This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I wrote several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers such as those available through Europeana, and also the Imperial War Museum. I'd welcome further suggestions as the harvesting tool and database are easily extendable.
For information, questions and bug reports please contact James Morley @jamesinealing | james@jamesmorley.net
The data has been harvested from providers using some custom php scripts to query respective APIs based on dates. Data is harmonised and stored in a local mySql database.
Additional jQuery plugins are used to enhance the display, including Masonry and Bootstrap Image Gallery (based on blueimp).
The code is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please. It will be shared on Github shortly!
First Lieutenant Glenn Herter. Fighter Pilot, 4th Fighter Group. Assigned to 336FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF. Last seen chasing an Fw190 and crashed near Wittenburg on a bomber support mission on 3-Mar-44 in P-51B 43-6740. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 3045.
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Died 3 March 1944
American Air Museum
Lieutenant Donald Ahlwardt. Pilot, 94th Bomb Group. Involved in a mid-air collision with a B-17 from the 447th BG over the German coast NW of Hamburg after a mission to Berlin was recalled on 3 Mar 3 1944 in B-17G #42-38075. Killed in Action (KIA).
Died 3 March 1944
American Air Museum
Second Lieutenant Stanley Jacobson. Bombardier, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Crashd on take off due to mechanical problems on an operational mission on 3 Mar 1944 in B-24J #42-99939 'Big Fat Butterfly'. Killed in Action (KIA).
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Died 3 March 1944
American Air Museum