D Day Cricket For Sale. Airborne crickets ww2 101st airborne cricket. Wwii d day cricket used by 101st and 82nd airborne paratroopers is an original authentic cricket issued in england to airborne paratroopers for the normandy d day invasion on june 6 1944.
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A single click on the clicker clacker allowed a soldier to ask someone in the dark if they were friend or foe. Berantly the airborne infantry cricket. Clickers were an excellent method of communicating without arousing german attention and also helping distinguish between friend and foe.
Thanks to the click clack of the cricket the american paratroopers of the 101st airborne could communicate with each other without being spotted by the german troops.
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