deaths
April 30, 2005
Phil Rasmussen, American lieutenant and pilot (born 1918)
Phil Rasmussen
Philip M. Rasmussen was a United States Army Air Forces second lieutenant assigned to the 46th Pursuit Squadron at Wheeler Field on the island of Oahu during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He was one of the few American pilots to get into the air that day.