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

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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... BBC Radio Leicester's Ben Jackson Nick Hardy is from the Collective and John Weitzal is an archivist from Loughborough Schools Foundation