacLeod | 7 | Royal Air Force |
Roy Kirkwood McConnell | 7 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Ernest Morrow | 7 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
John Albert Page | 7 | Royal Naval Air Service |
Stanley Asa Puffer | 7 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Lewis Hector Ray | 7 | Royal Air Force |
Emerson Arthur Lincoln Fisher Smith | 7 | Royal Flying Corps |
Merrill Samuel Taylor | 7 | Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force |
Percival Ewart Appleby | 6 | Royal Air Force |
Henry Gordon Clappison | 6 | Royal Flying Corps |
Irving Benfield Corey | 6 | Royal Air Force |
Earl Frederick Crabb | 6 | Royal Air Force |
Jack Elmer Drummond | 6 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Herbert Howard Snowden Fowler | 6 | Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force |
Daniel Murray Bayne Galbraith | 6 | Royal Naval Air Service |
Richard Alexander Hewat | 6 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Ernest Tilton Sumpter Kelly | 6 | Royal Air Force |
Earl Stanley Meek | 6 | Royal Flying Corps |
Norman Craig Millman | 6 | Royal Flying Corps |
Gerald Ewart Nash | 6 | Royal Naval Air Service |
Medley Kingdon Perlee | 6 | Royal Flying Corps |
William Keith Swayze | 6 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Harry Lutz Symons | 6 | Royal Flying Corps |
George Leonary Trapp | 6 | Royal Naval Air Service |
Harry Ellis Watson | 6 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Harry Alison Wood | 6 | Royal Flying Corps |
George Benson Anderson | 5 | Royal Naval Air Service |
Louis Drummond Bawlf | 5 | Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force |
George Water Blaicklock | 5 | Royal Naval Air Service |
William Otway Boger | 5 | Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force |
Edward Borgfeld Booth | 5 | Royal Flying Corps |
William Eric Bottrill | 5 | Royal Air Force |
Harry Neville Compton | 5 | Royal Flying Corps |
John Bonnicher Crompton | 5 | Royal Flying Corps |
Lumsden Cummings | 5 | Royal Flying Corps |
Chester Stairs Duffus | 5 | Royal Flying Corps |
Edward Carter Eaton | 5 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
William Boyd Elliott | 5 | Royal Air Force |
Sydney Emerson Ellis | 5 | Royal Naval Air Service |
George William Gladstone Gauld | 5 | Royal Air Force |
John Gillanders | 5 | Royal Air Force |
William Gillespie | 5 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Edward Rochford Grange | 5 | Royal Naval Air Service |
Hugh Bradford Griffith | 5 | Royal Flying Corps |
John Playton Hales | 5 | Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force |
Joseph E. Hallonquist | 5 | Royal Air Force |
Earl McNabb Hand | 5 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Conrad Tolendal Lally | 5 | Royal Flying Corps |
Robert Hanzel Little | 5 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Ross Morrison MacDonald | 5 | Royal Air Force |
John Finlay Noel MacRae | 5 | Royal Flying Corps |
Patrick Scarsfield Manley | 5 | Royal Air Force |
William Drummond Matheson | 5 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
John Harry McNeaney | 5 | Royal Air Force |
Russel Fern McRae | 5 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Harold Arthur Sydney Molyneaux | 5 | Royal Air Force |
Harold Edgar Mott | 5 | Royal Naval Air Service |
Redford Henry Mulock | 5 | Royal Naval Air Service |
John Edward Pugh | 5 | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
James Robert Smith | 5 | Royal Flying Corps |
George Arthur Welsh | 5 | Royal Air Force |
Robert Kenneth Whitney | 5 | Royal Air Force |
World War II (1939–1945)
editThe following is a list of Canadians that achieved 5 or more victories during World War II.
