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Johnny's Spitfire
  • Johnny's Spitfire

Johnny's Spitfire

£180.00Price
This drawing depicts Spitfire Mk.IX MK392, 64 Sqn 127 (RCAF) Wing, RAF Serial: JE-J, France July 1944.
 
Air Vice Marshal James Edgar Johnson, CB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, DFC & Bar, nicknamed "Johnnie," was a renowned RAF pilot and flying ace who participated in the offensive sweeps over German-occupied Europe from 1941 to 1944. He was involved in heavy aerial fighting, participating in various operations such as the Dieppe Raid, Combined Bomber Offensive, Battle of Normandy, Operation Market Garden, and the Western Allied invasion of Germany. Johnson achieved 34 individual victories over enemy aircraft, including 14 Messerschmitt Bf 109s and 20 Focke-Wulf Fw 190s destroyed, making him the most successful RAF ace against the Fw 190 and the highest-scoring Western Allied fighter ace against the German Luftwaffe.

  • ‘Johnny's Spitfire’

    Pencil on Cartridge Paper

    2018

    Unframed

    29.7 x 21 cm (Paper Size)

    Certificate of Authenticity included.

     

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