I just use a combination of the Zoom in, Zoom Out, Rotate Left, Rotate Right, Backward, Forward, pitch up, pitch down controls in the top right hand screen on Google earth. The 'little man' in between the movement controls can be dropped on the landscape to get a ground view.
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