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!
First Lieutenant Harold Dyment. Pilot, 479th Anti-Submarine Group. Killed in Action (KIA). B24 42-40598 failed to return from to St. Eval from 'Musketry' patrol. An SOS was received but searchers couldn't find crew or plane. The crew was as
Died 20 July 1943
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant Benjamin Bromley. Aerial Engineer, 479th Anti-Submarine Group. Killed in Action (KIA). B24 42-40598 failed to return from to St. Eval from 'Musketry' patrol. An SOS was received but searchers couldn't find crew or plane. The
Died 20 July 1943
American Air Museum
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Mission date: 20 July 1944
American Air Museum
Lieutenant Manley Darsnek. Bombardier, 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars. Killed in Action (KIA) Shot down by fighters and crashed near Zwickau in B-17 Winnie Frank Joe #4297954
Died 20 July 1944
American Air Museum
Lieutenant General Lewis Brereton. Commanding General, . Lewis Hyde Brereton (June 21, 1890 – July 20, 1967) was a military aviation pioneer and lieutenant general in the United States Air Force. A 1911 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, h
Died 20 July 1967
American Air Museum
Major Eugene Roberson. Squadron Operations Officer/785th BS Commander, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 20 July 2000
American Air Museum
Technical Sergeant Eugene Colburn. Right Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner, 351st Bomb Group. Damaged by fighters and flak enroute on a mission to Schweinfurt, GR and crashed on the return near Amiens, FR on 24 Feb 1944 in B-17F #42-3517 'Happy Warrior'
Died 20 July 2004
American Air Museum