This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I created several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers (see full list below). 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
Current totals by data source
Current totals by date accuracy
Breakdown of institutional data retrieved through Europeana
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum - 22336 items; Sjöhistoriska museet - 11809 items; Bohusläns museum - 7936 items; Vänersborgs museum - 7561 items; Kulturarv Västernorrland - 4090 items; Rijksmuseum - 3241 items; Tekniska museet - 2444 items; Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden - 2317 items; Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum - 2007 items; Miliseum - 1287 items; Örebro läns museum - 1254 items; Flygvapenmuseum - 1058 items; ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen - 1042 items; Marinmuseum - 735 items; Skansen - 629 items; Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - 579 items; Riksantikvarieämbetet - 381 items; Stiftelsen Nordiska museet - 288 items; Historisch Museum Ede - 254 items; Stedelijk Museum Zutphen - 221 items; Ajuntament de Girona - 106 items; CODA Museum - 103 items; INP - National Heritage Institute, Bucharest - 103 items; Upplandsmuseet - 102 items; The Archaeological Heritage Agency of Iceland - 95 items; Aaltense Musea - 58 items; Stadsmuseum Harderwijk - 56 items; Sundsvalls museum - 50 items; National library of Montenegro "Đurđe Crnojević" - 44 items; Länsmuseet Gävleborg - 37 items; Nederlands Openluchtmuseum - 31 items; Vasamuseet - 28 items; Images of Old Cluj - 27 items; Nederlands Tegelmuseum - 20 items; Postmuseum - 18 items; Δήμος Τρίπολης - 11 items; Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem - 9 items; Cluj County Library - 9 items; Slovak National Library - 8 items; Csorba Győző Könyvtár - Pécs - 7 items; Stadskasteel Zaltbommel - 7 items; Stichting Liemers Museum - 6 items; Lietuvos dailės muziejus - 4 items; Žemaičių muziejus „Alka“ / Samogitian Museum "Alka" - 3 items; Deventer Musea - 3 items; NOC*NSF - 3 items; Nationalmuseum, Sweden - 2 items; Wikimedia Commons Community - 2 items; Lietuvos švietimo istorijos muziejus / Museum of Lithuanian Education History - 2 items; Rippl-Rónai Megyei Hatókörű Városi Múzeum - Kaposvár - 2 items; Museum Elburg - 1 items; National Library of Bulgaria - 1 items; Horniman Museum and Gardens - 1 items; jNederlands Openluchtmuseum - 1 items; Lietuvos dailės muziejus / Lithuanian Art Museum - 1 items; Kauno IX forto muziejus / Kaunas 9th Fort Museum - 1 items; A. Baranausko ir A. Vienuolio-Žukausko memorialinis muziejus / Antanas Baranauskas and Antanas Vienuolis-Žukauskas Memorial Museum - 1 items; Slot Loevestein - 1 items; Museon - 1 items
Breakdown of institutional data retrieved through Flickr Commons
The U.S. National Archives - 1730 items; The Library of Congress - 1093 items; SMU Libraries Digital Collections - 1038 items; State Library and Archives of Florida - 912 items; State Library of Queensland, Australia - 891 items; Cornell University Library - 840 items; bibliothequedetoulouse - 821 items; Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons - 567 items; Swedish National Heritage Board - 559 items; National Library of Ireland on The Commons - 494 items; State Library of New South Wales collection - 402 items; Vestfoldmuseene | Vestfold Museums - 385 items; MissouriStateArchives - 371 items; National Library of Australia Commons - 295 items; NASA on The Commons - 262 items; Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums - 249 items; National Library of Norway - 229 items; Royal Australian Historical Society - 216 items; Deseronto Archives - 183 items; Provincial Archives of Alberta - 177 items; Powerhouse Museum Collection - 170 items; UW Digital Collections - 123 items; National Library NZ on The Commons - 123 items; UA Archives | Upper Arlington History - 114 items; National Library of Scotland - 105 items; Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest - 89 items; Australian War Memorial collection - 88 items; Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons - 78 items; National Archives of Estonia - 67 items; Museum of Photographic Arts Collections - 64 items; Stockholm Transport Museum Commons - 61 items; Liberas / Liberaal Archief - 59 items; National Museum of Denmark - 55 items; Costică Acsinte Archive - 49 items; The Gallen-Kallela Museum - 46 items; Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle - 46 items; Museum of Hartlepool - 45 items; George Eastman Museum - 33 items; San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives - 32 items; The National Archives UK - 31 items; tyrrellhistoricallibrary - 29 items; Preus museum - 27 items; Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane - 21 items; OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons - 21 items; The Finnish Museum of Photography - 20 items; National Science and Media Museum - 17 items; Schlesinger Library, RIAS, Harvard University - 9 items; Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol - 7 items; Smithsonian Institution - 4 items; Getty Research Institute - 4 items; Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland - 4 items; The British Library - 2 items; Camden Public Library (Maine) - 2 items; Center for Jewish History, NYC - 1 items; Kalamazoo Public Library - 1 items; Aalto University Library and Archive Commons - 1 items;
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 website code and generated data is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please (subject to any restrictions as imposed by the content and toolset providers).
