Top Ten Spitfire aces

[knusel]

Hello, this is my Spitfire top ten ace list. Enjoy. Michael

NAME NAT SPITFIRE KILLS
1. James Johnson GB 36,92 [34+7]
2. George Beurling CA 31,33 [31+1]
3. Adolph Malan SA 29,75 [27+7]
4. Brendan Finucane IR 29 [26+6]
5. Colin Gray NZ 27,7 [27+2] (+0,5 [0+1] in Hurricane)
6. Eric Lock GB 26,5 [26+1]
7. Neville Duke GB 22 (+4,83 [4+2] in P-40)
8. Donald Kingaby GB 21,67 [21+2]
9. Henry McLeod CA 21
10. William Crawford NZ 20,5 [20+1]

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• The top Spitfire IX ace is Johnson (29,08 victories)
• The top Spitifre V ace is Beurling (29,33 victories)
• Is Lock the top Spitfire I ace (21 victories) or has Kingaby more ?

Michael

[Juha]

Hello Michael
Kingaby: according to Shores et. al. Aces High (1994) 8 1/6 conf 2 prob 6 dam while flying Mk I. Vol 2 doesn't change the numbers.

Juha

[knusel]

Good evening Juha,

thanks for the info.
Kingaby switched to the Spitfire V afterwards which renders Eric Lock the top Spitfire I ace.
Can you tell me if any American pilots ever scored more Spitifre kills than Lance Wade's 10 ?

Have a nice evening,

Michael

[Juha]

Sorry Michael
I cannot help with US aces.

Juha

[knusel]

Good evening Juha,

Wade served in the RAF.
In fact he's the most successful American ace to fly in a foreign service.
He had 13 Hurricane kills and 10 Spitfire kills.

Kind regards,

Michael

[knusel]

...the top US Spitfire ace is John Lynch with 13 kills in that type.

[knusel]

Good evening,

I think, the Spitfire aces were the most international bunch of them all:

SPITFIRE TOP ACES BY NATION (nation/name/Spitfire score)
1. Great Britain: James Johnson 36,92
2. Canada: George Beurling 31,33
3. South Africa: Adolph Malan 29,75
4. Ireland: Brendan Finucane 29
5. New Zealand: Colin Gray 27,2
6. Greece: Ioannis Plagis 16
7. Australia: Paterson Hughes 15,17
8. France: Jean-Francois Demozay 13
9. USA: John Lynch 13
10. Rhodesia (independent from 1965 onwards): William Maguire 12
11. Norway: Svein Heglund 11,33
12. Poland: Eugeniusz Horbaczewski 11
13. Denmark: Kaj Birksted 10,5
14. Czechoslovakia (1918-1992): Otto Smik 9
15. Belgium: Yvan Du Monceau 8
16. Netherlands: Hugh Godefroy 7
17. Soviet Union (1922-1991): Sergey Martynov 6

However, somewhere I read that Hugh Godefroy had the Canadian citizenship. Did he have the Dutch citizenship, too ?

Cheers,

Michael