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!
Lieutenant Robert Mullins. Fighter Pilot, Pilot, 78th Fighter Group. Killed in Action (KIA) crashed near Dreux in P-47 #4226536
Died 6 July 1944
American Air Museum
PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE MISSION PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE MISSION SCOUTING MISSION UNKNOWN WEATHER RECONNAISSANCE MISSION CARPETBAGGER MISSION WEATHER RECONNAISSANCE MISSION.
Locations: ATLANTIC OCEAN CARPETBAGGER CONTINENT
Mission date: 6 July 1944
American Air Museum
V-1 MISSILE SITES BRIDGE.
Locations: BRIDGES SOUTH OF PARIS (Primary)
Mission date: 6 July 1944
American Air Museum
First Lieutenant Ernest Fiebelkorn. Fighter Pilot, 20th Fighter Group. credited with destroying 9 enemy aircraft in aerial combat, 1 damaged & 2 enemy aircraft on the ground while strafing enemy airfields.
AM w/ 5 Oak Leaf Cluster, DFC w/ Oak Leaf C
Died 6 July 1950
American Air Museum