A Year After Armistice: French Pilot Jacques Trolley de Prévaux’s Airship Flight Over WWI’s Devastated Battlefields Offered a Unique Aerial View of the Battlefields, Where Millions Have Died. (Colorized and upscaled)
A Year After Armistice: French Pilot Jacques Trolley de Prévaux’s Airship Flight Over WWI’s Devastated Battlefields Offered a Unique Aerial View of the Battlefields, Where Millions Have Died. (Colorized and upscaled)
Unbelievable. This one evokes some emotion. Hard not to think of Ukraine when seeing this, and how this is still happening to cities. Also seeing this and knowing what happened a few years later in WW2
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Biggles: Adventures in Time!
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This is why world leaders need to be held accountable.
Anyone responsible for any conflict should be the first on the battlefield and the last to leave.
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Quite the story about the guy flying this – I hope it’s okay to quote from the youtube channel description:
“…In a 2010 BBC documentary presented by Fergal Keane called The First World War From Above, the world finally got to see the footage. Trolley de Prévaux’s daughter, Aude Yung-de Prévaux, who had tragically never known her parents nor even seen an image of them, finally got to see her father in this remarkable film.
Trolley de Prévaux and his wife, Lotka Leitner, were a formidable team in the Resistance. Lotka was actively involved in delivering documents and sheltering individuals, while Jacques operated under the cover of a traveling shopkeeper, ostensibly displaying and selling goods.
Their courageous efforts, however, led to their eventual betrayal and arrest by the Gestapo in Marseille in March 1944.
On August 19, 1944, just as the Allies were liberating Paris, Jacques Trolley de Prévaux and his wife Lotka were executed at Bron. Both were posthumously and jointly recognized as Compagnons in the Ordre de la Libération, a testament to their extraordinary sacrifice for France….”
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This is bloody awesome!!
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No trees….
Gotbeerbrain on
War is such a horrible waste. Imagine the planet we could have without war. The military-industrial complex is the virus that keeps this shit going.
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Great soundtrack with the film footage.
Mrteamtacticala on
Al Stewart – Fields of France
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Never seen this before, incredible footage from such an early era. Very sad to hear of the their execution during yet another World War. Those people born around the turn of the century lived incredible lives, seeing the rise of automobiles, airplanes, 2 World Wars, space craft and atomic power. Nobody else has come close to experiencing what that generation has.
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All I can think is…’We did this to *ourselves.’*
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“A bomb for you, a bomb for you, a wedge of Brie for moi. Bonne nuit krauts!”
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People say houses are haunted what about battlefields? Do ghost hunters visit places of mass death? Probably not as its all a sham anyway.
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Are the light coloured areas filled in trenches?
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Just drove by Metz and Verdun a couple of days ago on the main highway from Luxembourg to Paris. So green and peaceful. Looks just like that old Windows wallpaper. Kept wondering if I were to walk out onto any of those fields with a metal detector how long would it be before I started digging up old bullets. 30 seconds?
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And so when people blame the leaders of Europe for not being willing to go to war against the Nazi’s earlier than 1938, they are forgetting that the horrors of WW1 still say fresh in the minds of most Europeans.
They knew the cost of war and the destruction it would bring. And so it was again with WW2.
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Weird to think of all the liters of blood soaked into the earth at these places. I thought the same when I visited Gettysburg. I’m an atheist but it’s almost as if you can feel the haunting presence of death. I really feel that these places that have experienced ultraviolence have become “tainted” in some manner.
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Thanks for sharing. I’m French and has never seen this. Especially resonates as we celebrated the end of the war yesterday (11 November).
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WHOA. This is incredible.
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anyone know what hes flying? it says airship and for some reason i figured it would be slow but this thing is banking pretty hard and cruzin.
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War sucks. I hate having a POTUS who seems to equate greatness with conflict and conquest. We humans are so slow to learn.
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Anyone knows which area he’s flying above ?
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The best war show on par with band of brothers will be a WW1 based series showcasing the brutal street to street fighting of WW1 I guarantee it.
