Event class: victories, shot, victory, first, aerial, flying, squadron, aircraft, scored, two

Events with high posterior probability

Karl Willius	Unteroffizier Willius participated in the invasion of Russia in June 1941, and claimed his second victory on the opening day of Operation Barbarossa, when he downed a SB-2 bomber.
Peter Turnbull (RAAF officer)	42 during the Battle of Bardia on 26 December, and with damaging a Fiat G. 50 on 25 January 1941, the last sortie No. 3 Squadron flew with the Gladiator before converting to Hawker Hurricane s. On 3 April, he claimed four Messerschmitt Bf 110 heavy fighters in a single sortie flying a Hurricane he had christened Ortogo ; his commanding officer praised him as'' quick to the kill''.
Reginald H. Rusby	5 a, which he used for six single victories in May 1918 ; one of these was a triumph shared with fellow aces Francis James Davies and Charles G. Ross.
John C. B. Firth	He scored three'' out of control'' victories during November to end the year 1917 with nine wins.
John Inglis Gilmour	After a fourteen month gap in his aerial victory list, he scored flying a Sopwith Camel, on 18 December 1917.
Gustave Daladier	Between 14 April and 30 October 1917, he scored four victories, with one each being shared with Maurice Robert and Fernand Guyou.
Erich Hartmann	On 29 May 1944, Khazanov claimed Hartmann reported three La-5s shot down over Roman, Romania.
Helmut Bennemann	By the End of 1942 his score stood at 72 victories.
Franz Schall	At the beginning of September 1944, with his score at 116, he was transferred to the new Kommando Nowotny, named after its commander, Walter Nowotny, at that time the top fighter pilot in the world with 255 victories.
John Dundas (RAF officer)	In May 1940 his unit, No. 609 Squadron RAF, took part in the Battle of France during which Dundas claimed his first two victories.
G?nther Rall	Rall first saw combat during the Battle of France, and on 12 May 1940, he scored his first victory.
Hermann-Friedrich Joppien	On 28 August 1941 Joppien engaged in combat with Soviet fighters and bombers near Yelnya, southwest of Bryansk.
Jean Andr? Pezon	On 17 May 1918, he began his campaign against German aerial observers by teaming with Marius Ambrogi to destroy an enemy observation balloon near Juville.
Roald Dahl	The squadron was now equipped with Hawker Hurricane s. Dahl flew a replacement Hurricane across the Mediterranean Sea in April 1941, after seven hours flying Hurricanes.
Robin Olds	He completed his first combat tour on November 9, 1944, accruing 270 hours of combat time and six kills.
Edward Denman Clarke	He was then posted to No. 45 Squadron RFC, where he scored six aerial victories between 23 August and 20 October 1917.
Karl Deilmann	He scored his third aerial victory on 25 March 1917, and ran his total to six credited and one unconfirmed aerial victories by 17 August 1917.
Otto Kittel	By 13 February 1945, Kittel had a personal total of 266 aerial victories.
Keith Caldwell	Caldwell fought his last combat on 30 October 1918, claiming his 9th Fokker D. VII.
William R. Dunn	He was credited with the destruction of his 6th and final enemy aircraft in aerial combat in June 1944.
Max Stotz	Following aerial combat on 19 August 1943 with a large formation of Yakovlev fighters Stotz bailed out and was not seen again.
Zdzis?aw Henneberg	On 2 September 1940 Henneberg was credited with one damaged enemy aircraft.
Eddie Rickenbacker	After claiming yet another Fokker D. VII on September 27, he became a balloon buster by downing observation balloons on September 28, October 1, October 27, and October 30, 1918.
Heinrich Kroll	On 27 September 1917 with his score at 12, he received the first Pfalz D. III assigned to his Jasta.
Heinrich Ehrler	On 25 May 1944 he achieved nine victories in one day, bringing his tally up to 155.
William Reid (VC)	On the night of 3 November 1943, on the way to Düsseldorf, the windscreen of Flight Lieutenant Reid's Lancaster (serial LM360) was shattered by fire from a Messerschmitt Bf 110 and the gun turrets and cockpit badly damaged.
Max-Hellmuth Ostermann	On the Eastern front he claimed JG 54's 1,000 th victory of the war on 1 August 1941.
Erich Hartmann	For example, Khazanov claimed that on a mission on 20 August 1943, Hartmann claimed two victories west of Millerovo but not a single Soviet aircraft was lost.
