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!
Technical Sergeant Edward Walker. Radio Operator Gunner, 100th Bomb Group. B-17G#42-31968 'Miss Irish' returned from a mission to Marquise/Mimoyecques, FR and made an emergency landing at Raydon after taking a direct hit from an 88mm in the radi
Died 19 March 1944
American Air Museum
V-1 MISSILE SITES V-1 MISSILE SITES.
Locations: Watten, France Wizernes, France
Mission date: 19 March 1944
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BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY FIGHTER SWEEP JET AIRCRAFT PLANT MARSHALLING YARDS OPTICAL WORKS AIRFIELD AIRFIELD BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY MARSHALLING YARDS VEHICLE FACTORY.
Locations: BAUMENHEIM FU
Mission date: 19 March 1945
American Air Museum
First Lieutenant Grant Stout. Fighter Pilot, 365th Fighter Group.
Died 19 March 1945
American Air Museum
Second Lieutenant James Bolen. Pilot, 78th Fighter Group. Shot down 19 March 1945 in AC 44-72386. Killed in Action (KIA).
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Died 19 March 1945
American Air Museum
Second Lieutenant Ralph Bush. Pilot, 78th Fighter Group. Shot down 19 March 1945 in P-51 #4473251 'Frisco Belle. ' Killed in Action (KIA).
PH
Died 19 March 1945
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant Herbert Rotfeld. Radio Operator, 96th Bomb Group. Shot down and kiled over Plauen Germany on 3/19/45 KIA. March 19, 1945, Glen Wallace wrote in his diary, "What a screwed-up mission! Briefed to hit Rhuland, but didn't. Made a run
Died 19 March 1945
American Air Museum
Second Lieutenant Noel Breen. Pilot, 357th Fighter Group. Noel Breen was born July 30, 1923, the son of Williams and Gertrude McGrath Breen in Lowville, New York. After his service as a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force during WWII, he was a Systems Ana
Died 19 March 1999
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) Doyle Campbell. Nose Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 19 March 2006
American Air Museum