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"The cunning searchlights haunt the midnight skies, / Where chains of emerald balls of fire rise, / To mingle with the spark of bursting shells -- / High in the darkness where the bomber dwells! / We know the meaning of the sudden glare / Of dazzling light which blossoms in the air: / For us the green and scarlet rockets blaze / And whisper urgent secrets through the haze. " / -- _The Night Raid._
From the aerodrome at Dunkerque five Short night-bombing machines were operating. These were large single-engined machines with a very long stretch of wings, and, apart from the Handley-Pages, were the biggest machines in use on the Western Front, and carried the heaviest weight of bombs.