[SkyBuffalo]

My favorite is still : Lt. Philip Rasmussen, Wheeler Field, ffice:smarttags" />lace>Oahulace>, December 7, 1941

Rasmussen, still in his Pajamas, jumped into a P-36 Hawk after a group of Aichi "Vals" decimated all the new P-40 Warhawks at Wheeler Field. Phillip, along with several others, jumped into the Hawks that had been missed and went after the Japs. Rasmussen shot up a "Val", then got jumped by a pair of Mistubishi Zeros. He got badly shot up but managed to escape by dodging into a cloud. He somehow got his battered P-36 Hawk back to Wheeler Field and barely made a landing. The flight crew later counted 500 holes in Rasmussen's poor ol' P-36! And he had landed it safely. Rasmussen had jumped out of his plane and asked for another one to go up again, but no more were available.

That's a lot of luck and hutzpah to have your first combat in yer PJs!