Originally Posted By: King Brown


In 1918, one third of the Royal Air Force fliers in action were Canadians. The top four Canadian aces accounted for 230 enemy planes. No other four fliers in the Allied Forces made records equal to that. The best four German fliers, with vastly better machines, had a record of 246.



But the surviving high scoring ace of WWI, from both sides, was a Frenchman: Captain Rene Fonck, with a total of 75. And shot a Verney-Carron double . . . probably not at Germans, however.