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SHE LED THE PARADE FROM SILK TO KHAKI! -- This girl who bolted a white-collar job to win her place in the air force...it's the amazing story of Amy and her Jim -- The Flying Mollisons.
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.
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Anna Neagle Robert Newton Edward Chapman Nora Swinburne Joan Kemp-Welch Brefni O'Rorke Charles Carson Martita Hunt William Hartnell Eliot Makeham David Horne Miles Malleson Aubrey Mallalieu Charles Victor Hay Petrie John Slater Percy Parsons Cyril Smith George Merritt Muriel George Ian Fleming Anthony Shaw MacDonald Parke Arthur Hambling Peter Gawthorne Ronald Shiner Margaret Halstan Charles Maxwell Frank Atkinson Anne Crawford Leslie Dwyer Bryan Herbert Ben Williams
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