Fredrick Theodore Heyliger was born in Concord, Massachusetts back in 1916. During his youth, he worked as a farm hand. He graduated from Lawrence Academy in Groton, Massachusetts in 1937. He attended college for three years, but I don’t know which one.
He joined the United States Army in 1940, assigned to E Company as a mortar platoon leader. With the outbreak of WWII, he was a First Lieutenant taking command of Easy Company. He saw action during Operation Pegasus in 1944, Operation Market Garden. He oversaw the rescue of some of the British 1st. Airborne Division. He was accidentally shot by one of his own men in 1944. The injury was enough that he was discharged in 1947.
After being discharged, he enrolled at the University of Massachusetts graduating in 1950 with a degree in ornamental horticulture. He died in 2001, he was 85.
What you may not know about Fredrick “Moose” Heyliger is that his actions during Operation Market Garden is being played out again in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. Stephen McCole is playing the part of Fredrick.
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