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Ben Hovland

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Conversations with his mom led MPR News photojournalist Ben Hovland to the family story of Richard Rossman, a mischievous Minneapolis kid who learned to fly, and a journey to Austria to see where he died piloting the Powder Ann on a freezing December night in 1943.

High on an Austrian mountain, a Minnesotan finds pieces of his family’s past in a WWII bomber wreck

A person holds a framed black and white portrait

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A town with a river lies in a deep valley

A black and wine photo of 10 men standing in front of a plane

Courtesy of Ruth Hovland

A person stands in a cemetery in a photo in an album

Rusty debris sits nestled on a mountainside

A man stands outside a grey concrete building

Two people crouch down above a display of small American flags

Five small loaf cakes and happy birthday candles

Four people hold tiny cups as they say a toast

A woman hangs a large American flag from a wooden deck

High on an Austrian mountain, a Minnesotan finds pieces of his family’s past in a WWII bomber wreck

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