Mr. Ballin

Like, he's not actually recalling something that happened in the Battle of Iwo Jima.

Like, this is just, you know, a false memory or something.

However, Bruce was unable to definitively find the names of pilots who actually flew in the Battle of Iwo Jima.

He wanted to find if there was any pilots named James who potentially crashed during that battle, but he just couldn't find the information.

Maybe it existed somewhere, but he couldn't find it.

And so Bruce had this idea to get in touch with this old veterans group, all these old guys who had served in the Battle of Iwo Jima that were still alive.

They were based out in San Diego and they got together periodically and just sort of had social hours and stuff like that.

And Bruce, he goes out to San Diego and under false pretenses, he basically tells the group that he's shooting a documentary about the Battle of Iwo Jima and he needs some information, you know, about certain pilots that flew during the battle.

He goes out there and he goes to one of their social events and he begins asking around, asking if anybody knew about any pilots named James who were shot down during the Battle of Iwo Jima.

And basically all the men he talked to directed him to go talk to the group's historian, this one guy who kind of had all the information about what had happened during this battle.

And so Bruce goes over to this guy

And he starts asking him questions about, you know, any pilots that, you know, were shot down during the battle, do you know?

And the historian, he tells Bruce that, you know, during that battle, virtually no planes were shot down.

However, there was one plane that was shot down.

A single U.S.

Air Force pilot was shot down during the Battle of Iwo Jima and he was killed.

And that pilot's name was James Houston Jr.,

Bruce couldn't help but be truly shocked that the only pilot shot down during the Battle of Iwo Jima happened to be named James.

Like, that just seemed like a coincidence that couldn't be possible considering what his son was saying.

And so suddenly, Bruce doesn't know what to make of this information he's been given.