Having said that, I’m surprised there hasn’t been one already. There’s so much potential but engaging and meaningful stories that just… Aren’t done.
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Source: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si3DkcUItb8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si3DkcUItb8)
There are still parts of France where no one is allowed to go because of unexploded ordinance and chemical residue from the gas.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_rouge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_rouge)
Unbelievable. This one evokes some emotion. Hard not to think of Ukraine when seeing this, and how this is still happening to cities. Also seeing this and knowing what happened a few years later in WW2
Biggles: Adventures in Time!
This is why world leaders need to be held accountable.
Anyone responsible for any conflict should be the first on the battlefield and the last to leave.
Quite the story about the guy flying this – I hope it’s okay to quote from the youtube channel description:
“…In a 2010 BBC documentary presented by Fergal Keane called The First World War From Above, the world finally got to see the footage. Trolley de Prévaux’s daughter, Aude Yung-de Prévaux, who had tragically never known her parents nor even seen an image of them, finally got to see her father in this remarkable film.
Trolley de Prévaux and his wife, Lotka Leitner, were a formidable team in the Resistance. Lotka was actively involved in delivering documents and sheltering individuals, while Jacques operated under the cover of a traveling shopkeeper, ostensibly displaying and selling goods.
Their courageous efforts, however, led to their eventual betrayal and arrest by the Gestapo in Marseille in March 1944.
On August 19, 1944, just as the Allies were liberating Paris, Jacques Trolley de Prévaux and his wife Lotka were executed at Bron. Both were posthumously and jointly recognized as Compagnons in the Ordre de la Libération, a testament to their extraordinary sacrifice for France….”
This is bloody awesome!!
No trees….
War is such a horrible waste. Imagine the planet we could have without war. The military-industrial complex is the virus that keeps this shit going.
Great soundtrack with the film footage.
Al Stewart – Fields of France
Never seen this before, incredible footage from such an early era. Very sad to hear of the their execution during yet another World War. Those people born around the turn of the century lived incredible lives, seeing the rise of automobiles, airplanes, 2 World Wars, space craft and atomic power. Nobody else has come close to experiencing what that generation has.
All I can think is…’We did this to *ourselves.’*
“A bomb for you, a bomb for you, a wedge of Brie for moi. Bonne nuit krauts!”
People say houses are haunted what about battlefields? Do ghost hunters visit places of mass death? Probably not as its all a sham anyway.
Are the light coloured areas filled in trenches?
Just drove by Metz and Verdun a couple of days ago on the main highway from Luxembourg to Paris. So green and peaceful. Looks just like that old Windows wallpaper. Kept wondering if I were to walk out onto any of those fields with a metal detector how long would it be before I started digging up old bullets. 30 seconds?
And so when people blame the leaders of Europe for not being willing to go to war against the Nazi’s earlier than 1938, they are forgetting that the horrors of WW1 still say fresh in the minds of most Europeans.
They knew the cost of war and the destruction it would bring. And so it was again with WW2.
Weird to think of all the liters of blood soaked into the earth at these places. I thought the same when I visited Gettysburg. I’m an atheist but it’s almost as if you can feel the haunting presence of death. I really feel that these places that have experienced ultraviolence have become “tainted” in some manner.
Thanks for sharing. I’m French and has never seen this. Especially resonates as we celebrated the end of the war yesterday (11 November).
WHOA. This is incredible.
anyone know what hes flying? it says airship and for some reason i figured it would be slow but this thing is banking pretty hard and cruzin.
War sucks. I hate having a POTUS who seems to equate greatness with conflict and conquest. We humans are so slow to learn.
Anyone knows which area he’s flying above ?
The best war show on par with band of brothers will be a WW1 based series showcasing the brutal street to street fighting of WW1 I guarantee it.
Having said that, I’m surprised there hasn’t been one already. There’s so much potential but engaging and meaningful stories that just… Aren’t done.
Ukraine today
Wow
AI, the gages aren’t active,