>> i'm just trying to do what i can with what i know. i don't think it's really all that special. >> that is special. >> the team has applied for a patent and will share in any future sales with the air force which is funding the research. james? >> james: thanks. he told us never to call him a hero. but across 72 hours in the month of june, 1942, a navy pilot from coffeyville, kansas, dusty clients, made single-handedly changed the course of world war ii. our look at problems and brought us the story of, yes, heroism from the pentagon. >> it was the final battle in the pacific, turning the tide for the united states in world war ii. six months after the surprise attack in pearl harbor crippled the american fleet, the u.s. navy struck back. now, 75 years after the battle of midway, the untold story of the heroic naval aviator who