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 Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

Anyhow for quite a spell afterwards they were very "windy" and would send up the "Very" lights on the slightest provocation and start the "typewriters" a-rattling.

From A Yankee in the Trenches by Holmes, Robert Derby

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