Writer of the of the original post, u/PhantomMarinePodcast, gave me the permission to repost this here from u/UnsolvedMysteries*. Here is the* link to the podcast by the writer himself.
William Willard Langston grew up in small towns around Newport, Arkansas. After high school he moved to Michigan where he met and married Linda Schmeichel. They had a son named Duane. William (who was sometimes known by his middle name) enlisted in the marines in 1943, was deployed in 1944, and declared killed in action on Iwo Jima on March 7, 1945.
On January 19, 1946, a man showed up in Newport, Arkansas, claiming to be Langston. He was not immediately recognized (NB that he hadn't lived in the area for about 11 years), but he greeted old friends familiarly, asked about their relatives by name, used old nicknames, and was conversant about old stories that witnesses believed only Langston would know. In one instance, cafe owner Lacey Fields asked: "Was I ever at your house?" "You came with Dutch Vaughn," replied the man. On January 20, the claimant left Newport. Nobody was sure where he was headed. The story made national headlines for the next couple weeks. His mother received a letter in the mail, claiming to be from him, that said he was headed to a veteran's hospital in Oklahoma and would get in touch afterward.
His widow had remarried two weeks earlier in Michigan (the man in Newport was aware of this, even though many of her own family members were not - he claimed he had gone to Michigan first and, seeing her remarried, decided to leave town and head for where he'd grown up).
A week after the man appeared in Newport, he postmarked a letter from Memphis to a local newspaper - he complained of how veterans were treated in that city and said he was moving on. Whoever wrote the letter was familiar with something that had happened in Newport's past. There was no further trace of the man, referred to by the press as "The Phantom Marine."
I've spent the past year investigating this mystery. The news coverage - both national and local - stops in February of 1946. I've interviewed relatives of William Langston and his wife. I've FOIA'd numerous documents from the FBI and the National Archives.
I'm looking for help resolving this mystery. Happy to
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It's gonna be a big one....
Would love to play squads on a WW1 based map. Squad order to push over the trench. Endless cannon fodder and melee galore. Bring on the Somme!!!
But if that were to happen, I imagine we get more WW2 maps first. Please let us storm some sort of beach in the pacific. And obviously add in much needed bayonet and melee mechanics. And carve the crap out of the map with underground tunnels.
So much can be done with this game.
