WSamuel Adams was an officer in the United States Navy decorated for action in the Battle of Midway during World War II.
WLieutenant Colonel Ron Arad, was an Israeli Air Force weapon systems officer (WSO) who is officially classified as missing in action since October 1986. Arad was lost on a mission over Lebanon, captured by Shiite group Amal and was later handed over to the Hezbollah.
WSquadron Leader Peter Christy, SJ, was a PAF bomber pilot and weapon systems officer (WSO). A B-57 Canberra navigator, Squadron Leader Christy was officially declared "missing in action" since December 1971, but widely presumed dead by the Pakistan Defence Forces as of 2004.
WCaptain Lawrence Dickson (1920-1944) from Bronx, New York, was World War II pilot and a member of the famed group of World War II-era African-Americans known as the Tuskegee Airmen. Dickson flew 68 mission in World War II before he was forced to eject from his aircraft over Austria in 1944. Dickson was declared missing in action. On July 27, 2018, Dickson's remains were identified by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
WAir Marshal Sir Peter Roy Maxwell Drummond, was an Australian-born senior commander in the Royal Air Force (RAF). He rose from private soldier in World War I to air marshal in World War II. Drummond enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in 1914 and the following year saw service as a medical orderly during the Gallipoli Campaign. He joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1916 and became a fighter ace in the Middle Eastern theatre, where he was awarded the Military Cross and the Distinguished Service Order and Bar. Transferring to the RAF on its formation in 1918, he remained in the British armed forces for the rest of his life.
WJohn Charles Dundas, was a Royal Air Force fighter pilot and flying ace of the Second World War credited with 12 victories.
WVizefeldwebel Sebastian Festner (1894–1917) was an air ace of the Luftstreitkräfte during World War I, with 12 victories. He was only the second awardee of the Member's Cross of the House Order of Hohenzollern.
WNathan Bedford Forrest III was a brigadier general of the United States Army Air Forces, and a great-grandson of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest. He was killed in action in Germany during World War II. Forrest was the first American general to be killed in action during the war in Europe.
WGeorges Guynemer was the second highest-scoring French fighter ace with 54 victories during World War I, and a French national hero at the time of his death.
WMillard Fillmore Harmon Jr. was a lieutenant general in the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaign in World War II. He was presumed to have perished in February 1945 on a flight when the plane carrying him disappeared in transit. Harmon, Frank Maxwell Andrews, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. and Lesley J. McNair, all lieutenant generals at the time of their deaths, were the highest-ranking Americans to die in World War II.
WHeinrich Hoffmann was a German fighter ace in the Luftwaffe during World War II. Hoffmann was credited with 63 aerial victories in 261 combat missions and was the first non-commissioned officer and first posthumous Wehrmacht recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, the highest award in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was "ace-in-a-day" twice, shooting down five aircraft on a single day.
WJohn Louis "Jack" Jerstad was a United States Army Air Forces officer who was posthumously awarded the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor. He received the medal for his actions as a B-24 pilot during a raid on Ploieşti, Romania, in World War II.
WTheodore Ernst Kara was an American featherweight boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
WToshio Kuroiwa was a warrant officer and ace fighter pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the January 28 Incident and the Second Sino-Japanese War. During the January 28 Incident on 22 February 1932, while assigned to the aircraft carrier Kaga's fighter group, Kuroiwa participated in the IJN's first official shootdown of an enemy aircraft in combat. In the shootdown, Kuroiwa and two other fighters from his unit destroyed a Chinese fighter aircraft piloted by American contract Pilot {Reserve} Lt Robert M. Short.
WBrian John Edward "Sandy" Lane was a fighter pilot and flying ace of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. He was also an author.
WGünther Lützow was a German Luftwaffe aviator and fighter ace credited with 110 enemy aircraft shot down in over 300 combat missions. Apart from five victories during the Spanish Civil War, most of his claimed victories were over the Eastern Front in World War II. He also claimed 20 victories over the Western Front, including two victories—one of which was a four-engined bomber—flying the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter.
WErnest Russell Lyon was a flying officer in 234 Squadron of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. He was known as Russell. On 27 July 1944, Russell piloted a Supermarine Spitfire, flying with seven other Spitfires, on a mission over Lorient in southern Brittany. His Spitfire was hit by flak over the Lorient area and was seen to crash in flames near Ploemeur. Lyon was reported as missing in action and later he was reported as presumed dead.
WArthur Percival Foley Rhys-Davids, was a British flying ace of the First World War.
WLieutenant Colonel Boyd David "Buzz" Wagner was an American aviator and the first United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) fighter ace of World War II.
WBrigadier General Kenneth Newton Walker was a United States Army aviator and a United States Army Air Forces general who exerted a significant influence on the development of airpower doctrine. He posthumously received the Medal of Honor in World War II.
WHelmut Paul Emil Wick was a German flying ace of World War II. He was a wing commander in the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany, and the fourth recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, the nation's highest military decoration at the time.
WLeutnant Rudolf Friedrich Otto Windisch was a World War I fighter ace credited with 22 victories.