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!
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Locations: BOULOGNE (Primary) CAEN (Primary) CHERBOURG (Primary) LE HARVE (Primary) PAS DE CALAISE (Primary) WIMEREAUX (Primary)
Mission date: 5 June 1944
American Air Museum
Lieutenant Alfred Moussette. Pilot, 491st Bomb Group. Killed in Action (KIA) Shot down 05-Jun-44 in B-24 #44-40243.
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Died 5 June 1944
American Air Museum
Lieutenant Hugh Pickell. Pilot, 390th Bomb Group. Shot down 5 June 1944 in B-17 #4239887 'Pickle Dropper. ' Plane crashed into Channel. Killed in Action (KIA).
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Died 5 June 1944
American Air Museum
Naval C-in-C's HQ Wireless Telegraph Room on the night of June 5th 1944. Barnett Freedman joined the ranks of the War Artists Advisory Committee's official war artists early in the war, but his stormy temperament soon meant that he was given sho
1944
National Maritime Museum
Second Lieutenant John Steinwedel. Fighter Pilot, 78th Fighter Group. Killed in Action (KIA) crashed near Amiens due to weather conditions in P-47 42-76473
Died 5 June 1944
American Air Museum