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