Gene Putzier

Today Joyce and I visited Nancy Zeman. In 1950, her brother Gene Putzier was a 17-year-old soldier who shipped to Korea in the early days of the Korean War. On July 27, he was captured. He was on the death march with the survivors of the Sunchon Tunnel Massacre. He died while the group was held in Pyongyang.For the past ten years, Nancy has been searching for information on Gene. Her hope is to find someone who knew Gene and remembers him on the death march.We invited Walt Whitcomb, one of the survivors, to the meeting today. We spent several hours looking at photographs and documents. Walt shared memories of the death march and the different places the prisoners were held along the way.If anybody remembers Gene, please contact me.