Restore the missing context

Help identify a photograph.

A face, place, date, aircraft, inscription, or family memory can reconnect an image to the historical record.

Children of the Doolittle Raiders archive

Restore the missing context

Good identification begins with specific evidence.

Tell us what you recognize, how you know it, and whether another document, photograph, or family source supports the identification. Uncertainty is welcome when it is labeled clearly.

Start an identification inquiry
01What you see

Name the exact person, object, or location.

Describe where it appears in the image and include any visible writing, uniforms, insignia, landmarks, or aircraft details.

02Why you believe it

Connect the identification to a source.

Family knowledge, reunion programs, marked prints, letters, service records, and comparison photographs can all help.

03What happens next

Submissions become leads, not instant facts.

The organization can compare the information against related archive records before changing a public caption.

From the recovered collection

The surviving visual record.

Continue into the photographic archive

Children of the Doolittle Raiders archive

Recovered from the formerly public legacy archive. Caption, date, credit, and identification review are continuing.