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Parts of H-Bombs Found; Search Goes On Pentagon says that while there’s no hope any of four lost hydrogen bombs will be found intact, the search will be pressed for months if necessary! in frigid Greenland. * Serial numbers on weapons fragments found at the crash site correspond with Strategic Air Command listings- of serial numbers on various, components on all four bombs, the Pentagon those bombs were tom apart when the plane came down andj burned," an Air Force colonel) said at the crash site on the ice of North Star Bay, 7Va miles from Thule Air Base on Green Searchers have found the four i parachutes that were a vital part of the bombs’ delivery sys tems. A Pentagon ■ nuclear ex pert, serving as dart- of. the search team, acknowledged the chutes are’ sealed within the "You can draw your own con elusions from the fact; the chutes were found separate from anything else,’! one source Their purpose is to slow the descent of the weapons in an at tack so the plane that drops them will have*1 time to get out of the area before they explode. Maj Gen; Richard 0. Hunziker, director of the 24-hour-a-day recovery effort, said the four chutes were found in a compact area near the dark burn marks On the ice where the B52.bomb-l er crashed a week ago. r Officers at the scene indicated the search for more fragments may go on. until. the ' summer breakup of the bay ice—about! Pefense officials at the crash' scene and in Washington kept a, tfght'security lid jon: the nature, struction details of the bombs all believed to be in the 1.1 me-1 ga ton. range. . Several search officers said in private that one.; of their pri-i mark, which governs Green land, that, everything, possible is, and to. eliminate, ,any possibility it is impossible for the devices to detonate;. They say radiation found at the site'.so far, has, been, ture of the Arctic weather and Some 1,500 pounds of horse meat have' been shipped: in to feed the Eskimo sled dogs that carry the searchers from the air base to the crash scene. Electri cal generators-are being hauled to the site to provide light in the nearly / constant polar, darkness. ciated with the bomb search ex pressed; fearoafaout was .the on call a Phase-3—a severe, polar storm in. which, blowing snow re duces visibility to zero. All. outdoor activities stop ex cept for. emergency rescue mis sions. Prolonged exposure dur ing a Phase-3, at temperatures So or more degrees below zero, ; The barracks rooms at Thule those confined indoors during the Arctic storms, which some At Jet Crash Site NORTH STAB BAY, Green land (UPI)—A few, bits of radioactive debris and a large blackened sheet of ice were all had found parts oi one of the nuclear bombs. The teams also found small pieces of radioac Officials had earlier reportedu j j----- uuu ocuiitn- xepurusu crashed .and exploded ; with ,a that one of the four hydrogen cargo of hydrogen bombs. ; A planeload of Danish and American reporters c were flown Friday to the crash site of the North Star Bay - last . Sunday American and Danish recove ry teams meticulously searched and dug into the massive ice Ibo-king' for pieces of ! the plane carried. Officials; believed they may have, sighted one of, the I were not certain. They searched in tempera Maj. Gen. Richard Huntziker. chief of the recovery operations, said Friday, the, search,, teams bombs, .believed to be 1.1 on impact of the plane, releasing radioactivity. Portions of the crash area were contaminated with radiation. Informed sources said Satur-: day the co-pilot of the bomber apparently sacrificed his life, to put out a fire which broke out in the cabin only minutes before the plane crashed. Capt. Leonard Svitenko, of West- Springfield, Mass., was the only fatality among the crew of the B52. The sources;, said, ?Svitenko apparently left his; co-pilot’s seat to secure the plane when thg fire .broke but and was not in his ejection seat when Capt. John M. Hang issued the order