Aviators killed by being shot down

German fighter pilot (1892-1918)

French aviator

Italian Marshal of the Air Force and minister (1896–1940)

Soviet flying ace

French racing cyclist (1887–1917)

German flying ace (1890–1916)

Soviet fighter pilot (1916-1943)

Heroine of the Soviet Union and WWII bomber navigator (1920-1944)

Italian flying ace (1888-1918)

French flying ace (1889–1915)

German officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1917–1945)

Soviet Air Force navigator, Heroine of the Soviet Union (1921–1944)

Russian aviator and Hero of the Soviet Union (1920–1944)

diver (1907–1943)

German World War II Luftwaffe general and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (1889–1941)

pilot for the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service during World War II (1920–1944)

United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient (1914–1943)

American bobsledder and pilot (1911-1940)

German officer and fighter pilot in World War II

Soviet aviator (1913–1944)

German flying ace (1897–1917)

German officer and fighter pilot during World War II

German officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1913–1944)

German aviation leader (1876–1918)

Russian major general who was the commander of the military unit 23326 of the Western Military District and the commander of the Baltimor airbase near Voronezh

United States Army Air Force Captain, Major League Baseball player, one of two MLB players killed in World War II (1917-1944)

Peruvian air force general (1914-1941)

British World War I flying ace (1887-1918)

German officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1909–1944)

Ukrainian fighter pilot and colonel

German officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1913–1944)

Soviet aviator (1907-1941)

German World War I flying ace (1896–1917)

USAF pilot, the only person killed by enemy fire during the Cuban Missile Crisis (1927-1962)

Soviet aviator (1912–1943)

French aviator (1903–1940)

United States Army officer (1920–1945)

German flying ace (1891-1918)

German flying ace (1894–1918)

German officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1917–1943)

Recipient of Param Vir Chakra (1943-1971)

Japanese Naval aviation officer (1918–1942)

French racing driver (1884–1916)

Australian fighter ace of World War I (1891–1918)

United States Navy officer (1926–1950)

Italian flying ace (1917-1943)

German female aviator and test pilot in German Luftwaffe dive bombers during World War II

German fighter ace and Knight's Cross recipient (1918–1944)

British World War I fighter pilot, recipient of the Victoria Cross. (1890–1916)

German flying ace (1895–1917)

Australian soldier, aviator and flying ace of the First World War

recipient of the Navy Cross (1903–1942)

Romanian flying ace (1912-1944)

Dutch mathematician (1910–1944)

German officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1917–1942)

Ukrainian fighter pilot (1993–2022)

French-American fighter pilot

German World War II fighter pilot (1917–1944)

South African born World War II Flying ace for the RAF. Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross & bar. (1914–1941)

son of Theodore Roosevelt (1897–1918)