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Richard Bong is our top fighter pilot. He flew a P-38 Fighter. In World War II he got 40 kills. After they took him out of the war he was paraded around the country and assigned to test pilot duty. He married his sweetheart and died in a crash shortly after.
These are the American Aces for World War 2.
American acesNameVictoriesRichard Bong40Thomas McGuire+38David McCampbell34Gregory Boyington28Francis Gabreski28Robert Johnson28Charles MacDonald27Joseph Foss26George Preddy+26Robert Hanson+25Lance Wade+25
Editor's note: Your question fails to indicate which country or armed force. Technically the all time ace of any war or era is a German Luffwaffe Pilot Hartman.
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