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Ace (military)

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Ace, when used in the context of military propaganda, denotes a successful military professional who has accumulated a meaningfully measurable statistic such as aircraft shot down, tonnage sunk, or a number of successful sniper shots. [1]

18 relations: Ace (disambiguation), Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War, Benjamin Bryant, Carvalho Araújo, Convoy HX 112, Erich Hartmann, Franz Kurowski, Infantry Aces, James Wiggin Coe, List of aces of aces, Malcolm Wanklyn, Panzer ace, Panzer Aces (book series), Propaganda, SS Calabria (1922), Sydney Valpy Radley-Walters, The Blond Knight of Germany, Trevor James Constable.

Ace (disambiguation)

An ace is a playing card.

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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War

is a semi-realistic flight simulator developed by Bandai Namco Games for the PlayStation 2 video game console.

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Benjamin Bryant

Rear Admiral Benjamin Bryant (16 September 1905 – 23 November 1994) was a Royal Navy officer noted for his submarine exploits during World War II.

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Carvalho Araújo

José Botelho de Carvalho Araújo (18 May 1881 – 14 October 1918) was a Portuguese Navy officer and colonial administrator, who died in action against a German U-boat in World War I.

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Convoy HX 112

HX 112 was a North Atlantic convoy of the HX series which ran during the battle of the Atlantic in the Second World War.

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Erich Hartmann

Erich Alfred Hartmann (19 April 1922 – 20 September 1993), nicknamed "Bubi" ("The Kid") by his German comrades and the "Black Devil" by his Soviet adversaries, was a German fighter pilot during World War II and the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare.

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Franz Kurowski

Franz Kurowski (November 17, 1923 − May 28, 2011) was a German author of fiction and non-fiction who specialised in World War II topics.

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Infantry Aces

Infantry Aces is an English-language book by the German author Franz Kurowski.

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James Wiggin Coe

Commander James Wiggins "Red" Coe (13 June 1909 – 28 September 1943 (missing), 8 January 1946 (presumed dead) was an American submariner. A submarine ace, Coe commanded and during operations in the Pacific theatre of World War II. After a number of successful patrols, Coe and the Cisco failed to return from patrol in November 1943, and her captain and crew were presumed dead in 1946.

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List of aces of aces

Ace of aces is a title accorded to the top active ace within a branch of service in a nation's military in time of war. The title is most closely associated with fighter aces, though there are other types, such as tank aces and submarine aces.

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Malcolm Wanklyn

Lieutenant Commander Malcolm David Wanklyn VC, DSO & Two Bars (28 June 1911 – missing in action 14 April 1942) was a Second World War British Royal Navy submarine ace and one of the most successful submariners in the Western Allied navies.

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Panzer ace

"Panzer ace" ("tank ace") is a contemporary term used in English-speaking popular culture to describe highly decorated German tank ("Panzer") commanders and crews during World War II.

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Panzer Aces (book series)

Panzer Aces is an English-language book series by the German author Franz Kurowski.

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Propaganda

Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.

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SS Calabria (1922)

SS Calabria was a passenger and cargo steamship.

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Sydney Valpy Radley-Walters

Sydney Valpy Radley-Walters CMM, DSO, MC, CD, nicknamed "Rad" (January 11, 1920 – April 21, 2015), was a tank commander in the Canadian Army.

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The Blond Knight of Germany

The Blond Knight of Germany is a book by the American authors Trevor J. Constable and Raymond F. Toliver dedicated to the life and career of the German fighter pilot of World War II, Erich Hartmann.

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Trevor James Constable

Trevor James Constable (17 September 1925 − 31 March 2016) was an early UFO writer who believed that the UFO phenomenon was best explained by the presence of enormous amoeba-like animals inhabiting earth's atmosphere.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_(military)

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