My name is Peter Hendrikx and I was born in 1966. My hometown was Eindhoven, where I grew up with stories about the liberation by the American 101st Airborne Division. This started my interest in the American campaign in Western Europe, with special interest in the airborne operations and General Patton's Third U.S. Army.

Since 1984 I've met hundreds of veterans at commemorations and reunions, and corresponded with many hundreds more. Although I have well over 2500 books in my library, their stories and letters give by far the best impression of what they've been through to liberate Europe from nazi Germany. I am proud to call many of these great veterans my friends.

I helped found the first Airborne Museum in Best, the Netherlands, and translated and published George Koskimaki's book Hell's Highway into Dutch. I also helped other authors with their research.
Although I am interested in the history first and foremost, I also collect memorabilia.

I am married to the former Kimberly P. Georgius from Charlotte, NC, whom I met on one of my many trips to the U.S., visiting veteran friends. We have three children, Astrid, Laurens and Wessel and live in the country just south of Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

 

 

Peter Hendrikx on the left with two airborne greats, Carwood Lipton and Ronald
C. Speirs. They were both officers in Company E, 506th Parachute Infantry Regi-
ment, 101st Airborne Division. The story of this company, made legendaric by
the book "Band of Brothers" by Stephen Ambrose and the HBO television
miniseries, is representative for what all combat units went through during WW2.