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Fort Douaumont, before and after the Battle of Verdun, WW1, 1915-1916 (media.kbin.social)
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[-] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I didn't realize USA had such good surveillance satellites up in the 1900s

[-] pageflight@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

Actually a lot of Google "satellite" imagery is from planes, as I assume this is.

[-] pythonoob@programming.dev 10 points 7 months ago

Or a balloon, which they used in ww1 for observation

[-] pageflight@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Some fascinating history, thanks for the note!

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

They called them 'birds' back then

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