Name | Victories | Service |
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George Frederick Beurling | 31.33 | Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force |
Henry Wallace McLeod | 21 | Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force |
Vernon Crompton Woodward | 19.83 | Royal Air Force |
William Lidstone McKnight | 16.5 | Royal Air Force |
Robert Wendell McNair | 16.5 | Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force |
Edward Francis John Charles | 15.5 | Royal Air Force |
James Francis Edwards | 15 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
William Klersy | 15 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Donald Currie Laubman | 15 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Robert Alexander Barton | 14.5 | Royal Air Force |
Arthur Benoit Leduc≈ | 14.5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
John Frederick McElroy | 14.5[1] | Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force |
Robert Carl Fumerton | 14 | Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force |
Percival Stanley Turner | 14 | Royal Air Force |
George Urquhart Hill | 13.53 | Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force |
Roderick Illingworth Alpine Smith | 13.25 | Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force |
George Clinton Keefer | 13 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
John Alexander Kent | 13 | Royal Air Force |
John Howard Turnbull | 12.5 | Royal Air Force |
Irving Farmer Kennedy | 12.08 | Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force |
Albert Ulrich Houle | 11.5 | Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force |
John MacKay | 11.2[2] | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Donald Campbell Gordon | 11 | Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force |
Eric Norman Woods | 10.66 | Royal Air Force |
Richard Joseph Audet | 10.5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Robert Allan Kipp | 10.5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
John Mitchner | 10.5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Dallas Wilbur Schmidt | 10.5 | Royal Air Force |
James Elmslie Walker | 10.5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Hamilton Upton | 10.33 | Royal Air Force |
Frederick Alan Aikman | 9.5 | Royal Air Force |
Leslie Cyril Gosling | 9.5 | Royal Air Force |
Wilfred John Banks | 9 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Russell Bannock | 9 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
George William Johnson | 9 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
John Urwin-Mann | 9 | Royal Air Force |
John Wiliam Williams | 9 | Royal Air Force |
George Noel Keith | 8.5 | Royal Air Force |
James Douglas Lindsay | 8.5 | Royal Air Force |
Geoffrey Wilson Northcott | 8.5 | Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force |
Hugh Charles Trainor | 8.5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Andrew Robert MacKenzie | 8.25 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
William Lawrence Chisholm | 8 | Royal Air Force |
Garth Edwards Horricks | 8 | Royal Air Force Royal Australian Air Force |
David Robert Charles Jamieson | 8 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Donald Mathew Pieri | 8 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
J.A. Ray | 8 | Royal Air Force |
Joseph Guillaume Laurent Robillard | 8 | Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force |
Rayne Dennis Schultz | 8 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
James Hamilton Ballantyne | 7.75 | Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force |
Robert Davidson Grassick | 7.5 | Royal Air Force |
Bruce Johnstone Ingalls | 7.5 | Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force |
Harry Deane MacDonald | 7.5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Robert Rutherford Smith | 7.5 | Royal Air Force |
John Blandford Latta | 7.33 | Royal Air Force |
James Duncan Smith | 7.33 | Royal Air Force |
George Patterson Christie | 7 | Royal Air Force |
Homer Powel Cochrane | 7 | Royal Air Force |
Hugh Constant Godefroy | 7 | Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force |
Douglas Irving Hall | 7 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
James D. Lindsey | 7[3] | |
Donald Aikens MacFayden | 7 | Royal Air Force |
Ian Roy MacLennan | 7 | Royal Air Force |
John Felton Mackie | 7 | Royal Air Force |
Thomas Lawrence Patterson | 7 | Royal Air Force |
Gordon Learmont Raphael | 7 | Royal Air Force |
James Dean Somerville | 7 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Noel Karl Stansfield | 7 | Royal Air Force |
James Arthur Walker | 7 | Royal Air Force |
Henry Paul Michael Zary | 7 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Lloyd Vernon Chadburn | 6.58 | Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force |
Robert Andrew Buckham | 6.5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Walter Allan Grenfell Conrad | 6.5 | Royal Air Force |
Robert Tremayne Pillsbury Davidson | 6.5 | Royal Air Force |
Harry Thorpe Mitchell | 6.5 | Royal Air Force |
Joseph Jean Paul Sabourin | 6.5 | Royal Air Force |
