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!
BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY AIRCRAFT FACTORY DIESEL FACTORY AIRCRAFT FACTORY MUNITIONS PLANT AIRCRAFT FACTORY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX OIL REFINERY OIL REFINERY OIL REFINERY OIL REFINERY OIL REFINERY OIL R
Mission date: 6 August 1944
American Air Museum
First Lieutenant James Brantley. Pilot, 387th Bomb Group. Officially Killed In Action (KIA) but actually died in tragic accident while taxying, at start of B-26 bombing mission to France, on August 6 1944.
1st Lieutenant James H. Brantley was born on A
Died 6 August 1944
American Air Museum
Järbo, Dalsland. Bröderna Petter J:son Aspelunds och Johannes Jonason Aspelunds gravar på socknens kyrkogård. 6 Aug 1944.
6 August 1944
Vänersborgs museum
Lieutenant Walker Whiteside. Fighter Pilot, Pilot, 20th Fighter Group. Killed in Action (KIA) crashed near Hennickendorf in P-51 #44-13792 on 6 Aug 1944.
AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster, DFC w/ Oak Leaf Cluster
1 Me109, 1/2 Me210, 4 unidentified
Died 6 August 1944
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant Thaddeus Jez. Tail Gunner, 467th Bomb Group. Killed in Action (KIA) Shot down by flak and crashed at Hamburg in B-24 Wallowing Wilbert #4129421
Died 6 August 1944
American Air Museum