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PHOTOS: Land of 10,000 Stories: 1952 Plane Crash
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Shirley Ponikvar and her 7-year-old daughter Janie leave Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska after the death of Shirley's husband
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In this June 10, 2015 file photo, U.S. Marines Capt. David Gooch, with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, walks past an aircraft wheel assembly resting on the ice surface of Colony Glacier in Alaska.
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Capt. John Ponikvar
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Photo of Mt. Gannett from crash investigation. Circle indicates point of impact.
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Janie Fowler reminiscing about her father, John Ponikvar, with her husband Billy.
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Janie Fowler is handed her father's funeral flag.
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Air Force honor guard escorts the remains of Capt. John Ponikvar.
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Memorial marker for John Ponikvar at Calvary Cemetery in Chisholm, Minnesota.
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Captain John Ponikvar and his wife, Shirley.
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Photo of Capt. John Ponikvar in his Air Force dress uniform.
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Photo of John Ponikvar taken in front of his boyhood home in Chisholm, Minnesota.
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Shirley Ponikvar and her 7-year-old daughter Janie leave Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska after the death of Shirley's husband
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