Korean War fighter pilot and Escondido resident Royce Williams will be awarded the Medal of Honor, it was announced Wednesday. Williams, now 100 years old and a retired Navy captain, will be recognized for facing off against seven Soviet MiG fighter jets in 1952, shooting four of them down in the process and narrowly surviving amid extensive enemy gunfire to his jet. When the mission was over, they counted 263 bullet holes in his plane. 

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