Spitfire Ace of Aces: The Album: The Photographs of Johnnie Johnson
By Dilip Sarkar
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Dilip Sarkar
A prolific author, DILIP SARKAR has been obsessed with the Second World War for a lifetime. An MBE for ‘services to aviation history’, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, unsurprisingly, for a retired police detective with a First in Modern History, his work has always been evidence-based - often challenging long-accepted myths. Firmly focussed on the ‘human’ experience of war, his many previous works include the authorized biographies of Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader and Air Vice-Marshal ‘Johnnie’ Johnson, the best-selling Spitfire Manual and The Few. Dilip has presented at such prestigious venues as Oxford University, the Imperial War and RAF Museums, and National Memorial Arboretum; he works on TV documentaries, both on and off screen.
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Spitfire Ace of Aces - Dilip Sarkar
Introduction
This book supplements the detailed information in three of my previous works on this, the greatest Spitfire pilot of them all, Johnnie Johnson – details of which can be found in the Bibliography – in which Johnnie’s own books, Wing Leader and Full Circle, are also listed along with certain titles he co-authored with the late Wing Commander Laddie Lucas. They are essential reading for anyone wanting to get inside the character of this giant of a man.
The majority of the photographs presented here are from either Johnnie’s personal album or the Johnson family, to whom I am indebted, or my own archive. Every picture, as they say, tells its own story, so, without further ado…. To the photographs of the ‘Spitfire Ace of Aces’!
Dilip Sarkar MBE FRHistS
Alfred Edgar Johnson, Johnnie’s father, pictured whilst a sergeant in the Leicestershire Constabulary.
Johnnie with his mother, Beatrice.
Johnnie’s uncle, Charles Rossell, who won an MC in the Great War and inspired his eldest nephew with tales of derringdo. Recognising potential, Charles Rossell paid for Johnnie’s education at Loughborough Grammar School.