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Korean War Aces
Pilot |
Kills |
United
States |
Capt. Joseph C. McConnell, Jr |
16 |
Maj. James Jabarra |
15 |
Capt. Manuel J. Fernandez |
14½ |
Maj. George A. Davis, Jr |
14 |
Col. Royal N. Baker |
13 |
Maj. Frederick C. Blesse |
10 |
Lt Harold E. Fischer |
10 |
Lt Colonel Vermont Garrison |
10 |
Col. James K. Johnson |
10 |
Capt. Lonnie R. Moore |
10 |
Capt. Ralph S. Parr, Jr |
10 |
Lt James F. Low |
9 |
Robinson Risner |
8 |
Clifford Jolley |
7 |
Leonard Lilley |
7 |
Lt Henry Buttelman |
7 |
Maj. Donald Adams |
6½ |
Col. Francis S. Gabreski |
6½ |
Maj. James P. Hagerstrom |
6½ |
George Jones |
6½ |
Winton Marshall |
6½ |
Robert Love |
6 |
Maj. John F. Bolt |
6 |
James Kasler |
6 |
Maj. William T. Whisner |
5½ |
Robert Baldwin |
5 |
Capt. Richard S. Becker |
5 |
Maj. Stephen L. Bettinger |
5 |
Lt Guy B. Bordelon |
5 |
Richard Creighton |
5 |
Clyde Curtin |
5 |
Cecil Foster |
5 |
Ralph Gibson |
5 |
Capt. Robert Latshaw |
5 |
Robert Moore |
5 |
Dolphin Overton |
5 |
George Ruddell |
5 |
Col. Harrison Thyng |
5 |
William Westcott |
5 |
China |
Chao Bao Tun |
9 |
Kim Tsi Oc |
9 |
Fan Van Chou |
8 |
Russia |
Yevgeni Pepelyaev |
32 |
Nikolai Sutyagin |
21 |
Dimitri Oskin |
15 |
Lev Schukin |
15 |
Aleksandr Smurchkov |
15 |
Serafim Subbutin |
15 |
Mikhail Ponomarev |
14 |
A. Sherberstov |
14 |
Sergei Kramarenko |
13 |
Stepan Bakhaev |
11 |
Nikolai Dokaschenko |
11 |
Mikhail Mihin |
11 |
Grigory Okhay |
11 |
Dmitri Samoylov |
10 |
Arkady Boytsov |
10 |
Grigory Ges |
9 |
Vladimir I. Alfeyev |
8 |
Nikolai I. Inanov |
8 |
Grigory Pulov |
8 |
B. Bokach |
7 |
Muraviev |
7 |
Fedor Shebanov |
6 |
Nikolai Zameskin |
6 |
I. Zaplavnev |
6 |
Boris Abakumov |
5 |
Anatoliy Karelin |
5 |
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Notes
Shooting down at least five enemy aircraft during combat qualifies
as an ace. 'Half' and 'third' refers to kills being credited
to more than one pilot. Some claims to aces were exaggerated.
Sources
Edwards, P. M. Korean War Almanac. New York:
Facts On File, Inc., 2006. |
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