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'Ashley Wilkes' Was a Spy

Howard's plane shot down after delivering message to Franco

By Elizabeth Wolff,  Newser User

Posted Oct 6, 2008 11:31 AM CDT

(Newser) – Best remembered as one of Scarlett O'Hara’s love interests in Gone with the Wind, actor Leslie Howard was also a British secret agent who died returning from a clandestine war mission on behalf of Winston Churchill, the Guardian reports. The Luftwaffe shot down Howard's...   Read full story »

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