parachute flare

A moment later parachute flares began turning night to day.

Parachute flares from a C-47 lighting up part of the sky.

These are still available and more recent longer barrel models can also fire parachute flares.

Someone somewhere fired off a parachute flare, but nothing developed from it.

She told him about the incident with the gas bottle and the parachute flare.

On the southern bank, men scattered, firing at the parachute flare.

I searched through their huge box of fireworks and found a parachute flare.

The parachute flare overhead began to burn out and the land became darker.

Five minutes more and they saw a parachute flare blossom to the east and north.

In addition, two smaller parachute flares could be carried to allow emergency landings at night.

A ship heading west passes too far away to see my next-to-last parachute flare.

In the darkness a parachute flare floated upward with a hiss.

Parachute flares were being dropped from an unseen aircraft orbiting to the south of us.

Parachute flares lit up Berlin like an air raid.

He got into position just as the mortars put up a parachute flare that hung over the camp like a white rose of fire.

The sky was ablaze: star shells, rocket clusters, parachute flares.

A parachute flare, she said to herself.

They had one or two rehearsals of the photography, using a parachute flare, and then they were ready.

They also come in two main types, cluster flares and parachute flares.

Other units ceased using parachute flares and opted for explosive target markers.

She stuffed the pistol from the chart room under one arm, walked back to the bridge, reading the instructions on the parachute flares.

These were marked out by parachute flares.

I now have only two meteor, two smoke, and two parachute flares left.

Suddenly a half-dozen smoking, parachuting flares were drifting from the sky like burning blossoms.