decoy-lights

Updated: May 3, 2025

Directly below them the land had become black again, specked only by little points of light, yellow, ruddy, white; some of these, like the lights behind the French lines, perhaps marked hamlets, encampments; others were mere decoy-lights; others they showed but for the briefest second when the biplane passed overhead were the guiding lights for the French and American pilots.

Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes - The Boy Allies with Haig in Flanders : Or, the Fighting Canadians of Vimy Ridge