Maverick and Ice Man up agaist all those Migs, or how about Luke Skywalker on the last run down the trench of the death star?
Seriously though, unpatriotic though it may sound, some of the most inspiring tales I have read is those of the Argentinian A4 pilots during the 1982 war. The chap who was shot up in Falkland Sound, had his tanks breached, and the was towed all the way back to the land of corned beef by a C130 tanker.
pretty remarkable stuff