Spitfire Ace of Aces

Johnnie Johnson is a character literally straight out of the pages of '' Boys Own''. By the end of the Second World War the RAF Spitfire pilot was a household name in Britain, feted by Churchill and Eisenhower. Although he missed the Battle of Britain, when slow- flying bombers were abundant and easy targets for fighters, by 1945 he had notched up 381/2 enemy ''kills'' - all fighters, which took ...