Williams never saw combat in WWII, he was in San Francisco awaiting transport to Hawaii on VJ Day and was in Honolulu when he got his orders sending him home. He flew 39 missions in Korea and was sent home due to health problems and he wasn't an ace in Korea either. Williams had a commendable record of distinguished service but there's no reason to embellish it. In fact Williams wrote this about his four months in Korea: “I was no hero. There were maybe seventy-five pilots in our two squadrons and 99 percent of them did a better job than I did.”