Otto Schulz	Schulz also participated in the brief Balkan Campaign in April 1941, scoring two victories, flying out of airbases in Bulgaria then Greece.
Charles Bartlett (RAF officer)	He scored his first aerial victory on 2 July 1917.
Desmond Uniacke	His final victory took place on 17 September 1917 when, with Curtis in their Bristol F. 2b (A7224), he sent a two-seater out of control over Leke, West Flanders.
Dennis Waight	The next day, 22 August 1918, the crew of Waight and Harvey scored their last victory together ; teamed with other crews from 22 Squadron, they destroyed a Halberstadt reconnaissance two-seater northeast of Bailleul.
Jean Andr? Pezon	Cooperating with Ambrogi, Maurice Bizot, Charles J. V. Macé, and other French pilots, Pezon drove his score as a balloon buster to nine by 29 October 1918 ; he also downed a German two-seater reconnaissance plane.
Otto Kissenberth	As a member of Jasta 16b, he downed two SPAD s and flamed a balloon during Summer 1917, bringing his count to six.
Sydney Philip Smith	He shared a pair of claims on 16 March 1918, being aided by George Thomson.
Colin Brown (RAF officer)	There was a five-month lapse, but when he started scoring again on 27 April 1918, he accrued victories steadily until his climactic solo destruction of three Fokker D. VII s on 4 October 1918.
Erich Hartmann	On 25 May 1943, he shot down a LaGG-5 before colliding with another Soviet fighter but was able to maintain control of his damaged aircraft.
G?nther Rall	In April 1943, he was promoted to Hauptmann and on the 20th of that month scored the Geschwader's 5000th kill.
Marcel A. Hugues	With this unit, he scored twice more ; his latter win, on 4 June 1917, was shared with Armand Pinsard.
Joachim Helbig	When the campaign against Holland, Belgium, and France began in May 1940, Helbig was appointed Staffelkapitän (Squadron Leader) of 4.
Yekaterina Budanova	Lydia Litvyak, close friend of Budanova, and fellow'' ace'' pilot According to some historians, she shot down her first opponent -- a Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter -- on 14 September 1942, combining forces with Lydia Litvyak.
William Leeming Harrison	On 9 August 1917, he destroyed a German observation balloon over Arras for his first victory.
Richard John Cork	On 12 August 1942, during Operation Pedestal, he became the only Royal Navy pilot to shoot down five aircraft in one day, for which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO).
John Worrall (RAF officer)	Under his leadership, by the end of August 1940, 32 Squadron had claimed 71 enemy aircraft shot down for just 5 pilots killed.
Edward Gribben	He flew a Sopwith Camel to score five victories between 17 July and 13 August 1917.
Howard Clayton Knotts	On September 13, 1918 he shot down from four thousand feet, near Inchy-en-Artois, northeast of Bapaume, on Fokker biplane.''
Paul Frank Baer	Baer scored his fifth kill on 23 April 1918, making him the first Air Service ace.
Dietrich Hrabak	On 13 May 1940, he claimed his first victory, a French Potez 63 and he claimed five more victories before the armistice.
Jack Armand Cunningham	After a transfer to 18 Squadron in France, on 28 November 1915 Cunningham and his observer used a Vickers Gunbus to drive down an LVG reconnaissance machine down over La Bassée.
Hans-Joachim Marseille	On his second sortie, he scored another victory, and by the 15 September 1940, had claimed his fourth victory.
Paul Frank Baer	He scored his first aerial victory for the 103d, on 11 March 1918 ; it was the first triumph of an Air Service unit.
Hugh White (RAF officer)	Between 15 and 19 May 1918, he drove down an Albatros D. V and destroyed three Pfalz D. III s. His final victory of 19 May was an especially eventful one, as White collided with Karl Pech of Jasta 29 during a dogfight, killing the German ace.
Jesse Orin Creech	Between 15 August and 28 October 1918, he destroyed six enemy airplanes and drove one down out of control, including one shared with Field Eugene Kindley.
Alfred Williams Carter	On 24 July 1917, with one other pilot, he attacked four enemy aircraft, one of which he drove down completely out of control.''
Walter Matoni	/ Jagdgeschwader 27 (JG 27 -- 27th Fighter Wing) in the summer of 1940 and his first claim, a Hawker Hurricane followed on 30 September.
