Local WW II Vet shares his story

Lt.Col. (retired) Dick Waring shares an amusing story from one of his combat missions over Germany as a B-17 navigator during WWII with Col. Allan Swartzmiller (left) 914th Airlift Wing Commander and Col. Bret Larson, 914th Airlift Wing Vice Commander at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, NY on August 4, 2012. Waring was presented with a shadow box of his rank and medals in appreciation for telling his story for the Air Force Pioneers in Blue Program, to be seen in the near future on the internet. (U.S. Air Force photo by Peter Borys)

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