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!
DIVERSION INDUSTRIAL AREA INDUSTRIAL AREA INDUSTRIAL AREA MARSHALLING YARDS AIRFIELD INDUSTRIAL AREA.
Locations: FRANKFURT CITY (Primary) FRANKFURT CITY (Primary) SAARLAUTERN (Primary) SARREGUEMNINES SAARBRUCKEN (Last Resort) SAINT-DIZIER (Las
Mission date: 4 October 1943
American Air Museum
Second Lieutenant Donald Campbell. Bombardier, 44th Bomb Group The Flying Eightballs. Killed in Action (KIA). B-24 piloted by Robert Stamos was attacked by fighters. Navigator Must and Campbell bailed out.
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Died 4 October 1943
American Air Museum
Second Lieutenant John Must. Navigator, 44th Bomb Group The Flying Eightballs. Killed in Action (KIA). B-24 piloted by Robert Stamos was attacked by fighters. Must and Bombardier Campbell bailed out.
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Died 4 October 1943
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant Walter Dozkuse. Tail Gunner, 305th Bomb Group Can Do. Shot down 4 October 1943 in B-17 #4237741. Killed in Action (KIA).
Died 4 October 1943
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant William Hall. Ball Turret Gunner, 305th Bomb Group Can Do. Shot down 4 October 1943 in B-17 #4237741. Killed in Action (KIA).
Died 4 October 1943
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) Marlyn Briggs. Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 4 October 1993
American Air Museum
Second Lieutenant Seymour Cohen. Navigator, 453rd Bomb Group. Seymour's father was a Romanian Jew, his mother Austrian. With the exception of one brother, her family all died in the Holocaust. Seymour was a lawyer, passing the New Jersey Bar in 1938.
Died 4 October 1997
American Air Museum
Second Lieutenant Thomas Underwood. Fighter Pilot, 4th Fighter Group. Assigned to 334FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF. Aircraft P-51B 43-24793 struck by shipboard flak just off the coast of Varhaug, Norway shortly after completing escort for RAF Beaufighters attacking
Died 4 October 1997
American Air Museum
Second Lieutenant Wallace Tyner. Co-Pilot, 466th Bomb Group. Shot down 8 April 1944 in B-24 #4252610 'The Madam. ' Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Died 4 October 2000
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant William Wixted. Right Waist Gunner, 466th Bomb Group. Prisoner of War (POW) shot down by flak and crashed near Britaigny on 6/25/44 in B-24 'Crippled Bitch' #4129371
POW
Died 4 October 2007
American Air Museum
Charles Spaid. Engine mechanic, . Charles Spaid was an engine mechanic stationed at Burtonwood Air Depot in Warrington, England. He was in the Army one month and five days in the States and two years, six months, and 25 days overseas.
Spaid stayed in t
Died 4 October 2014
American Air Museum