ace of aces
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Noun[edit]
ace of aces (plural aces of aces)
- (military) The greatest active flying ace in a nation's military service.
- 1918, The New York Times, 16 June
- Brookline Man Supplants Baylies as the American Ace of Aces if His Record Stands.
- 1940, Los Angeles Times, 13 July
- the U-boat commander who drowned them was Hitler's subsea ace of aces
- 1944, The New York Times, 14 April
- Bong Downs 27th Japanese Plane And Becomes U. S. 'Ace Of Aces'
- 1954, Time, 6 September
- Top ace of aces was Captain Joseph C. McConnell Jr. of Apple Valley, Calif., who posted the unequaled high score for Korea
- 1968, Los Angeles Times, 4 March
- Yet virtually larger than life in the eyes of his contemporaries, the "scourge of the skies," the "ace of aces,"
- 2001, Roman Johann Jarymowycz, Tank Tactics: From Normandy to Lorraine
- The ace of aces was dead.
- 1918, The New York Times, 16 June
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ace with the greatest number of kills
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