The confirmation came after recovery teams pulled the soldiers' M88 Hercules armored vehicle from a swamp Sunday night.
Maj. Gen. Curtis Taylor, commanding general of the 1st Armored Division, said it would be a “long and difficult recovery operation.”
U.S. and Lithuanian personnel continued the complicated recovery efforts Thursday of four U.S. soldiers missing in swampy terrain in Lithuania.
Mischa Johnson was last seen on July 31 at her home on Schofield Barracks, an Army installation on Oahu, when she was six months pregnant.
The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search for Seaman Bryan K. Lee “pending the development of new information,” the service said.
By Beth Sullivan
A crew member aboard the cutter Waesche has been reported “unaccounted for” while operating in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
By Beth Sullivan
Lt. Col. Donald Downing was piloting an F-4C Phantom II aircraft during a night mission when his plane disappeared in a fireball.
Mischa Johnson, who went missing on July 31, has still not been found.
U.S. Army Private William Calkins was captured by Japanese forces and died in a prisoner of war camp in the Philippines in 1942 at the age of 20.
Samuel Wanjiru, 26, was said to have been visiting the island with his family.
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