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!
Lieutenant Don Moore. Pilot, 305th Bomb Group Can Do. Shot down 27 August 1943 in B-17 #4229530. Killed in Action (KIA).
Died 27 August 1943
American Air Museum
Second Lieutenant Robert Brower. Pilot, 78th Fighter Group. Killed in Action (KIA) 27 August 1943.
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Died 27 August 1943
American Air Museum
Sergeant David Pearlman. Right Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner, 305th Bomb Group Can Do. Shot down 27 August 1943 in B-17 #4229530. Killed in Action (KIA).
Died 27 August 1943
American Air Museum
Sergeant Harold Graham. Radio Operator, Radio Operator Gunner, 305th Bomb Group Can Do. Shot down 27 August 1943 in B-17 #4229530. Killed in Action (KIA).
Died 27 August 1943
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant Alfred Poitras. Right Waist Gunner, 389th Bomb Group. Shot down by fighters on 27 Aug 1943 in B-24D 42-40767 'Bad Penny' crashed at sea 65 miles off Portreath, on the return from a detachment to the 9th AF in North Africa in suppo
Died 27 August 1943
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant John Stout. Left Waist Gunner, 389th Bomb Group. Shot down by fighters on 27 Aug 1943 in B-24D 42-40767 'Bad Penny' crashed at sea 65 miles off Portreath, on the return from a detachment to the 9th AF in North Africa in support of
Died 27 August 1943
American Air Museum
Technical Sergeant Edward Keller. Ground Crew; Passenger, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Shot down by fighters on 27 Aug 1943 in B-24D 42-40767 'Bad Penney' crashed at sea 65 miles off Portreath on the return from a detachment to the 9th
Died 27 August 1943
American Air Museum
V1 MISSILE SITES V1 MISSILE SITES.
Locations: WATTEN WATTEN
Mission date: 27 August 1943
American Air Museum
First Lieutenant Hugh Bowers. Pilot, 447th Bomb Group. Killed in Action (KIA) Crashed into North Sea in B-17 Due Back #42102632
Died 27 August 1944
American Air Museum
Second Lieutenant George Pasvanis. Navigator, 447th Bomb Group. Killed in Action (KIA) Crashed into North Sea in B-17 Due Back #42102632
Died 27 August 1944
American Air Museum
Second Lieutenant James Doster. Co-Pilot, 447th Bomb Group. Killed in Action (KIA) Crashed into North Sea in B-17 Due Back #42102632
Died 27 August 1944
American Air Museum
Second Lieutenant Leonard Moore. Bombardier, 447th Bomb Group. Killed in Action (KIA) Crashed into North Sea in B-17 Due Back #42102632
Died 27 August 1944
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant Edward Bennett. Tail Gunner, 447th Bomb Group. Killed in Action (KIA) Crashed into North Sea in B-17 Due Back #42102632
Died 27 August 1944
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant Edward Noga. Ball Turret Gunner, 447th Bomb Group. Killed in Action (KIA) Crashed into North Sea in B-17 Due Back #42102632
Died 27 August 1944
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant Nathan Stark. Right Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner, 447th Bomb Group. Killed in Action (KIA) Crashed into North Sea in B-17 Due Back #42102632
Died 27 August 1944
American Air Museum
Margaret Bourke-White. , . American photographer and documentary photographer. She is best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry, the firsthand American female war photojournalist, and the first female phot
Died 27 August 1971
American Air Museum