Very lights
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Very lights, anti-aircraft shells flashed brightly above them.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Twenty-five minutes after the attack began, green Very lights arched over the crest.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The sudden turning of darkness into day by enemy Very lights imposed instantaneous immobility.
From The Riddle of the Rhine; chemical strategy in peace and war by Lefebure, Victor
Almost immediately red Very lights went up within a stone's-throw as it seemed to me.
From Pushed and the Return Push by Nichols, George Herbert Fosdike
The whole horizon was alight with bursting shells and Very lights.
From Soldier Silhouettes on our Front by Stidger, William L. (William Le Roy)