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bandiera a lampo di colore

English translation: Semaphore flags

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Italian term or phrase:bandiera a lampo di colore
English translation:Semaphore flags
Entered by: Gad Kohenov

15:37 Oct 24, 2009
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Military / Defense
Italian term or phrase: bandiera a lampo di colore
Here again, a former (so perhaps not "permanent") soldier is speaking:

Sono segnalatore con la bandiera a lampo di colore, operiamo nella zona del Colle della Maddalena.

It's a kind of signaling and communication system that apparently uses a flag with two colors. Does anybody know what it might be called in English? "A color-flash flag" doesn't really sound right to me.
JoFP
Local time: 03:27
Semaphore flags
Explanation:
books.google.co.il/books?isbn=1851097325...
I was wrong the first time. Here they speak of a red flag and a white flag. Interesting article.
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Gad Kohenov
Israel
Local time: 04:27
Grading comment
My flag is only one, and it's not like the flags in your link, but the idea is the same.

Thanks.
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Summary of answers provided
3Semaphore flags
Gad Kohenov
Summary of reference entries provided
Two references for eliografo / heliograph
Russell Jones

  

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Semaphore flags


Explanation:
books.google.co.il/books?isbn=1851097325...
I was wrong the first time. Here they speak of a red flag and a white flag. Interesting article.

Gad Kohenov
Israel
Local time: 04:27
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in HebrewHebrew
PRO pts in category: 48
Grading comment
My flag is only one, and it's not like the flags in your link, but the idea is the same.

Thanks.
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Reference: Two references for eliografo / heliograph

Reference information:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LEOTU51riW4C&pg=PA20&lpg=...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliograph

Russell Jones
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12
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