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Real-life ‘Top Gun’ honoured on the side of a building in Loughborough

A real-life ‘Top Gun’ has been honoured on the side of a building in Loughborough.

Air Vice Marshal James Edgar ‘Johnnie’ Johnson spitfire top gun and famous flying ace was born in Barrow-on-Soar in 1915.

He rose to the rank of Air Vice Marshall and became a legend for his heroic exploits during World War Two.

Loughborough's Ladybird Collective are behind the giant mural of the town’s most celebrated sons...

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Leicester's Ben Jackson Nick Hardy is from the Collective and John Weitzal is an archivist from Loughborough Schools Foundation

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