Later Years
After the war, Heffron went to work for Publicker Industries, which operated a whiskey distillery plant at 3223 South Delaware Avenue in Philadelphia. In 1966, after he had been employed by Publicker for 20 years, it relocated its operation from Philadelphia to Linfield, Pennsylvania; Heffron did not relocate with the company, and spent the next 27 years working on the Philadelphia waterfront, checking cargo and clerking.
Heffron is referred to frequently in the Stephen Ambrose book Band of Brothers; in the HBO/Dreamworks/Playtone miniseries of the same name produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg in 2001, he was played by Scottish actor Robin Laing. Heffron appears as himself at the end of episode ten, speaking about the Company, and also makes a brief cameo appearance in part four, sitting at a table in Eindhoven and waving a small flag, while Sgt. Talbert is seen kissing a Dutch woman.
Heffron wrote Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends: Two WWII Paratroopers from the Original Band of Brothers Tell Their Story with fellow veteran William "Wild Bill" Guarnere and journalist Robyn Post in 2007, outlining the activities of Easy Company 1942-1945.
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