The thrilling story of the topscoring Allied fighter pilot of the 2nd World War Johnnie Johnson, who served with Fighter Command squadrons throughout the war, scoring his 38th and final victory in September 1944. From the moment the author joins his first operational Spitfire squadron in August 1940, the reader is taken on an epic journey through the great aerial fighter actions of the war including the Battle of Britain, sweeps across the Channel and over France, Dieppe and Normandy: and finally, operations across the Rhine and into Germany itself.