. >> reporter: dick cole was the copilot of the lead plane and the last survivor of the 80 men who struckrica was still reeling from the attack on pearl harbor. after dropping their bombs on dokyo, cole and his crew bailed out over china as their plane ran out of fuel and crashed. he lived to be 103, and as age whittled down their number, the surviving raiders decided to hold their last public reunion in 2013. >> all good things have to come to an end. >> reporter: they played to a packed house and people stood in line to shake dick cole's hand. >> i had no idea you guys were such a big deal. >> we didn't either. >> reporter: today, in a hangar at an air force base in texas, dick cole packed the house one last time. david martin, cbs news. >> glor: and that is the "cbs evening news" for tonight. i'm jeff glor. we will see you tomorrow. have a great night. captioning sponsored by cbs who doesn't love a deal? i do. check out the united explorer card. savin' on this! savin' on this! savin' in here. rewarded! learn more at theexplorercard.com. >>> an urgent search. a body seen facedown in the

. >> reporter: dick cole was the copilot of the lead plane, and the last survivor of the 80 men who struckk at japan at a time when america was still reeling from the attack on pearl harbor. after dropping their bombs on tokyo, cole and his crew bailed out over china as their plane ran out of fuel and crashed. he lived to be 103, and as age whittled down their number, the surviving raiders decided to hold their last public reunion in 2013. >> all good things have to come to an end. >> reporter: they played to a packed house, and people stood in line to shake dick cole's hand. >> i had no idea you guys were such a big deal. >> we didn't either. >> reporter: today in a hangar at an air force base in texas, dick cole packed the house one last time. david martin, cbs news. >> that is the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you, the news k f the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jeff glor. >>> this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm don dahler. all of washington is in spin mode after the release of th

dick cole washe co-pilot in the first t bombershat swept in carried outyo and first attack on the japaneseid was so audacio that the pilots met little resistance and were greeted by wg civilians on the ound who assumed the japanese were stunned. ande although the dam inflicted was relatively minor, president roosevelt's back home was clear, america was fighting back. cole adoolittle did not have enough fuel to land at a chinese air field as planned. so they ditched the plane in a thunderstorm with cole parachuting into a tree whe he spent the night before being reunited the next day with doolittle and escaping across china. in review of the raid years later, cole told the air force informn office of his fellow airman, if anyone was scared, it didn't show. lieutenant colonel richard cole, e last ofhe famed doolittle raiders died on tuesday in san antonio. he was 103 years old. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job from any one else. why accept it from your allergy pills? most pills don't finish the job because they don't relieve nasal congestion. flonase sensimist is different. it relieves

. >> the memorial service for dick cole will be thursday, april 18th, this thursday, and that's the anniversaryg took place in columbia, south carolina, and when i lived there, it was the 50th anniversary. it was amazing how much that city had played into this training mission. they even named their baseball team the capital city bombers after the doolittle raiders. >> 103 years old. what a life. >>> after more than three decades, he is retiring from what is by any measure a dangerous job, and he has one of the most extraordinary stories of survival anywhere. that's coming up. for some of you, your local news is next. the rest of you, stick around. you're watching "cbs this morning: saturday." >>> i love the opening premiere because it starts with your mentor, who was in the military, killed by one of his own men, and then we're off to the races because it does seem like a very open and shut-case for viewers who are watching. when you read this script, luke, you said, i want to play the captain because what? >> oh, man. the marine corps is a fascinating world, but especially being a lawyer in t

for texans and so many americans, lieutenant colonel cole or dick as his friends and brothers in arms called him symbolized one of the most remarkable groups from the greatest generation in world war ii and that would be the doolittle raiders. the group is named for then-lieutenant colonel jimmy doolittle in 1942 fearlessly led b-25 bombers and 80 crew members on a strike targeting factories and military installations in and around tokyo. this was actually dick's first mission and he was jimmy doolittle's copilot. after the attack by the japanese on pearl harbor, this mission wasn't just of tactical importance. it was a major morale boost for our nation. the air force chief of staff david goldfein said those 80 intrepid men changed the course of history. they executed a oneway mission without hesitation and against enormous odds. the mission was, as you might imagine, perilous. doolittle's raiders took off from the u.s.s. hornet with barely enough runway to get airborne. doolittle and kohl's aircraft only had 467 feet to take off in an aircraft that wasn't designed to launch from an a