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The bodies of two B-52 crew members have been recovered from the site of a crash in Guam, Barksdale Air Force Base said this afternoon.
The fates of four others on board the bomber were not known. A search of the Pacific Ocean was continuing today.
The identity of one of the dead has been determined but is being withheld pending notification of relatives, Barksdale said in a statement.
The B-52 was part of a group of Barksdale planes and crews that are rotated in and out of Guam as part of the United States' continuous bomber presence in the Pacific. It was en route to fly over a parade on Guam when it went down Sunday evening, Shreveport time.
It was not carrying weapons, the Air Force said.
Searchers, who worked through the night, located a large area of floating debris and a sheen of oil at the Pacific Ocean crash site, authorities said today.
One of those aboard was Col. George Martin, an Air Force doctor who was stationed in Guam, his family said today.
The Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard, Drug Enforcement Agency and authorities on Guam have been searching for crew members.
"There's nobody that I have talked to yet that has any thought but to keep looking and hoping they'll still be able to find somebody," Robert Brooks, a search and rescue specialist with the Coast Guard, said.
The names of the crew members have not been disclosed by the Air Force.
Family and friends wanting information about the situation can call 318-456-8400, Barksdale said.
The crash occurred Sunday night, Shreveport time, about 30 miles northwest of Apra Harbor, the Air Force said.
The last crash of a B-52 was 1994 when a bomber practicing for an air show crashed in Washington state, killing four crew members.
The B-52 is the second bomber to crash this year on Guam, a U.S. territory located nearly 4,000 miles southwest of Hawaii. In February, a B-2 crashed shortly after takeoff. Both pilots ejected safely.
The Liberation Day Parade that was scheduled for a B-52 flyover, marks the day when the U.S. military arrived on Guam to retake control of the island from Japan during World War II.
The Air Force said a board of officers will investigate the B-52 crash.
The Associated Press and CNN contributed to this report
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