List of World War I aviators who shot down two observation balloons

Balloon busters were military pilots known for destroying enemy observation balloons.

World War I aviators who shot down two observation balloons

The following list is accumulative and incomplete because it is a work in progress. It is compiled as biographies of flying aces are written, and still lacks some balloon busters.

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Name	Origin	Balloon victories	Aircraft victories	Total
Edgar O. Amm	South African	2	5	7[1]
Maurice Arnoux	French	2	3	5[2]
Horace Barton	South African	2	17	19[3]
John Courade Bateman	English	2	5	7[3]
Douglas John Bell	South African	2	17	19[4]
Armond J. Berthelot	French	2	9	11[5]
William Avery Bishop	Canadian	2	70	72[6]
Konrad Brendle	German	2	7	9[7]
Jean Casale	French	2	11	13[8]
William Gordon Claxton	Canadian	2	35	37[9]
Edwin Cole	English	2	6	8[10]
James Connelly	American	2	5	7[11]
Charles Cudemore	English	2	13	15[12]
Gilbert de Guingand	French	2	6	8[13]
Armand de Turenne	French	2	13	15[14]
Pierre Dufaur de Gavardie	French	2	4	6[15]
Eduard Ritter von Dostler	German	2	24	26[16]
Otto Fitzner	German	2	7	9[17]
Willi Gabriel	German	2	9	11[18]
Karl Gallwitz	German	2	8	10[19]
George Gates	English	2	7	9[20]
Frederick Stanley Gordon	New Zealander	2	7	9[21]
Franz Gräser	Austro-Hungarian	2	16	18[22]
Fernand Guyou	French	2	10	12[23]
Erich Hahn	German	2	4	6[24]
Georges Halberger	French	2	3	5[25]
Lloyd Hamilton	American	2	8	10[26]
Thomas Sinclair Harrison	South African	2	20	22[27]
Robert Heibert	German	2	11	13[28]
Albert Hets	German	2	4	6[29]
Ernest Charles Hoy	Canadian	2	11	13[30]
Frederick Hunt	English	2	7	9[31]
Albert Leslie Jones	English	2	5	7[32]
Erich Just	German	2	4	6[33]
Arthur Korff	German	2	6	8[34]
James Latta	English	2	3	5[35]
Pierre Leroy de Boiseaumarie	French	2	3	5[36]
Frederick Luff	American	2	3	5[37]
John Mackereth	English	2	5	7[38]
Malcolm Plaw MacLeod	Canadian	2	5	7[39]
Rudolf Matthaei	German	2	8	10[40]
Maurice Mealing	English	2	12	14[41]
Zenos Miller	American	2	3	5[42]
Hans Karl Müller	German	2	7	9[43]
Edmund Nathanael	German	2	13	15[44]
Otto Parschau	German	2	6	8[45]
Andre Petit-Delchet	French	2	3	5[46]
Croye Pithey	South African	2	8	10[47]
Arthur Rahn	German	2	4	6[48]
Hervey Rhodes	English	2	8	10[47]
Cyril Ridley	English	2	9	11[49]
Charles G. Ross	South African	2	18	20[50]
Hugh Saunders	South African	2	13	15[51]
Gustav Schneidewind	German	2	5	7[52]
Wilhelm Schwartz	German	2	6	8[53]
Kurt Schönfelder	German	2	11	13[54]
Sumner Sewall	American	2	5	7[55]
Langley Smith	Canadian	2	6	8[56]
Werner Steinhauser	German	2	8	10[57]
Francis S. Symondson	English	2	11	13[58]
Mathieu Tenant de la Tour	French	2	7	9[59]
Renatus Theiller	German	2	10	12[60]
Bernhard Ultsch	German	2	10	12[61]
Gilbert J. Uteau	French	2	3	5[62]
Clive W. Warman	American	2	10	12[63]
Paul Wenzl	Germany	2	8	10[64]

