On May 16, 1944, two young British naval officers launched their two F-4 Corsairs from Brunswick Naval Air Station on a training mission over Sebago Lake. This­—and perhaps only this—part of the legend is undisputed.

By Colin W. Sargent

The bodies of the pilots who went down with their planes 50 fathoms below the surface of Sebago have never been recovered. But whether they remain in their aircraft, now deemed watery ‘graves,’ is murky. 

CBS News reported in 1999 that the British government and U. S. courts ruled the planes are war graves and must not be disturbed.

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