Walter Nowotny	With Richter, Nowotny claimed his final two aerial victories on the Eastern Front on 15 November 1943.
Laurence W. Allen	He would score twice in May while being piloted by Letts, being wounded in action on 24 May 1917 while downing his ninth foe.
Mick Mannock	On 12 August 1917, he shot down and captured Leutnant Joachim von Bertrab of Jasta 30 for his'' sixth Credit'' of 1 balloon and five enemy aircraft.
Harl Pease	During the first six months of the war, the 19th was awarded four Distinguished Unit Citation s. On August 6, 1942, one engine of Pease's B-17 failed during a mission, forcing a return to its base at Mareeba Airfield for repairs.
Frank Kendall Everest, Jr.	He completed 67 combat missions and destroyed four Japanese aircraft before his plane was shot down by ground fire in May 1945.
Heinz Sachsenberg	By the end of July 1943 he had shot down 22 enemy airplanes in heavy air combat over the Kuban bridgehead.
Otto Kittel	By mid-March 1943, Kittel had reached 46 victories, encompassing all types of aircraft.
Arthur Rahn	He scored his first aerial victories when he shot down two enemy observation balloons over Reims, France on 30 April 1917.
Reginald George Malcolm	He was credited with eight aerial victories scored during March, April, and May 1916.
Reinhard Seiler	On the opening day of the campaign (22 June 1941) he shot down 3 aircraft, thereby doubling his score, and as his unit leap-frogged to new airbases across the Baltic States over the next few weeks his score continued to rise.
Sumner Sewall	He was promoted to Flight Commander, and went on to score five victories over enemy planes between 3 June and 18 September 1918, sharing a couple of them with future general James Knowles and Edward Peck Curtis.
H. M. Darmstandler	He flew 21 combat missions and remained in Italy after V-E Day through July 1945, flying gasoline and oil into Trieste.
Max Kahlow	He scored his second aerial victory on 29 July 1917.
Lydia Litvyak	Merkle is the only pilot that claimed a Yak-1 on Dmitryevka (where she was last seen and was - reportedly - buried), on 1 August 1943, while Schleef claimed a LaGG-3 (often confused in combat with Yak-1s by German pilots) on the same day, in the South-Ukraine area where Litvyak's aircraft was at last found.
Brian Carbury	In his book The Last Enemy, Richard Hillary said of Carbury : | - | 31 August 1940 | Royal Air Force | Spitfire | 2 * Heinkel He 113 3 * Messerschmitt Bf 109 | | | - | September, 1940 | | | | | Awarded DFC | - | 2 September 1940 | Royal Air Force | Spitfire | 1 * Messerschmitt Bf 109 | | | - | 7 September 1940 | Royal Air Force | Spitfire | 2 * Messerschmitt Bf 109 | | | - | 14 September 1940 | Royal Air Force | Spitfire | 1 * Messerschmitt Bf 109 | | | - | 2 October 1940 | Royal Air Force | Spitfire | 1 * Messerschmitt Bf 109 | | | - | 7 October 1940 | Royal Air Force | Spitfire | 1 * Messerschmitt Bf 109 | | | - | 10 October 1940 | Royal Air Force | Spitfire | 2 * Messerschmitt Bf 109 | | | - | 14 October 1940 | Royal Air Force | Spitfire | | Damaged Junkers Ju 88 | | - | October, 1940 | Royal Air Force | Spitfire | | | Awarded DFC Bar | - | 25 December 1940 | Royal Air Force | Spitfire | | Damaged Junkers Ju 88 | Flying from RAF Turnhouse | - !
Fernand Jacquet	20 pusher with a Lewis gun, but it was his gunner, Henri de Vindevoghel, who fired the fatal seven shots from 30 yards that killed the pilot, doomed his gunner, Jacquet followed up with an indecisive combat on 20 June, when he claimed an enemy airplane driven down out of control, and on 28 July 1915, when he unsuccessfully claimed forcing an enemy plane to land.
Arthur Rhys-Davids	After a brief test on the 2 May 1917 in A4868 Rhys-Davids flew his first combat mission the following morning escorting Martinsyde G. 100 bombers from 27 Squadron.
Albert Deullin	He scored ten aerial victories in exactly another year, with triumph eleven coming on 10 February 1917.
