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And just a quick hand touch. and that was it. and he just simply, boy, that was a fast finish. >> even before japan attacked pearl harbor, louie had enlisted in the army air corps. he was assigned to drop bombs from this b-24, nicknamed superman. based in hawaii, louie bombed wake island and a phosphate plant on nehru island. >> we were told to flatten it. i bombed the runway, and the bombers, and the factory. and then i had one alternate bomb. and i dropped it on a shack that was a fuel supply. and a cloud of smoke shot in the air as high as we were, 8,000 feet. >> suddenly superman was being...

Superman. our dr. richard besser shows us why. >> reporter: what you're witnessing is groundbreaking. rob summers making history by standing up. to understand just how incredible this moment is, you have to go back to a summer night in 2006 when rob, a baseball player nicknamed superman, met tragedy. >> i was playing the best i ever had and was hit by a car in a hit and run while i was standing in my driveway. >> reporter: what do you remember from that time? >> i couldn't move my arms. i tried to yell and nothing would come out. it was like my worst nightmare realized. >> reporter: his mother...