Robert Emory "Popeye" Wynn Jr. (July 10, 1921 – March 18, 2000)[1] was a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army during World War II.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Wynn and Powers along with others in the vocational school were shipped to Navy Shipyard at Portsmouth to work on the battleships.
[3] They understood that the training would be difficult, so they vowed they would make it to the end, and they made a bet that if either of them quit, that person would have to pay the other ten dollars.
"[4] Both Wynn and Powers were assigned to Easy Company at Camp Toccoa and received training under Captain Herbert Sobel.
Later Winters in his biography Beyond the Band of Brothers wrote, "My God, it's beautiful when you think of a guy who was so dedicated to his company that he apologized for getting hit.
Now here was a soldier – hit by enemy fire in Normandy on D-Day, behind the German lines, and he is more upset that he had let his buddies down than he was concerned with his own injury.
[5] Carwood Lipton and Mike Ranney found Wynn on his way back to safe area, and they helped to apply sulfa on his wound.
[8] During the fight in Haguenau, Wynn was chosen for a patrol mission across the Moder River led by Sergeant Ken Mercier.