The review of recent press brought the following articles.
- Spitfire pilot that strafed Rommel dead
Charley Fox, Canadian Spitfire Pilot who was credited with strafing German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s car at a critical moment during the Allied invasion of Normandy, died in a car accident on October 18 in Ontario, Canada.
[Winnipeg Sun]See also the press release from the Canadian Air Force here and Charley’s obituary in the National Post.
- Appeal over lost Eglinton Spitfire
Aviation archaeologists on a quest to find a Spitfire that crashed near Eglinton, Northern Ireland, during World War II.
[Derry Today] - Another two-seater Spitfire returns to the sky… and it’s for sale
SM520, a Spitfire Mk. IX discovered in a Cape Town scrap yard in the 1970s and brought home to the UK took to the air again on October 17.
[Aero-News Network]

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