הטיס שחזר שוב

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On March 3, 1945, a 21-year-old Navy fighter pilot on a mission over the Pacific was shot down by Japanese artillery.

his name might well have been forgotten, or if not for the remarkable,

some might say,

unbelievable story of a little boy name James.

But then, when he was two, the planes James loved,

suddenly began to give him frequent and frightening nightmares.

He'd wake him up and he'd be screaming and he'd always be laying on his back, kicking his feet up at the ceiling.

And I'd say, what were you dreaming about? He said, airplane crash on fire, little man can't get out.

They sound like typical קידי nightmares,

but Andrea says, they went on the same way for months.

Maybe too much TV.

But James was just two, and his parents say, only watching ברני and טלתאביז.

טלתאביז!

And Andrea and ברוס say, they weren't watching World War II documentaries or conversing about

military history. This is an F-18?

No, לא.

So what explains the nightmares and James is strange obsession with airplanes?

I talked to my mom about it a lot of times, my mom said maybe he's remembering a past life.

What did you say?

I'm politely?

בלוני.

Having a past life is not the initial conclusion that you come to.

You try and figure out any other way he could have.

הוא ראה משהו?

האם יש משהו על הטלוויזיה? משהו שאנחנו דיברנו עליו?

אבל כשעת הלכתי,

אנדריה לא יודעת מה להאמין.

הנה ג'יימס, בן גבירות ה-3,

מתחילים לטלפון כמו שהוא עושה פריפליית.

הוא הולך לומר ולומר ולעשות דברים שהיו פוזלים,

כמו בזמן שמותו שלו אירפלן שלו.

ואני אמרתי, תראה, יש בום על בוטו.

הוא אמר, זה לא בום, אבל זה דרופ-טנק.

דרופ-טנק?

אני לא שמעת על דרופ-טנק.

אני לא יודעת מה זה דרופ-טנק.

his parents say, between the ages of 2 ו-4,

ג'יימס would reveal extraordinary details about the life of a former fighter pilot,

mostly at bed time,

when he was drוזy.

ברוס אמר,

what happened to your plane?

he said, it crashed on fire.

וברוס אמר, why did your airplane crash?

והוא אמר,

it got shot.

וברוס אמר, well, who shot your plane?

And I'll never forget to look on his face, he went,

the Japanese!

עכשיו,

אכפת הסרטים האלה, ברוס עומד ברוס עומד ברוס עומד כדי להגיד שהם לא יכולים להיות נכון,

הוא התחיל להגיד את הדרופים שג'יימס היה מדבר עליהם.

ומה שהיא חושבת, הוא אומר,

עשתה אותו לקריאה.

בכל מקרה, הסרטים נראו להשתמשות את ההערכות.

ג'יימס ראה לראות את הדברים האחריים,

אנשים ראשיים,

in the life of a man who had been dead for almost 60 years.

רוס אדאווי אמר, what kind of plane did you fly?

he said a corsair.

הוא אמר, a corsair? הוא אמר, the word corsair.

לא רק שמחזר את ג'יימס ללכת את הלכת לימודי קורסאיר, הוא דימנסטריטה של הטבעי הטבעי,

כמו כן, הוא היה פליפה עבורת ביחד על הטבעי על הטבעי כשהוא היה פור.

הוא הגיע ל-corsair, הוא אמר, זה קורסאיר. הוא אמר,

אתה יודע מה,

things to get flat tires all the time.

In fact,

היסטוריאנס and pilots agree that the plane's tires took a lot of punishment outland.

of course, this is a fact that could easily be found in books or on TV.

But then,

ג'יימס began to offer up the kinds of specific details,

his parents say, are harder to explain away.

another night,

ברוסדד קם in and he said,

do you remember where your plane took off?

he said, it took off of a boat.

do you remember the name of your boat?

Natומה.

Do you remember what your name was? And he always said,

James.

his name is James. It never really occurred to us. We thought he just wasn't understanding the question.

So I said, do you remember any friends or anyone else that you flew with?

And he said, Jack.

Jack Larson.

ברוס התחליטה לעשות קצת ריסוריה.

כמעט הוא תחליטה שהוא תחליטה שהנתומה הייתה אקצועית.

קריאה קטנה קטנה בפסיפית נתנתומה ביי.

וג'ייאק לרסון?

הnavy buddy, ליטל ג'יימס,

were called?

Well, it turns out there was a pilot name Jack Larson who served aboard the Natומa Bay.

In fact, he's alive and well and living in Arkansas. And it was like holy mackro.

I mean, really, you could have poured my brains out of my ears.

And I just, I just couldn't believe it. And there were more clues.

around this time,

ג'יימס began signings and other artworks,

James 3. One day I ask him why he's calling himself James 3.

And every once in a while he ask him that today, he'll still say the same thing.

And one day, while leaping through a new book about the battle of E.O.G.I.M.A. ברוס turned to an aerial photo of the Pacific Island.

ג'יימס was seated nearby.

He pointed to it, he goes, daddy, that's where my airplane was shot down.

And I said, what?

That's my airplane got shot down there, daddy.

And I just went,

I just went blank.

I didn't, I didn't, I couldn't say anything.

By then, ברוס had become a man possessed.

Searching the internet,

combing through military records and interviewing men who served the board of the�ום הבא.

Finally, a breakthrough.

He learned that there was just one pilot from the squadron killed at E.O.G. That pilot,

James M. Houston. Is this why little James was calling himself James 3?

It just crystallized in my mind.

This, this, this has to be, who we're talking about.

You know, my meter of skepticism was starting to go over toward believe.

When Little-James would describe being shot down, he told of how his plane had sustained a direct hit on the end. We had an airplane, and I said, well, can't you show me where it was?

And he, he pointed right up to the front of the engine.

That's what makes this man's story so intriguing.

His name is Ralph Carver. Carver was a rear gunner on a TBM av�ג'ר that flew off the Natומa Bay.

On March 1945, he took part in a raid near E.O.G. As it happens, Carver's plane was right next to the one-clone by James M. Houston, Jr. It was to be Heews last mission before leaving for home the following day.

As Carver recalls, the sky was thick and a flat.

We experienceded מאוד heavy heavy בעיר האפריה,

אבל זה היה זה הכי גדול ביותר.

פעם רגע שאני ראיתי אותך.

אני ראיתי אותך. אני אמרתי שהוא נתן בוועדה,

נכון על מידה של המטרה.

כמו כן כמו שהילד ג'יימס התכנן את זה.

אז מה אתה חושב עכשיו על האנשים שלך שלך, ג'יימס?

אני חושב שהוא היה חיי רב.

אני חושב שבחיי רבותו הוא היה ג'יימס אמ יוסטון,

והוא נהיה רגע בגלל שהוא לא נכנס לכל דבר.

זה בעצם מה שאני חושב.

אני יכול רק להגיד איך זה עפקת לך,

אבל אני חושבת שעם אהבתי לך,

אנד.

אדם היה כל כך מבינים ומתייחס עם כל אלה

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