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
Half a dozen Very lights went up in rapid succession: we were discovered!
From On the right of the British line by Nobbs, Gilbert
And there was no sight of the airplanes that Dick had just seen taking off from the invisible tarmac. ick fired two Very lights as a signal to his flight to scatter.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 by Various
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 Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
