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 Melvin Wright. Pilot, 78th Fighter Group. KNO 10 December 1943. On a local training flight in P47 42-74683, crashed near Duxford.
DFC/ AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster
Died 10 December 1943
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) Thomas Allison. Waist Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 10 December 1997
American Air Museum
First Lieutenant James Sampson. Navigator, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 10 December 2008
American Air Museum
Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) Lewis Scalzo. Flight Engineer, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 10 December 2008
American Air Museum