Lieutenant General William Bailey. Air Executive; Deputy Commanding Officer, 353rd Fighter Group. Assigned to 352FS, 353FG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to HQ Sqn, 353FG, 8AF USAAF. 186 x combat missions. Credited 3 x kills (air), 3 x kills (ground).
Awards: S
Died 14 January 2012
American Air Museum
Captain Harold Barnaby. Fighter Pilot, 78th Fighter Group. Assigned to 83FS, 78FG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to VIII Fighter Command. ETD.
Awards: SS, AM, WWII Victory, EAME.
Died 19 January 2012
American Air Museum
First Sergeant Edward Whaley. Top Turret Gunner, 466th Bomb Group. Shot down 8 April 1944 in B-24 #4252596 'Mammy Yokum. ' Prisoner of War (POW).
Heroically saved a fellow crewmate Philip Carroll. After Carroll was injured and unconscious due
Died 25 January 2012
American Air Museum
Second Lieutenant Richard Rozner. Co-Pilot, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 25 January 2012
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant Gerald Tucker. Right Waist Gunner, 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars. Sgt Gerald Tucker (whose first name is often misspelled Gerold) was Right Waist Gunner on B-17 #42-3119 when it was shot down on the Hamburg mission of 26 July 1943.
Died 17 January 2013
American Air Museum
Colonel Richard Baynes. Pilot, 466th Bomb Group. 35 missions. 6 gas hauling missions flying gas to Patton's army. Author of Replacement Crew in library.
Air Medal w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster/ DFC
Died 26 January 2013
American Air Museum
First Lieutenant Clifford Ellison. Pilot, 466th Bomb Group. 35 combat missions
AM w/ 4 Oak Leaf Cluster
Died 31 January 2013
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) Manfred Stein. Waist Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 5 January 2014
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant William Folmer. Gunner, 398th Bomb Group. B-17 gunner with Hells's Angels and flew 31 missions. Was shot down 3 times.
T/O Nuthampstead in B-17G #43-38129 in 28sept44, target Madgeburg, GE. Landed in Brussels (reason unknown) ,
Died 10 January 2014
American Air Museum
Second Lieutenant Frank Furiga. Bombardier/Navigator, 384th Bomb Group. Became POW on 30 November 1944 when, because of miscommunication, he bailed out over enemy territory.
Prisoner Of War
POW Camp: Stalag 9C Bad Sulza Saxe-Weimar 51-11
MACR 11111
Frank
Died 17 January 2014
American Air Museum
First Lieutenant Russell Swain. Pilot, 466th Bomb Group. Shot down 13 May 1944 in B-17 #4129391 'Little Lulu. ' Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Died 23 January 2014
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) Clyde Fauley. Nose Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 29 January 2014
American Air Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Donn Thompson. Bombardier, 466th Bomb Group. Bombardier on Crew 501. Towards end of combat tour was squadron Bombardier.
AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster/ DFC w/ Oak Leaf Cluster
Elected Mayor of Benton, LA in the 1970's
Died 30 January 2014
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant Leonard Hurley. Ball Turret Gunner, 305th Bomb Group Can Do. 33 sorties over occupied ETO.
A detailed biography can be found at :
http://carol_fus.tripod.com/army_ac_hero_ljhurley.html
DFC/ AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster
Died 9 January 2015
American Air Museum
First Lieutenant Harry Freivogel. Navigator. B24. 2nd Air Division, 448th Bomb Group, 714 Bomb Squadron, 29 complete missions, 446th Bomb Group. After marriage in 1941, Harry enlisted for the draft, and in his own words " being patriotic or probably
Died 10 January 2015
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant William Vermillion. Radio Operator, 323rd Bomb Group. Killed in Action (KIA) B-26C 41-35000. On mission to V-1 target near Devres, FR a direct flak hit near the left engine forced crew to bail-out. Losses of 9th AF indicates Vermillion was
Died 12 January 2015
American Air Museum
Staff Sergeant Frank Perez. Ball Turret Gunner, 401st Bomb Group. From 4 April 1944 to 7 October 1944, he flew 32 missions as a Ball Turret Gunner. On 6 June 1944, D-Day he and his crew flew to Caen, in order to bomb a nearby airfield. However, cloud cove
Died 16 January 2015
American Air Museum
Flight Officer Henry Ayon. Pilot, 4th Fighter Group. Assigned to 336FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF.
Post War: Served as a Sergeant in the US Army for 22 years. He retired with honors with the highest rank of a noncommissioned officer. In 1970, he and his family retu
Died 21 January 2015
American Air Museum