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List of World War II aces credited with 8 victories

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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 service brought to the awarding of victory credits, et cetera.

Aces

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  This background, along with the symbol "†", indicates that the pilot was killed in action, missing in action, died of wounds, or was killed in a flying accident during World War II.

Name Country Service(s) Aerial victories Other aerial victories Notes
Charles E. Watts  United States U.S. Navy 8.75
John L. Banks  United States U.S. Navy 8.5
William E. Bryan, Jr.  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8.5
Stanisław Brzeski Poland Poland Polish Air Force;
Royal Air Force 		8.5
James B. Cain  United States U.S. Navy 8.5
Charles J. Cesky  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8.5
Oscar I. Chenoweth  United States U.S. Navy 8.5
Arthur Chin  United States Chinese Nationalist Air Force 8.5 First American ace of WWII, flew biplane fighter
Frank A. Cutler  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8.5 (+3 ground kills)
Carl C. Foster  United States U.S. Navy 8.5
John F. Gray  United States U.S. Navy 8.5
Everett G. Hargreaves  United States U.S. Navy 8.5
Thomas L. Hayes, Jr.  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8.5
Zdzisław Henneberg † Poland Poland Polish Air Force;
Royal Air Force 		8.5
John H. Hoefker  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8.5
Otto D. Jenkins  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8.5 (+2 ground kills)
Arthur G. Johnson  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8.5
George Noel Keith †  Canada Royal Canadian Air Force 8.5
Wacław Król Poland Poland Polish Air Force;
Royal Air Force 		8.5
Frank L. Lawlor  United States American Volunteer Group 8.5
Gregory K. Loesch  United States U.S. Marine Corps 8.5
Carl J. Luksic  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8.5 (+7 ground kills)
Donald McDowell  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8.5
Bernard J. McGrattan  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8.5
Sanford K. Moats  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8.5
John L. Morgan, Jr.  United States U.S. Marine Corps 8.5
George W. Pigman  United States U.S. Navy 8.5
Claude W. Plant  United States U.S. Navy 8.5
Albert L. Schlegel  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8.5
Dallas Schmidt  Canada Royal Canadian Air Force 8.5
Larry R. Self  United States U.S. Navy 8.5
Eugeniusz Szaposznikow Poland Poland Polish Air Force;
Royal Air Force 		8+1⁄3
John Fraser Drummond  United Kingdom Royal Air Force 8+1⁄3
Franklin T. Gabriel  United States U.S. Navy 8+1⁄4
George Bray McMillan  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8+1⁄4 (+1 ground kills)
Adolf Pietrasiak Poland Poland Polish Air Force;
Royal Air Force 		8.1
Witold Łokuciewski Poland Poland Polish Air Force;
Royal Air Force 		8
Helmut Lennartz  Germany Luftwaffe 8+[1] Jet ace with 8 victories in Me 262[2]
Erich Büttner  Germany Luftwaffe 8[2] Jet ace with all victories in Me 262
John M. Ainlay  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8 possibly just 7
John R. Alison  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
David W. Allen  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
John Allen †  United Kingdom Royal Air Force 8[3]
Wilfred Arthur  Australia Royal Australian Air Force 8[4]
Frederick A. Bardshar  United States U.S. Navy 8
Lloyd G. Barnard  United States U.S. Navy 8
Walter Beaumont †  United Kingdom Royal Air Force 8[5]
Walter G. Benz, Jr.  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
John Bisdee  United Kingdom Royal Air Force 8 (+2 shared)
Derek Boitel-Gill †  United Kingdom Royal Air Force 8[6]
William J. Bonneau  United States U.S. Navy 8
Robert J. Booth  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
Roy O. Burnett, Jr.  United States U.S. Navy 8
Andrew Bosman  South Africa South African Air Force 8[7] (+ 3 shared)
Walter J. Carroll, Jr.  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
William N. Case  United States U.S. Marine Corps 8
J. D. Collinsworth  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8 possibly just 6
Arthur W. Cruikshank  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
Václav Cukr-Cooper  Czechoslovakia Royal Air Force 8
John Curchin †  Australia Royal Air Force 8[8]
Robert Dafforn †  United Kingdom Royal Air Force 8[9]
Fernley H. Damstrom  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
John F. Dobbin  United States U.S. Marine Corps 8
Landis E. Doner  United States U.S. Navy 8
Frederick J. Dorsch  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
Walter F. Duke  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
William C. Edens  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8 (+3 ground kills)
John L. Elder  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8 (+13 ground kills)
Eric A. Evenson  United States U.S. Navy 8
Arthur C. Fielder, Jr.  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
Francis M. Fleming  United States U.S. Navy 8
James M. Fowle  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
William A. Gardner  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
Frank Gaunt  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8 possibly just 7
Francis R. Gerard  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
Clement D. Gile  United States U.S. Navy 8
Maxwell H. Glenn  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8 possibly just 5 (+3 ground kills)
Mathew M. Gordon  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
Leroy V. Grosshuesch  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
Fred E. Gutt  United States U.S. Marine Corps 8
Mayo A. Hadden, Jr.  United States U.S. Navy 8
Leonard Haines †  United Kingdom Royal Air Force 8[10] (+ 4 shared)
John Hall  United Kingdom Royal Air Force 8[11]
Peter Hall  New Zealand Royal New Zealand Air Force 8[11]
Aladár Heppes  Hungary Royal Hungarian Air Force 8
Frederick A. Harris  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
Kenneth F. Hart  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
Edwin J. Herman (or Hernan), Jr.  United States U.S. Marine Corps 8
George L. Hollowell  United States U.S. Marine Corps 8
Angus Horne  United Kingdom Royal Air Force 8
Jack M. Ilfrey  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
Mervyn Ingram †  New Zealand Royal New Zealand Air Force 8[12]
Michael J. Jackson  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8 (+5.5 ground kills)
Byron M. Johnson  United States U.S. Navy 8
John M. Johnson  United States U.S. Navy 8
John L. Jones  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
Claiborne H. Kinnard  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8 (+17 ground kills)
Pál Kovács †  Hungary Royal Hungarian Air Force 8
Charles M. Kunz  United States U.S. Marine Corps 8
Wolfgang Kuthe †  Germany Luftwaffe 8[13] Night fighter ace
William N. Leonard  United States U.S. Navy 8
Elvin L. Lindsay  United States U.S. Navy 8
Thomas E. Maloney  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8 possibly just 7
William R. Maxwell  United States U.S. Navy 8
Earl May, Jr.  United States U.S. Navy 8
Wallace McIntosh  United Kingdom Royal Air Force 8 Avro Lancaster tail gunner
Johnnie G. Miller  United States U.S. Navy 8
Erich Mix  Germany Luftwaffe 8 +3 in World War I possibly 13
William W. Momyer  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
Douglas W. Mulcahey  United States U.S. Navy 8
Alva C. Murphy  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
Joseph L. Narr  United States U.S. Marine Corps 8
George P. Novotny  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
John G. O'Neill  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
Edward M. Owen  United States U.S. Navy 8
Nathan T. Post  United States U.S. Marine Corps 8
Luther D. Prater, Jr.  United States U.S. Navy 8
Edward F. Roddy  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
Robert R. Rowland  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
Philip Sangermano (FO)  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
Charles W. Sawyer  United States American Volunteer Group;
U.S. Army Air Forces 		8 victories with 2 air forces
Glenn D. Schiltz Jr.  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
David A. Scott  United States U.S. Navy 8 possibly 9
Dale E. Shafer  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
Robert M. Shaw  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
William A. Shomo  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8 Ace in a day, awarded the Medal of Honor for this action
Irving Smith  New Zealand Royal New Zealand Air Force 8[14] Transferred to the Royal Air Force after WWII
Robert H. Smith  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
Gordon Arthur Stanley  United States U.S. Navy 8
Arland Stanton  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
John L. Sublett  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
Leopold Šrom  Czechoslovakia Royal Air Force 8
James B. Tapp  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
Philip Edward Tovrea Jr.  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
James O. Tyler  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
John Urwin-Mann  Canada Royal Air Force 8[15] (+2 shared victories)
Victor Verity  New Zealand Royal Air Force 8[16]
John W. Vogt, Jr.  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
Boyd D. "Buzz" Wagner  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8 First U.S. Armed Forces ace, within nine days of Attack on Pearl Harbor
Victor E. Warford  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8
Arthur T. Warner  United States U.S. Marine Corps 8
Charles E. Weaver  United States U.S. Army Air Forces 8 (+3 ground kills)
Hans-Dieter Weihs  Germany Luftwaffe 8[2] Jet ace with all victories in Me 262
Norman. F Williams  Australia Royal Australian Air Force 8 Bomber rear gunner
Rex Kerslake Wilson  Australia Royal Australian Air Force 8
Theodore H. Winters, Jr.  United States U.S. Navy 8
Donald K. Yost  United States U.S. Marine Corps 8
Dan Scurtu  Kingdom of Romania Royal Romanian Air Force 8
Traian Dirjan  Kingdom of Romania Royal Romanian Air Force 8
Eugen Cameceanu  Kingdom of Romania Royal Romanian Air Force 8
Mihai Mihordea  Kingdom of Romania Royal Romanian Air Force 8
Ioan Panaite  Kingdom of Romania Royal Romanian Air Force 8

