Robert Emory "Popeye" Wynn Jr. (10 July 1921-18 March 2000) was a US Army sergeant who served in Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division during World War II.
Biography[]
Robert Emory Wynn was born in South Hill, Virginia in 1921. He and his friend Darrell Powers worked at the Navy Shipyard at Portsmouth before joining the US Army paratroopers during World War II, and he was assigned to Easy Company. After training at Camp Toccoa, he participated in Operation Overlord in 1944, and he was shot in the buttocks during the Brecourt Manor Assault. He was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart, and he rejoined his company on 1 September 1944 and participated in Operation Market Garden and the Siege of Bastogne. Wynn worked as an ironworker after the war, and he died in 2000.