Gone in the Wind

TODAY 1943, a civilian flight (KLM Royal Dutch Airlines/BOAC Flight 777) from Lisbon to Bristol, England was shot down over the Bay of Biscay by a German Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 88, killing all seventeen aboard.  One of the passengers was beloved English actor, Leslie Howard, famous for portraying Ashley Wilkes in 1939's Gone With the Wind.   Whether the Germans particularly targeted Howard remains the subject of considerable debate.  Throughout the war, Lisbon was the hotbed of spies and the