MAIN MENU Home WWII Veterans Allied Leaders Axis Leaders   HOLOCAUST Camps Experiments Photos   NUREMBERG Main Trials Doctor Trials Einsatzgruppen   TIMELINE 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945   MISC. Music Actors Awards Trivia   CONTACT US E-Mail Guestbook

Leslie Howard In 1939, he played the character that was always to be associated with him - that of Ashley Wilkes, the honor-bound disillusioned intellectual southern gentleman in Gone With The Wind. But war clouds were gathering over England and Leslie devoted all his energy on behalf of the war effort. He directed films, he wrote articles and made radio broadcasts. He died June 1, 1943 when the KLM plane he was on was shot down by German fighter pilots over the Bay of Biscay.