WW I Ace Scorecard:

Germans

Red Baron 80 victories

Ernst Udet 62 victories

British

Mick Mannock 73 victories

James McCudden 57 victories

French

Georges Guynemer 50 victories

Canadian

Billy Bishop 72 victories

South African

Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor 54 victories

American

Eddie Rickenbacher 26 victories

"Good thing that Billy Mitchell woke us all up to the importance of aircraft or we may not have won WW II", words of my WW II B24 copilot father (and Luftwaffe prisoner) at a 1964 Smithsonian exhibit.