I almost ended up in the same situation as one of the above two users, I was playing a dynamic campaign solo on W. Island on the Japanese side, it was the most intense aerial fighting I get to witness myself, in a nimble green Zero-looking plane on one mission I was doing some patrolling, enjoyed a bit of peace for a good 10 minutes with my crew until I ran head-on into a small group of fearless F4F-3's. My squadron was the only reinforcing unit and had to resort to kamikazing a couple of them just to proceed to the next checkpoint of the run. At about three-quarters of the way, some helpful backup came out of nowhere and joins in unison formation, almost as if about to crash into one another.
By the time I almost approached the final checkpoint out at sea, another group of F4F-3's came slightly left ahead and all of my crew along with the friendlies rushed together just as a real-life storm approaches, forcing me to hurry up with the mission and hope not to lose whatever progression after having gone through half a dozen missions. Luckily, I had a sweatband on my forehead to absorb most of the tension, but at the end of the campaign, I was already getting tired and perhaps won after some more death-defying missions against the Allies team. During the latter half of the second wave, my crews' water pressure has hit its limit, meaning we have to slow to a deadly dance of attrition with around two F4F-3's that just refuse to die, sometimes baiting us into their sector only to have us turn around to deal with the other one and thus they'll turn around and resume their pursuit, albeit a little slower because of critical fuel reserves spent from minutes of flying around in unpredictable circles, the battle even took me right into the island where I could got shot at easily by Allied ships and had to turn back, keeping at least a 10-15 km distance so that they can't fire.
At the very end, I took the whole island and all other sectors surrounding it, even though all the other numbers still said I'm at a disadvantage, the sector count is all that mattered to me. Glad I didn't declare a sick day, thanks to that sweatband.
