Identified WW2 Purple Heart – Lynch

Quality Identified WW2 Purple Heart (John Joseph Lynch). Purple Heart is slot brooch. Includes case, Purple Heart lapel pin, and Service Record Certificate for T/5 John J. Lynch. Purple Heart is unengraved and unnumbered, but is identified via the included Service Record Certificate (as received).

According to our cursory research, Technician Fifth Grade John J. Lynch (ASN: 33265096), a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, served with Company H, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division during WW2. Lynch was wounded by a German bayonet puncture in June of 1944, during the early stages of the Normandy Campaign.