See also

• Lists of World War I flying aces
• List of World War I aviators who shot down four observation balloons
• List of World War I aviators who shot down three observation balloons
• List of World War I aviators who shot down one observation balloon
• Balloon buster

Endnotes

1. Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), pp. 50–51.
2. Franks & Bailey (1992), p. 113.
3. Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), p. 66.
4. Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), pp. 71–71.
5. Franks & Bailey (1992), p. 119.
6. Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), pp. 77–78.
7. Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), p. 85.
8. Franks & Bailey (1992), pp. 128–129.
9. Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), pp. 105–106.
10. Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), p. 113.
11. Franks & Bailey (1992), p. 32.
12. Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), p. 127.
13. Franks & Bailey (1992), pp. 141–142.
14. Franks & Bailey (1992), pp. 148–149.
15. Franks & Bailey (1992), pp. 156–157.
16. Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), p. 102.
17. Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), p. 107.
18. Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), pp. 112–113.
19. Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), p. 113.
20. Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), p. 164.
21. Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), p. 172.
22. Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 180–181.
23. Franks & Bailey (1992), p. 172.
24. Franks & Bailey (1992), pp. 122–123.
25. Franks & Bailey (1992), pp. 173–174.
26. Franks & Bailey (1992), pp. 41–42.
27. Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), pp. 195–186.
28. Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), p. 125.
29. Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), p. 129.
30. Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), p. 202.
31. Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), p. 204.
32. Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), p. 215.
33. Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), pp. 139–140.
34. Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), p. 149.
35. Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), p. 233.
36. Franks & Bailey (1992), p. 185.
37. Franks & Bailey (1992), p. 57.
38. Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), pp. 248–249.
39. Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), p. 251.
40. Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), p. 163.
41. Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), p. 278.
42. Franks & Bailey (1992), p. 61.
43. Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), p. 169.
44. Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), pp. 171-172.
45. Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), p. 179.
46. Franks & Bailey (1992), p. 205.
47. Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), pp. 305–306.
48. Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), pp. 184–185.
49. Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), pp. 320–321.
50. Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), p. 326.
51. Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), p. 332.
52. Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), p. 204.
53. Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), p. 208.
54. Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), pp. 205–206.
55. Franks & Bailey (1992), pp. 70–71.
56. Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), p. 343.
57. Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), p. 218.
58. Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), pp. 356–357.
59. Franks & Bailey (1992), p. 220–221.
60. Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), p. 214.
61. Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), pp. 221–222.
62. Franks & Bailey (1992), p. 222.
63. Franks & Bailey (1992), pp. 79–80.
64. Franks, Bailey & Guest (1993), p. 228.

References

• Franks, Norman; Bailey, Frank & Guest, Russell F. (1993). Above the Lines: The Aces and Fighter Units of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps 1914–1918. London, UK: Grub Street. ISBN 978-0-948817-73-1.
• Franks, Norman & Dempsey, Harry (2001). American Aces of World War I. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84176-375-0.
• Franks, Norman & Bailey, Frank (1992). Over the Front: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the United States and French Air Services, 1914-1918. London, UK: Grub Street. ISBN 978-0-948817-54-0.
• Franks, Norman; Guest, Russell F. & Alegi, Gregory (1997). Above the War Fronts: The British Two-seater Bomber Pilot and Observer Aces, the British Two-seater Fighter Observer Aces, and the Belgian, Italian, Austro-Hungarian and Russian Fighter Aces, 1914–1918. London, UK: Grub Street. ISBN 978-1-898697-56-5.
• Guttman, Jon & Dempsey, Harry (2005). Balloon-Busting Aces of World War I. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84176-877-9.
• Shores, Christopher F.; Franks, Norman & Guest, Russell F. (1990). Above the Trenches: a Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915–1920. London, UK: Grub Street. ISBN 978-0-948817-19-9.

External links

• "Balloon-Busters of World War I". The Aerodrome. 2016.