Wing Leader Author:Group Captain J. E. Johnson Library of Congress Card # 57-7712. Ballantine War Books Series, first printing. — Johnnie Johnson joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1939 as a week-en flyer and finished the war as the top-scoring Allied fighter with 38 confirmed victories. Wing Leader is his account of the outnumbered fighter pilots who won the Battle of Britain, o... more »f the bitter fighting over Dieppe and 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.« less