barrage balloon

Then they tried the barrage balloons, to no better effect.

The roof was made out of the material from barrage balloons.

Barrage balloons, up and down the length of the bridge.

High above the drifting trawler are three black barrage balloons.

Rose is carried away on a rope attached to a barrage balloon.

They found a runaway barrage balloon at twelve thousand feet and shot it down.

We looked out and he complained about the barrage balloons; then the planes flew past.

It was wartime and the boys called him Barrage Balloon.

It was now quite clear that barrage balloons were much more a hindrance than a help to London.

"Barrage balloons have cost the Lizards some of their aircraft.

Perhaps we should put up stacks of paper in place of barrage balloons.

In the Gosport area, 10 barrage balloons were shot down and two damaged.

They flew barrage balloons, commissioned perspectives and held a public inquiry.

Two other physicists stood mournfully at a silver barrage balloon.

Down-river, more barrage balloons than you could shake a stick at.

"I was five, but I remember the barrage balloons because they made my sister cry."

Many bombers were equipped with devices to cut barrage balloon cables.

Early vacuum bags were made from war surplus barrage balloon fabric.

The winch man was running out the cable, allowing the barrage balloon to rise.

Paul's against a lead-colored sky and the barrage balloons hanging over it.

Despite the presence of barrage balloons the refinery was successfully attacked.

Much of this work was with barrage balloons.

Large barrage balloons floated in silvery fleets above the cities.

Although its eventual explosion is often attributed to a burning barrage balloon, this fire was put out.

They looked very much like the hydrogen cylinders used for inflating barrage balloons.