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!
Captain Elmer Gedeon. , 394th Bomb Group. At 6-foot-4, he was a naturally gifted athlete and played baseball and football at Michigan, and is one of only two Major League Baseball players killed in action during World War II.
In 1941, Gedeon transferred
Died 20 April 1944
American Air Museum
Lieutenant Lowell Baker. , 457th Bomb Group. Killed in Action (KIA) when plane went down on return to base after mission was recalled.
Died 20 April 1944
American Air Museum
Na een vuurgevecht met de SS vond Cornelis Ruizendaal geboren 17 mei 1909, leider van de Aaltense KP, op 20 april 1944 de dood in een konijnenhok op een binnenplaats achter het huis van de familie Gastelaars in Doesburg waar hij zich had verscholen. Uit h
20 April 1944
Aaltense Musea