8. World War II Memories
A little boy named James Leininger from Louisiana began to remember a past life when he was just two years old. James began having horrific, recurring nightmares that woke him in the night. The dreams were of him being trapped in a crashing plane. When he was three years old, he told his parents that he had been a pilot whose plane had been shot down by the Japanese. He gave his parents some very detailed information. He said his name had been Jack Huston and that his plane had flown off a boat named Natoma and that he had been shot down at Iwo Jima. He also had a friend by the name of Jack Larsen. James’ father went on to discover that a man named James Huston from the USS Natoma Bay had indeed had his plane shot down during the Iwo Jima operation. James’ father used an online World War II database to search information and found a Jack Larsen was also aboard the Natoma Bay.
When James father was looking at a book about the battle at Iwo Jima, little James became interested in an aerial photograph of the area, he pointed at it and told his father where his plane was shot down.
After James turned three he drew hundreds of ships and planes and battles. When James’ father attended a Natoma Bay reunion he learned that only one pilot from Natoma Bay had been killed during Iwo Jima and his name had been James Huston.
Little James also gave extensive information about James Huston’s family life . He was able to name Huston’s two siblings, their ages, and the fact that their father had been an alcoholic. The information was later verified by James Huston’s sister who was still alive. Creepy!
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