Harry James Dowding | 6.33 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Alfred Keith Ogilvie | 6.33 | Royal Air Force |
Gordon William Troke | 6.25 | Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force |
Howard Peter Blatchford | 6 | Royal Air Force |
Matthew S. Jr. Byrnes | 6 | United States Navy |
Lorne Maxwell Cameron | 6 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
William Watson Downer | 6 | Royal Air Force |
Charles Emanuel Edinger | 6 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Leslie Sydney Ford | 6 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
C.M. Jasper | 6 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Donald Harold Kimball | 6 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Joseph Emil Paul Laricheliere | 6 | Royal Air Force |
L.A. Moore | 6 | Royal Air Force |
William Henry Nelson | 6 | Royal Air Force |
George Pepper | 6 | Royal Air Force |
Lloyd Gilbert Schwab | 6 | Royal Air Force |
James Henry Whalen | 6 | Royal Air Force |
Frederick Albert William Johnson Wilson | 6 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Wilbert George Dodd | 5.58 | Royal Air Force |
J.F. Barrick | 5.5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
John Joseph Boyle | 5.5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Howard Douglas Cleveland | 5.5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Harry Elmore Fenwick | 5.5 | Royal Air Force |
Lionel Manley Gaunce | 5.5 | Royal Air Force |
Robert Kitchener Hayward | 5.5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Ernest A. McNab | 5.5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Guy Elwood Mott | 5.5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
David Edward Ness | 5.5 | Royal Air Force |
Rodney Thirsk Phipps | 5.5 | Royal Air Force |
Blair D. Russel | 5.5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Hugh Norman Tamblyn | 5.5 | Royal Air Force |
David John Williams | 5.5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
W.J.E. Harten | 5.41 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
H.D. Edwards | 5.33 | Royal Air Force |
Douglas Franklin Husband | 5.33 | Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force |
Ronald Robert Morrison | 5.33 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Donald George Reid | 5.33 | Royal Air Force |
Daniel Edward Noonan | 5.25 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Gregory Donald Angus Tunnicliffe Cameron | 5.2 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
R.M. Davenport | 5.2 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Hedley Joseph Everard | 5.2 | Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force |
Allen Benjamin Angus | 5 | Royal Air Force |
Michael Wilmont Hamilton Askey | 5 | Royal Air Force |
Foss Henry Boulton | 5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Russell Reginald Bouskill | 5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
William Ranson Breithaupt | 5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Ralph Isaac Edward | 5 | Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force |
P.R. Burton-Gyles | 5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
John Todd Caine | 5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Philip Marcel Charron | 5 | Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force |
H.A. Crawford | 5 | Royal Air Force |
Robert William Rouviere Day | 5 | Royal Air Force |
Cleo Gauthier | 6 | Royal Air Force |
Malcolm Grant Graham | 5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Paul Gilbert Johnson | 5 | Royal Air Force |
Milton Eardley Jowsey | 5 | Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force |
Walter Gordon Kirkwood | 5 | Royal Air Force |
Esli Gordon Lapp | 5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Arthur George Lawrence | 5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Charles McLaughlin Magwood | 5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Frederick Thomas Murray | 5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
John William Neil | 5 | Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force |
M. Reeves | 5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
A.H. Sager | 5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Donald John Sheppard | 5 | FAA |
Jackson Eddis Sheppard | 5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Albert Ivan Smith | 5 | Royal Air Force |
F.M. Smith | 5 | Royal Air Force |
Gordon Wonnacott | 5 | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Multiple wars
editThe following is a list of Canadians that achieved 5 or more victories throughout multiple wars.
Name | Total Victories | Notes |
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John Joseph Doyle | 5 | 4 victories in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and 1 in World War II |
Joseph Auguste Omer Lévesque | 5 | 4 victories in World War II and 1 in the Korean War |
Clifford Denzel Woodrow Wilson | 5 | 3 victories in 1948 Arab–Israeli War and 2 in World War II |
Notes
edit- ^ Also had 3 victories in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
- ^ Also had 1 victory in the Korean War
- ^ Also had 2 victories in the Korean War