In 1919, French Navy officer Jacques Trolley de Prévaux filmed the shattered landscapes of WWI from an airship, just months after the Armistice. His aerial footage showed the ruins of Ypres, cratered fields of Passchendaele, and trenches stretching across France and Belgium.A pioneer of naval aviation, Jacques used a motion picture camera aboard his dirigible to capture the destruction from above—making it one of the earliest aerial documentaries of war.The full 78-minute film was thought lost u

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