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"ref": "1918 June 16, The New York Times",
"text": "Brookline Man Supplants Baylies as the American Ace of Aces if His Record Stands.",
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"ref": "1940 July 13, Los Angeles Times",
"text": "the U-boat commander who drowned them was Hitler's subsea ace of aces",
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"ref": "1944 April 14, The New York Times",
"text": "Bong Downs 27th Japanese Plane And Becomes U. S. 'Ace Of Aces'",
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"ref": "1954 September 6, Time",
"text": "Top ace of aces was Captain Joseph C. McConnell Jr. of Apple Valley, Calif., who posted the unequaled high score for Korea",
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"ref": "1968 March 4, Los Angeles Times",
"text": "Yet virtually larger than life in the eyes of his contemporaries, the \"scourge of the skies,\" the \"ace of aces,\"",
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"ref": "2001, Roman Johann Jarymowycz, Tank Tactics: From Normandy to Lorraine",
"text": "The ace of aces was dead.",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "ace with the greatest number of kills",
"word": "ässien ässä"
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"sense": "ace with the greatest number of kills",
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"sense": "ace with the greatest number of kills",
"word": "As der Asse"
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"sense": "ace with the greatest number of kills",
"word": "asso di assi"
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"sense": "ace with the greatest number of kills",
"word": "найкра́щий ас"
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"word": "ace of aces"
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