Very lights
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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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Very lights, anti-aircraft shells flashed brightly above them.
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The whole horizon was alight with bursting shells and Very lights.
From Soldier Silhouettes on our Front by Stidger, William L. (William Le Roy)
Experiments were made with flags, with written messages carried back and dropped to the gunners, and finally with coloured Very lights.
From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
As he spoke, three green Very lights came from the cockpit of the plane.
From Astounding Stories, February, 1931 by Bates, Harry