Without further delay, here’s a review of the recent press:

• Not entirely a Spitfire article, but interesting nonetheless. What it was REALLY like for The Dambusters in the most audacious bombing raid of World War II is the subject of the extensive article in Daily Mail. A set of highly personal recollections (most of them quoted from from the book Dambusters: A Landmark Oral History edited by Max Arthur), brings the history of No. 617 Squadron so much closer.
  [Daily Mail]
• Mighty Spitfire monument gets mixed reaction. Remember the plans for a Spitfire Memorial in Southampton? The recent proposal is a giant Spit in flying attitude beating the Southampton’s waterfront. If this does get the go ahead, I wish they’d better get the wing shape right…
  [Daily Echo]
• Family unveil roundabout tribute to city Spitfire hero. As mentioned here previously, the new roundabout in Larmor-Plage, Brittany, was recently named after the young Edinburgh Spitfire pilot Russell Lyon. Lyon, flying with No. 234 Squadron, was hit by anti-aircraft fire and killed over Larmor-Plage. His remains were discovered only last year.
  [The Scotsman]
• And lastly, more about the Canadian Spitfire pilot Charley Fox, who died on October 18 in a car accident in southern Ontario, 88 years old. His story is told in this obituary by CBCNews.
  [cbc.ca]