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 Jerome Flohr. Navigator, 388th Bomb Group. Killed in Action (KIA). Earlier 4 AUG 1943 after takeoff from N. Africa, shuttlerun to Regensburg, ac B17#42-30230 'Homesick Angel' ran out of gas and crashed in cornfield in Suffolk.
Died 12 October 1943
American Air Museum
Captain Paul Mathison. Co-Pilot, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed in Action (KIA) 12 October 1944 Crashed at Osnabruck in B-24 #4250606
AM w/ 2 Oak Leaf Cluster/ PH
Died 12 October 1944
American Air Museum
Flight Officer Jack Walters. Co-Pilot, 466th Bomb Group. Killed in Action (KIA) Crashed at Osnabruck in B-24 'Off Limits Again' #4294974
Died 12 October 1944
American Air Museum
Lieutenant Nathaniel Whitman. Pilot, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed in Action (KIA) 12 October 1944 . Crashed at Osnabruck in B-24 # 4250606
AM/ PH
Died 12 October 1944
American Air Museum
Lieutenant William Watters. Navigator, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed in Action (KIA) Crashed at Osnabruck in B-24 #4250606
Died 12 October 1944
American Air Museum
Second Lieutenant Charles Agbashian. Pilot, 27th Air Transport Group. Died Non-Battle (DNB) - Killed on Take Off in a P-38 when he shut off fuel switch instead of booster pump.
Died 12 October 1944
American Air Museum
Second Lieutenant Frank McGowan. Navigator, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed in Action (KIA) 12 October 1944 Crashed at Osnabruck in B-24 #4250606
PH
Died 12 October 1944
American Air Museum
Sergeant Herminio Rodriguez. Tail Gunner, 466th Bomb Group. Killed in Action (KIA) Crashed at Osnabruck in B-24 'Off Limits Again' #4294974
Died 12 October 1944
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) Wallace Faires. Left Waist Gunner, 466th Bomb Group. Killed in Action (KIA) Crashed at Osnabruck in B-24 'Off Limits Again' #4294974
Died 12 October 1944
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) William Hergenhan. Right Waist Gunner, 466th Bomb Group. Killed in Action (KIA) Crashed at Osnabruck in B-24 'Off Limits Again' #4294974
Died 12 October 1944
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant Edwin Novick. Tail Gunner, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed in Action (KIA) 12 October 1944 Crashed at Osnabruck in B-24 #4250606
AM/ PH
Died 12 October 1944
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant Elmer Krummert. Bombardier, Enlisted, Nose Gunner, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed in Action (KIA) Crashed at Osnabruck in B-24 #4250606
Died 12 October 1944
American Air Museum
Technical Sergeant Charles Fortin. Top Turret Gunner, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed in Action (KIA) 12 October 1944 Crashed at Osnabruck in B-24 #4250606
AM/ PH
Died 12 October 1944
American Air Museum
Colonel David Van Epps. Pilot, 4th Fighter Group. Assigned to 334FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF. Aircraft P-51B 43-6941 sustained flak hits while strafing an airdrome near Osnabruck. Van Epps pulled aircraft up and baled out at 1,000ft. POW. MACR 3749.
Awards: DFC,
Died 12 October 1975
American Air Museum
Private First Class Eldean Salmon. Militaru Occupation Specialty 521 - Airman Basic, 384th Bomb Group. Assigned to the 544th Bombardment Squadron, 384th Bombardment Group on Station 106 Special Orders #176 dated 28 December 1943.
Died 12 October 1990
American Air Museum
Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) James Noe. Ground Crew Aircraft Mechanic, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 12 October 1994
American Air Museum
First Lieutenant Donald Gaylord. Pilot, 351st Bomb Group. Second Lieutenant Donald Gaylord from Waterloo, Iowa, was a pilot of the 351st Bomb Group, based at Polebrook in Northamptonshire from April 1943. During his second mission on 5 November 1943, Gayl
Died 12 October 1998
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) Arnold Deiterman. Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 12 October 2002
American Air Museum
Captain Kenneth Sorace. Fighter Pilot, Lead Pilot, Pilot, 55th Fighter Group. Shot down by ME 109 on 96th Mission, 1/14/44 (over France)Lived with French Maquis (evadee) for 3 mos. Returned to England via Italy, Algiers and Casablance. Returned to USA, Oc
Died 12 October 2003
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) LaVern Young. Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 12 October 2003
American Air Museum