Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Heyliger an sanya shi zuwa Kamfanin E kafin ya bar Amurka kuma daga baya aka sanya shi a matsayin Babban Ofishin, 2nd Battalion, jagora mai jagora. Bayan da aka sanya Richard Winters a matsayin Babban Jami'in Battalion na biyu (XO), Lieutenant Heyliger ya karbi umurnin Easy Company daga farkon maye gurbin Winters. Heyliger ya umurci Easy Company a lokacin Operation Pegasus
a ranar 23 ga Oktoba, 1944, kuma ya kula da ceto da kuma kwashe wasu daga cikin Rundunar Sojan Sama ta 1 na Birtaniya da suka kasance a gefen Jamus na layin bayan da ba a yi nasara ba Operation Market Garden a fadin Rhine. Bayan nasarar ceton mutane 138 daga rukunin jirgin sama na 1 na Burtaniya, wanda ya karɓi Gicciye na Sojan Burtaniya, ɗaya daga cikin mutanensa, tsoho ne mai damuwa, ya harbe shi ba da gangan ba a ranar 31 ga Oktoba, 1944, yayin da yake sintiri kuma yana magana da Richard Winters game da umurnin Kamfanin Easy. Daga nan sai ya sami fata da jijiyoyin jijiyoyi kafin a sallame shi a watan Fabrairun 1947.