After nightfall, two Apache helicopter gunships strafed suspected guerrilla infiltration trails in the hills facing the zone's eastern sector for five minutes by the light of parachute flares.
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The tracking station had planned to release balloons for a pilot observation experiment, but instead the ship fired star-shell parachute flares as " Friendship 7 " passed overhead.
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Almost every night, there's a light show, with red and white dots _-aircraft of some kind _-streaking across the sky, making sharp U-turns, and often dropping parachute flares.
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At 23 : 22, parachute flares from Japanese planes silhouetted the carrier, and 10 minutes later she was hit by a torpedo on the starboard side, knocking out her steering gear.
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The Mujahideen learned to move mostly at night to avoid the gunships, and in response the Soviets trained their Mi-24 crews in night-fighting, dropping parachute flares to illuminate potential targets for attack.
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The helicopter attacks, staged under parachute flares, followed two hours of thunderous mock raids by low-flying Israeli fighter jets that sent thousands of panicky residents rushing for shelter in basements, said the sources.
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The Rangers had asked to enter the facility to search for items relating to pyrotechnic tear-gas devices fired by the FBI . Rangers instead discovered the spent remains of a star parachute flare.
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On 11 / 12 February 1943 against Wilhelmshaven, the PFF used their H2S radar for the first time, dropping parachute flares above the heavy cloud cover in a technique known as " sky marking ".
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The British marked the target by parachute flares using H2S . The naval ammunition depot at Mariensiel to the south of Wilhelmshaven blew up and caused widespread damage in the naval dockyard and in the town.
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Stored on the runways and in the buildings, were 250 lb ., 500 lb ., 2000 lb ., and 4, 00 lb . bombs, balloon cable cutting cartridges, depth charges, 7-inch parachute flares and German ammunition.
