Johnson, Johnnie

Johnson, Johnnie
▪ 2002
Air Vice-Marshall James Edgar Johnson 
      British pilot (b. March 9, 1915, Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire, Eng.—d. Jan. 30, 2001, Buxton, Derbyshire, Eng.), was the most successful Allied fighter pilot in World War II Europe, flying more than 1,000 missions in his single-engine Spitfire and shooting down 38 German planes. Johnson later flew fighter-bomber missions in the Korean War as an exchange officer with the U.S. Air Force and served as the Royal Air Force commander in the Middle East in the 1960s.

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