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!
Second Lieutenant Henry Perry. Pilot, 78th Fighter Group. Killed in Action (KIA) in midair collision with another squad member. P38 42-12905 took off from Goxhill. Collision occured in the Forest of Bowland on the Lancashire-Yorkshire border with heavy cl
Died 26 January 1943
American Air Museum
Second Lieutenant Stephen White. Pilot, 78th Fighter Group. Killed in Action (KIA) in midair collision with another squad member. P38 42-12928 took off from Goxhill. Collision occured in the Forest of Bowland on the Lancashire-Yorkshire border with heavy
Died 26 January 1943
American Air Museum
First Lieutenant Reba Tobiason nee Whittle. Flight Nurse, . Assigned to 813th Medical Air Evacuation Transportation Squadron, IX Air Force Troop Carrier Command, 9AF. Flew over 500hrs on 40 missions between Jan-44 to Sept-44. Failed to return from casualt
Died 26 January 1981
American Air Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Eugene Clark. Pilot, Deputy Commanding Officer, 352nd Fighter Group. Lieutenant Colonel 'Pop' Clark served as a pilot with the 352nd Fighter Group.
On 21 May 1944 he was shot down. It was his 94th mission.
He crashed at Hast
Died 26 January 1987
American Air Museum
Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) Winston Adkins. Radio Operator, 100th Bomb Group. Shot down by fighters and crashed near Hanover on a mission to Brunswick on 10 Feb 1944 in B-17G #42-31265. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Died 26 January 2004
American Air Museum