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    Revisiting the James Leininger Case: A Survival Skeptic Strikes Back

    C --2 CALDWELL, James E Jr, ENS, O-114415, USNR, from California, USS Enterprise, location Solomon Islands, missing, date of loss October 26, 1942 (pm) + CALDWELL, James E, Ensign, O-114415, USN, from California, Oct-43, Manila American Cemetery (bm) + CALDWELL, James Earl, Jr., Ensign, USNR...
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    Revisiting the James Leininger Case: A Survival Skeptic Strikes Back

    B -- 1 ***BATES, James Parker, Jr., Ensign, USNR. Father, Mr. James P. Bates, Sr., 7342 S.E. 29th Ave., Portland, Ore (na)***NOT INCLUDED. Killed off the English coast in a training exercise. (Source: www.newspapers.com, Carlsbad Current Argus (Carlsbad, New Mexico), 24 May 1942, p.1...
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    Revisiting the James Leininger Case: A Survival Skeptic Strikes Back

    Results of a Ctrl F search through the US Navy history website for James including only "jr."s, (and/or father named James) and according to the criteria established in the previous posts (only officers included (all pilots were officers), service on non-aircraft carrier ships or land-based not...
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    Revisiting the James Leininger Case: A Survival Skeptic Strikes Back

    Results of a Ctrl F search through the US Navy history website for James, jr according to the criteria established in the previous posts (only officers included (all pilots were officers), service on non-aircraft carrier ships not included, Pacific theater only, KIA or missing or later declared...
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    Revisiting the James Leininger Case: A Survival Skeptic Strikes Back

    According to the website ancestry.com, 20 percent of boys are given the first and middle names of a family member (father?). That's 1 in 5, as an upper limit. If this held true a century ago, when theoretically most US Navy WW2 pilots were born, then we could use the 1/5 figure to calculate the...
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    The US built 151 aircraft carriers during WW2, of which 122 were the smaller escort carriers. Great Britain, by contrast, had 14 aircraft carriers total during the war. So the contribution of Royal Navy (including Commonwealth Navy) pilot-officers named James, who flew off of aircraft...
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    Revisiting the James Leininger Case: A Survival Skeptic Strikes Back

    Addendum to List of US Navy officer war dead according to the criteria established in previous two posts: N -- NOE, Merle J, Lieutenant Junior Grade, O-112845, USN, from Montana, Jan-44, Honolulu Memorial (bm) + NOE, Merle James, Lt., (jg), USNR. Wife, Mrs. Shirley R. Noe, 2216 E. 46th St...
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    Revisiting the James Leininger Case: A Survival Skeptic Strikes Back

    H -- HANSEN, William James, Lt., (jg), USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Charles Hansen, 8555 Dante Ave., Chicago, Ill (na) + HANSEN, William T(?), Lieutenant Junior Grade, O-102996, USN, from Illinois, Aug-45, Manila American Cemetery (bm) HEMPSTED, James M, Lieutenant Junior Grade...
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    Revisiting the James Leininger Case: A Survival Skeptic Strikes Back

    I've gone through A-Z already. If I could determine that the Navy officer was killed while serving aboard an aircraft carrier or if I wasn't sure, then I included the name. If I could determine that the Navy officer was killed while serving aboard a ship other than an aircraft carrier (eg...
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    Revisiting the James Leininger Case: A Survival Skeptic Strikes Back

    According to this US Navy history website there were 1274 American Navy aviation officers killed in air combat operations during the entire American involvement in WW2 (Dec 7, 1941 - Aug 1945), both Pacific and Atlantic theaters...
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    Revisiting the James Leininger Case: A Survival Skeptic Strikes Back

    Re-reading Sudduth's 2021 paper (JSE 35(4) "The James Leininger case re-examined" p.1001, Sudduth makes the following concessions about little James's "early bird" claims. James claimed that: 1) He was a pilot. 2) He flew a plane off a boat. 3) The Japanese shot his plane down. 4) His plane...
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    Revisiting the James Leininger Case: A Survival Skeptic Strikes Back

    The Leininger kitchen looking towards the sunroom (sourced from zillow, photo 2021): Inside the sunroom. Note the kitchen window upper left (sourced from zillow, photo 2021): (must be logged in to view photos in full size)
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    Revisiting the James Leininger Case: A Survival Skeptic Strikes Back

    Here is a post by Andrea to a member called "Trin's mom" in a thread called "I'm soooooo freaked out" (Nov 2005): http://reincarnationforum.com/threads/im-soooooo-freaked-out.708/#post-15413 "Your story reminds me so much of my son James's story. I do belive, as another viewer did, that your...
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    Revisiting the James Leininger Case: A Survival Skeptic Strikes Back

    I went back to www.newspapers.com and searched both "sticking my neck out" and "here goes my neck", wanting to compare the relative popularity of each expression (they basically mean the same thing). "sticking my neck out" got nearly 12,000 hits. "here goes my neck" got 69 hits. So the idiom...
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    Revisiting the James Leininger Case: A Survival Skeptic Strikes Back

    Here are some examples of “here goes my neck” from www.newspapers.com . I've skipped over any examples that include any qualifiers like "out" and any examples where the meaning was anticipated beforehand or explained immediately afterwards (e.g. "sticking my neck out here"). Straight...
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    Revisiting the James Leininger Case: A Survival Skeptic Strikes Back

    2009 book interview of the Leiningers in which Andrea mentions the sunroom incident (2:50 - 3:09) : Andrea ties little James's confession that he was the "little man" who died when his plane got shot down to the same summer 2001 sunroom incident where James suddenly stands up, salutes, and...
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    Revisiting the James Leininger Case: A Survival Skeptic Strikes Back

    In this clip, Anthony Peake interviews Michael Sudduth January 2022 about their mutual interests including the James Leininger case, shortly before Sudduth's paper appeared in the Journal of Scientific Exploration (JSE vol 35 (4) ). Sudduth talks about the case, his research into the case...
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    Revisiting the James Leininger Case: A Survival Skeptic Strikes Back

    I think I may have found a better explanation for the "Now here goes my neck." line that little 3 year old James Leininger says while alone, playing with a toy airplane in the sunroom, in the summer of 2001 (see post #14 above). I had never heard the expression before, and therefore thought...
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    Revisiting the James Leininger Case: A Survival Skeptic Strikes Back

    Point well taken. My son was the same way. But re-watch the Blue Angels video. There's no context in the caption footer "Capt. Scott Larsen". A lot of reading is context. And developing a vocabulary. My guess is that "Capt." "Scott" "Larsen" are not in the average 2 year old's...
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    Revisiting the James Leininger Case: A Survival Skeptic Strikes Back

    From Soul Survivor – The Reincarnation of a World War Two Fighter Pilot (Bruce and Andrea Leininger with Ken Gross, 2009: 105) “There were other peculiar moments [in that summer of 2001]—for instance, when [3-year-old] James was alone in the sunroom and, as Andrea watched from a distance, he...
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