karaokelover

iam looking for the title of a movie iam sure that vincent edwards and richard basehart was in it it is about . richard basehart plays this major who in ww2 was a navigator on the plane and they get hit and are trying to make it back he gives them a direction and bails out the plane lands in the desert they thought they were over water they all die the plane is discovered about 20yrs later and the ghost of his men are trying to get the search people to find them ricard basehart is the only one who can see them and they try to get him to take the people to where they are the one guy is under the tail of the plane he went to get his baseball or something and the tail of the plane falls on him it was made in the late 70's i think

could it be bell book and candle with kim novack and jimmy stewart ?