Silver salver gift to ‘Johnnie’ Johnson
Cheffins’ auction in Cambridge on August 26 includes a silver presentation salver given to Air Vice Marshal James Edgar ‘Johnnie’ Johnson (1915-2001), the highest-scoring Western Allied pilot against the Luftwaffe and the RAF’s officially recognised top-scoring fighter pilot of the Second World War.
The salver, 14½in (37cm) in diameter, 40ozt, was gifted to Johnson on his retirement in 1962 and h…