References

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Citations

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  1. ^ Mathews & Foreman 2015, p. 1505.
  2. ^ a b c Morgan & Weal 1998, p. 88.
  3. ^ Shores & Williams 1994, p. 96.
  4. ^ Shores & Williams 1994, pp. 99–100.
  5. ^ Shores & Williams 1994, p. 121.
  6. ^ Shores & Williams 1994, pp. 136–137.
  7. ^ Shores & Williams 1994, p. 137.
  8. ^ Shores & Williams 1994, pp. 202–203.
  9. ^ Shores & Williams 1994, p. 206.
  10. ^ Shores & Williams 1994, p. 307.
  11. ^ a b Shores & Williams 1994, p. 308.
  12. ^ Shores & Williams 1994, p. 350.
  13. ^ Mathews & Foreman 2015, p. 1504.
  14. ^ Shores & Williams 1994, p. 555.
  15. ^ Shores & Williams 1994, p. 601.
  16. ^ Shores & Williams 1994, pp. 606–607.

Bibliography

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  • Mathews, Andrew Johannes; Foreman, John (2015). Luftwaffe Aces — Biographies and Victory Claims — Volume 4 S–Z. Walton on Thames: Red Kite. ISBN 978-1-906592-21-9.
  • Morgan, Hugh; Weal, John (1998). German Jet Aces of World War 2. Aircraft of the Aces. Vol. 17. London; New York: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85532-634-7.
  • Shores, Christopher; Williams, Clive (1994). Aces High: A Tribute to the Most Notable Fighter Pilots of the British and Commonwealth Forces in WWII. London: Grub Street. ISBN 1-8-9869-7000.
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