James Leininger's parents Bruce, 59, and Andrea, 47, say they were initially sceptical about reincarnation, reports the Daily Telegraph.
But over time, they have become convinced their son has had a former life. From the age of two, he has suffered from nightmares about being shot down in a plane.
Mrs Leininger said: "In the throes of his nightmares you couldn't work out what he was saying.
"But two or three months in, I was walking down the hall and I heard him saying, 'Airplane crash, plane on fire, little man can't get out'. It chilled me to my bone hearing this.
"I asked him what happened to his plane and he said, 'It crashed on fire'. I asked how it crashed and he said the Japanese shot his plane."
Flicking through a book, the two-year-old pointed at a picture of Iwo Jima in the Pacific and said that was where his plane was shot down.
Mr Leininger found that just one pilot died during the battle of Iwo Jima, James M Huston Jnr, 21. He was shot down on March 3, 1945.
The Leiningers have since traced the relatives of the dead pilot who they say were impressed by James's apparent memories of the war.
James, from Lafayette, Louisiana, said: "I think the story is incredible. I don't remember any of it but hearing about what happened when I was two, it is incredible."
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