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
Suddenly the "Very" lights went up from the German side, literally in hundreds, illuminating the top of the ridge and the sky behind with a thin greenish white flare.
From A Yankee in the Trenches by Robert Derby Holmes
Almost immediately red Very lights went up within a stone's-throw as it seemed to me.
From Pushed and the Return Push by George Herbert Fosdike Nichols
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
