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 Malta Stepp. Pilot, 495th Fighter Training Group. Joined RAFVR, assigned to 41 Sqn RAF, Dieppe raid, 4 missions and 1 damaged Fw190, transferred to 121 Sqn RAF, transferred to 336FS,4FG, 8AF USAAF, promoted Captain
transferred to HQ Sqn 2906th Obs
Died 30 September 1943
American Air Museum