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Maine Navy veteran trying to save Cold War-era military plane amid development

An old, twin-engine P2-Neptune airplane has sat beside the access road to the former Brunswick Naval Air Station since 1970. Out of time and out of place, the corroding Cold War-era relic has stayed put for more than 50 years while the world changed around it.

Maine-built Thresher submarine tragedy still recalled in song 60 years later

The Kittery-built submarine USS Thresher sent her final message just after 9 a.m. on April 10, 1963. The audio was garbled but it was clear she was in trouble. Shortly thereafter, the captain of another Navy submarine, submerged nearby, heard the eerie sounds of the Thresher collapsing under ocean pressure.

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