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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Mission date: 14 August 1944
American Air Museum
First Lieutenant Louis Alphonse. Fighter Pilot, 356th Fighter Group. Assigned to 359FS, 356FG, 8AF USAAF. 40 missions and credited 1 aerial victory. Failed to Return (FTR) fighter bomber mission to Rheims, on landfall on French coast at Le Treport, last s
Died 14 August 1944
American Air Museum
PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE MISSION PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE MISSION SCOUTING MISSION WEATHER RECONNAISSANCE MISSION WEATHER RECONNAISSANCE MISSION CARPETBAGGER MISSION UNKNOWN.
Locations: ATLANTIC OCEAN CARPETBAGGER HEMMINGSTADT - APHRODITE
Mission date: 14 August 1944
American Air Museum