The Korean War Veterans Honor Roll
Gerald R. Plotner
Rank
Private First Class, U.S. Army
Unit
L CO 21 INF 24 DIV
Date of Death
March 6, 1951
Private First Class Plotner was a member of Company L, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy near Chochiwon, South Korea on July 11, 1950, forced to march to North Korea in the "Tiger Death March", and died at Hanjang-ni, North Korea on March 6, 1951. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.