On the northern side of Governors Complex North Loop, along the Pacific coastline.

The monument comprises a black marble stele mounted on a cross-shaped stone base alongside four concrete benches and a single flagpole. Plaque on top of stele commemorates RAIDR 21 aircrew members, and a plaque mounted on the front of the stele includes the poem High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr., a World War II Anglo-American Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot and war poet, who was killed in an accidental mid-air collision over England in 1941.

On 21 July 2008, a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52H Stratofortress crashed into the Pacific Ocean approximately 30 nautical miles (56 kilometers) northwest of Apra Harbor, Guam, after taking off from Andersen Air Force Base. The aircraft (60-0053), nicknamed Louisiana Fire and with the mission call sign of RAIDR 21, was about to participate in a flyover for the Liberation Day parade in Hagåtña. The bomber, assigned to the 20th Bomb Squadron at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, was with its crew on temporary duty at Andersen as part of a four-month rotation.

It crashed at 9:55 AM (local time), five minutes before they were scheduled to fly over the parade commemorating the day in 1944 that Guam was liberated from Japan. All six crew members aboard the aircraft were killed, and the aircraft was destroyed.

On 23 July 2008, the USAF announced that there were no survivors and that the rescue effort had turned to a recovery mission for still-missing members of the crew. Remains were never recovered for Co-Pilot Captain Dodson or Electronic Warfare Officer 1st Lieutenant Gerren. An investigation by the USAF determined that the crash was likely caused by an aircraft system malfunction. A cenotaph also remembers the fallen aircrew members at Arlington National Cemetery, Section 60, Site 8882.

Source of information: en.wikipedia.org, www.af.mil

On the above plaque text:

RAIDR 21

B-52H STRATOFORTRESS

TAIL NUMBER 60-0053

ON 21 JULY 2008 WHILE DEPLOYED TO ANDERSEN AFB, TO DETER POTENTIAL ADVERSARIES AND ASSURE ALLIES, THE CREW OF RAIDER 21 PERISHED IN A CRASH AT SEA.

THIS LANDMARK SERVES IN MEMORY OF THEIR DEDICATION AND SERVICE TO FREEDOM AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On the lower plaque text:

HIGH FLIGHT 

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth

And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth

of sun-split clouds, and done a hundred things

You have not dreamed of wheeled and soared and swung

High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,

I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung

My eager craft through footless halls of air...

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue

I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.

Where never lark, or even eagle flew

And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod

The high untrespassed sanctity of space,

Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."

John Gillespie Magee, Jr.