Wing Leader Author:Group Captain J. E. Johnson Johnnie Johnson joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve in 1939 as a week-end flier, and finished the war as the top-scoring Allied fighter pilot with 38 confirmed victories. Except for 6 months rest, he flew with the fighter squadrons until V. E. Day, earning ten major decorations including the British DSO and DFC, the French Croix de Guerre, and the... more » DFC and Legion of Merit from the US.« less