Wing Leader

Johnnie Johnson: Wing Leader

Johnnie Johnson joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1939 as a week-end flier, and finished the war as the top-scoring Allied fighter pilot with thirty-eight confirmed victories. Except for six months rest, he flew with the fighter squadrons until V.E. Day, earning ten major decorations. Wing Leader is his account of the outnumbered fighter pilots who won the Battle of Britain, of the bitter fighting over Dieppe, and of the final battles across the skies of France and over the Rhine when, as a group captain, he commanded a British wing of the latest and most powerful Spitfires.

Johnson, J. 1957. Wing Leader. New York, NY: Ballantine Books. Library of Congress Catalog Card 57-7712

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