Once her capture was an accomplished fact, and her whereabouts and circumstances became known, it became a matter of honor to come to her aid, circumstances permitting. Circumstances permitted, so much so that the force was able actually to not only extract Private Lynch but recover the remains of several fallen comrades whom they exhumed with their bare hands, shovels not being available. All with no casualties.
Her ordeal was such that the Army saw fit to detach a friend of Private Lynch to accompany her to Germany for morale sustenance. At first that sounded extreme to me, but I realize that it could be done for anyone who had been in those extreme circumstances. It must also be said that the comrade detached for that duty was female--and if Lynch shouldn't have been there then she shouldn't have been either.
She wasn't sent into harm's way deliberately.
S**t happens in a war, sonny-boy.