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!
FIGHTER ESCORT FIGHTER ESCORT P-51 FIGHTER ESCORT of bombers attacking at Bremen, Germany.
Locations: BREMEN BREMEN Bremen, Germany
Mission date: 16 December 1943
American Air Museum
Joe Louis Sparring with Pfc. Booker T. Laster, Camp Crowder (MSA)
Taken 16 Dec 1943
MissouriStateArchives
Private Reginald Cole S4/145212, Royal Army Service Corps
Died 16 December 1943
Lives of the First World War
SHIP YARDS SHIP YARDS SHIP YARDS.
Locations: Bremen, Germany Bremen, Germany Bremen, Germany (2AD Primary Target)
Mission date: 16 December 1943
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant Charles Wilder. Left Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner, 96th Bomb Group. B-17 #4230872 'Ole Puss' collided with another aircraft on 16 December 1943. Plane crashed into North Sea. Killed in Action (KIA).
Staff Sergeant Charles P. Wilder
Died 16 December 1943
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant Eugene Darter. Radio Operator, Radio Operator Gunner, 95th Bomb Group. Shot down 16 December 1943 in B-17 #4230255 'Lonesome Polecat II. ' KIA. He was 30 years old, an ex police, undercover officer, and the 'grandfather'
Died 16 December 1943
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant Everett Missey. Right Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner, 96th Bomb Group. Everett Missey was Right Waist Gunner on B-17 # 42-3249 of 96th Bomber Group / 413th Bomber Squadron, shot down 16 December 1943. Killed in Action (KIA) - Missing Air Crew R
Died 16 December 1943
American Air Museum