In the end, we moderated the WW1, WW2, and RAF pages together.” I visited him once, and we have kept in close contact ever since. “Soon after posting some World War II colorizations on my Facebook and Instagram pages, I was noticed by colorizer Doug Banks who started sharing my work with a much larger audience.
I also like to color photos from other periods, but World War II is just my preference!” He was also the one who took me to Normandy, the Ardennes, and World War 2 museums from a young age. Ever since I was a kid, I would listen to wartime stories from my grandparents, and Canadian veterans would come to my town for memorial celebrations my dad, who passed away in 2018, helped to keep these commemorations alive. During the Second World War, a lot happened in the area where I live in the Netherlands, such as Operation Cannonshot and Operation Market Garden. When asked about why he mainly focuses on colorizing images from World War II, Colourised Piece of Jake said, “I focus on World War II out of personal interest.
A group of people in Kleverpark, Haarlem, the Netherlands, listen to the radio in secret, 1944.Ĭolorized by Colourised Piece of Jake // Original from Noord-Hollands Archief US soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 120th Regiment, 30th Infantry Division pass an M24 Chaffee tank, probably of the 744th Tank Battalion, in pursuit of the fleeing 116th Panzer Division through Wesel forest, Germany, 26th March 1945.Ĭolorized by Colourised Piece of Jake // Original from US Signal Corps
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