Very lights
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Twenty-five minutes after the attack began, green Very lights arched over the crest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Very lights, anti-aircraft shells flashed brightly above them.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
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 Victor Lefebure
On the 15th of September Captain L. E. O. Charlton fired Very lights over enemy guns previously observed.
From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
