jerry coleman arrived in august of '44.e. we were stationed a green island and then we went into the philippines. >> what was your first aircraft. >> we as dive bomber known as a scud bomber. >> what kind of bombs are you dropping. >> thousand-pound bombs. i wanted to sank carrier. that was my goal zblou flew how many combat missions. >> 57. i hated the sector search, nothing around but water and you had to fly a couple of feet off the water. i hated that. i really did. ♪ >> as coleman battled the japanese from the sky, bob feller continued to face them on the philippine sea. >> when you're in these engagements with did you have a sense of being a part of something absolutely extraordinary? >> not really. when you're that age in your tos, you think you're immortal. of course we were aware we would be hurt. we had to bury men at sea. that's how war is. >> you road out a couple of really big typhoons as well? >> we had 180-mile-per-hour sustained winds. >> there are no typhoons in europe but in the winter of '44 there was sno