Signal pistols with red and white lights, white-light parachute flares, or a smoke, distress-signalling apparatus completed the signalling equipment.
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There was no immediate report of casualties from the shelling, which began after dark with parachute flares illuminating the skies.
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The FO may end up getting parachute flares, white phosphorus illumination, DPICM, and VT-HE rounds on the target in the same shot.
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Under the light of parachute flares dropped by at least one Japanese floatplane, the Marines repulsed the first two attacks by Tamura's men.
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The newspaper said Texas Rangers discovered a star parachute flare while sifting through a storage facility Friday for missing pyrotechnic tear gas grenades.
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Parachute flares illuminated the sky over the targeted region, where the Iranian-backed Shiite MuslimHezbollah, or Party of God, has its main guerrilla bases.
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Parachute flares illuminated the sky over the targeted region, where the Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim Hezbollah, or Party of God, has its main guerrilla bases.
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A police statement said Israeli helicopter gunships made nightlong reconnaissance sorties over the region under parachute flares, drawing anti-aircraft fire from Lebanese army positions.
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They said two Israeli helicopter gunships strafed suspected infiltration trails in olive groves in several runs mounted under parachute flares that illuminated the region.
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The sparkling rescue-boat lights might have been from a night of partying off Long Island, and parachute flares created eerie ovals on the black water.
