 Rogers recruits Barnes , Dum Dum Dugan , Gabe Jones , Jim Morita , James Montgomery <unk> , and Jacques Dernier to attack other known Hydra bases . Stark outfits Rogers with advanced equipment , most notably a circular shield made of vibranium , a rare , nearly indestructible metal . Rogers and his team sabotage various Hydra operations . The team later assaults a train carrying Zola . Rogers and Jones succeed in capturing Zola , but Barnes falls from the train to his assumed death . Using information extracted from Zola , the final Hydra stronghold is located , and Rogers leads an attack to stop Schmidt from using weapons of mass destruction on major cities around the world . Rogers climbs aboard Schmidt 's aircraft as it takes off , and during the subsequent fight the Tesseract 's container is damaged . Schmidt physically handles the Tesseract , causing him to dissolve in a bright light . The Tesseract burns through the plane and is lost in the ocean . Seeing no way to land the plane without the risk of detonating its weapons , Rogers crashes it in the Arctic . Stark later recovers the Tesseract from the ocean floor but is unable to locate Rogers or the aircraft , presuming him dead . 
