Air Commodore William Edward George Mann CB, CBE, DFC (20 April 1899 – 4 May 1966) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force and a flying ace of the First World War credited with thirteen confirmed aerial victories.

Mann began his military career as a Sopwith Camel pilot in the Royal Naval Air Service in 1917.

His final tally was six German planes destroyed (including two shared victories), and seven more driven down out of control.

[1][3] Mann spent a period of unemployment for some months as the new Royal Air Force downsized and reorganized.

He attended the RAF Staff College, Andover, beginning the course on 21 January 1936, before shipping out to the Middle East.