Phil Rasmussen
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"Philip M. Rasmussen" was an United States Army Air Corps/Army Air Corps second lieutenant#United States/second lieutenant assigned to the 46th Pursuit Squadron at Wheeler Field on the island of Oahu during the Attack on Pearl Harbor/Japanese attack on December 7, 1941. He was one of the few American pilots to get into the air that day.

Rasmussen was awarded a Silver Star for his actions. He flew many later combat missions, including a bombing mission over Japan that earned him an oak leaf cluster. He stayed in the military after the war and eventually retired from the United States Air Force as a lieutenant colonel in 1965. He died in 2005 of complications from cancer and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

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I definitely thought we bounced back.

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I don't think we lost, we just kind of ran out of time tonight. A couple more possessions and I think we could have had a chance. We were battling until the end of the game.

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It was a real physical game. They got us on the backboard. They found the area they were going to take advantage of us and really exploited it.

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