100-Year-Old WWII Naval Aviator Captain Royce Williams Inducted Into Pentagon's Hall of Heroes
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth inducted 100-year-old Captain Royce Williams — a naval aviator who received the Congressional Medal of Honor during President Trump's State of the Union address — into the Pentagon's Hall of Heroes. Williams's Medal of Honor, presented Tuesday night during the address, recognized a classified Korean War dogfight in which he single-handedly engaged seven Soviet MiG-15 fighters, downing four before crash-landing his shot-up F9F Panther on a carrier deck. The Navy covered up the encounter for decades because it involved direct combat with Soviet pilots. Williams waited over 70 years for recognition of what historians call one of the greatest individual aerial combat feats in American history.
Read Full Story at Gateway PunditGreater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends.
— John 15:13
Captain Williams risked everything in defense of his country and his fellow servicemen. His seven decades of quiet faithfulness — waiting without recognition — speak to a character that values duty over glory.