Desmond Uniacke	Later that month, on 28 July 1917, Uniacke and Curtis in Bristol F. 2b (A7121) sent an Albatros D. III out of control over Ghistelles.
Marcel Nogues	On 26 September 1918, Nogues became a balloon buster ace, downing his fifth gasbag for his thirteenth victory.
George M. Cox	He scored four more through 17 May 1918, with his last one recorded while flying Camel no.
Robert W. Aschenbrener	Serving again as operations officer, he became an ace on November 24, 1944, when he downed three Kawasaki Ki-61 s ('' Tony'' s) and one Mitsubishi A6M Zero ('' Zeke'') in one day.
Norman C. Skogstad	His last confirmed kills occurred on March 25, 1945 where he destroyed four FW-190s over Olomouc, Moravia.
Sydney A. Oades	Oades was injured in an aircraft crash on 13 March 1918 ; he would not score another victory.
William A. Shomo	Two days after his first victory, on January 11, 1945, Captain Shomo and his wingman, Lieutenant Paul Lipscomb, were heading north for the Japanese airfields at Tuguegarao, Aparri, and Laoag, when they saw several enemy planes flying south at about.
David Endicott Putnam	While with the latter unit, he shot down four planes before being transferred to SPA 38 on 1 June 1918, where he claimed two more planes shot down.
Clive Caldwell	On 4 July 1941, Caldwell saw a German pilot shoot and kill a close friend, Pilot Officer Donald Munro, who was descending to the ground in a parachute.
Wolfgang Tonne	Leutnant Tonne achieved his first aerial victory against a Royal Air Force (RAF) Bristol Blenheim twin-engined bomber over Sedan on 14 May 1940.
Bob Braham	Three weeks later, on 20 January 1943, Braham claimed his first air victory ; a Do 217.
Paul Zorner	He claimed three Lancaster bombers on 23 -- 24 December, and another Lancaster near Luckenwalde as his 20th claim on 2 -- 3 January 1944.
Josef Wurmheller	He recorded his first victory, a Royal Air Force (RAF) Fairey Battle single-engined bomber of No. 150 Squadron RAF on 30 September 1939 (K9283, flown by S/L McDonald,crash-landed at Écury-sur-Coole.)
James Wellwood	Wellwood's final two victories were achieved on 4 November 1918 ; in separate patrols, he destroyed a Fokker D. VII and drove down another out of control.
Josef Kociok	This unit was soon engaged in the invasion of the USSR, where he obtained his first aerial victory on 30 June 1941, when he shot down a Tupolev SB bomber.
Donald Pleasence	His Avro Lancaster was shot down on 31 August 1944, during a raid on Agenville.
Josef Priller	Oberstleutnant Priller brought down his 100th claim in July 1944, a United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Consolidated B-24 Liberator.
Franz Woidich	A noteworthy achievement was made on 11 January 1944 when he claimed his 57th to 60th aerial victory.
Georges Guynemer	This was quite different later in 1918 with the French top ace René Fonck, who despite having 75 confirmed victories, had bad publicity for his arrogance and shameless self-promotion.
Joachim Helbig	During the German assault on Tobruk in 1942, Helbig, flying two missions per night, bombed the heavily defended fortress on ten consecutive nights.
Alfred Williams Carter	By November 1918, he had scored another 8 victories with the Sopwith Camel.
Henry Crowe	On 1 April 1918, he was shot down by antiaircraft fire, in a crash that totally destroyed his Bristol F. 2 Fighter, but escaped unharmed.
Yekaterina Budanova	According to regiment archivist Ekaterina K. Polunina on 2 October 1942 Budanova achieved her two first solo air victories, shooting down a Junkers Ju 88 and a Bf 109.
Adrien L. J. Leps	In May 1918, he teamed with Gabriel Guérin and Paul Santelli in wins over three German observation balloons and an Albatros ; on the 11th of the month, he received the British Military Cross.
Paul Wurtsmith	By May 1942, he had lost seven P-40s and three pilots while claiming the destruction of 38 Japanese aircraft.
Luigi Gorrini	During Summer 1943, in defence of Italy, he claimed 11 enemy aircraft.
Helmut Wick	Helmut Wick, accompanied by his Stabsschwarm -- including Oberleutnant Rudolf Pflanz, Leutnant Franz Fiby and Oberleutnant Erich Leie -- claimed his 55th aerial victory when he shot down a Spitfire on the afternoon of 28 November 1940.