PA39 - i take my hat off to you navigating across the pacific in those days, i shouldnt imagine there were too many navaids out there then?
I heard a tale of a WWI aviator that was doing night circuits with the aid of a torch to illuminate the instruments. He went into cloud and didn't realise anything was wrong until he popped out and looked over the side to get his bearings and saw nothing but black. Confused he looked ahead and saw lights above him. He'd managed to roll over without realising. He recovered and landed. I was amazed though at how non chalant he was about this though!