D day criquet

[HJ-Collector]

heres a nice little contraption was a present form my father a few years back from a motorcycle run to normandie beaches.

can anyone give me any info on it? was made for signiling to each other? sure would like a original one anybody got one to show original or otherwise?

ade sorry if this is in the wrong place

cheers ewan

[gooseandspoons]

here is a link of some original crickets Equipment

[drago1983]

Hi Ewan,
I have one too, i like it..
I saw one original on one of the museums in Normandy, it is a little bit different
If I'm not wrong, during the D-Day the paras used one "clik" as question, the right answer was a double "click"...just like the code words flash and thunder

Davide

[HJ-Collector]

guys cheers for the infos and link

[Soldierblu]

You can still buy those in Normandy area... When I was there for the 60th I remember seeing them for sale even in the petrol stations... and they were really frighteningly accurate and very cheap.

[Auseklis]

You can still buy those in Normandy area... When I was there for the 60th I remember seeing them for sale even in the petrol stations... and they were really frighteningly accurate and very cheap.

I was there also then... (and will be back for the 70th).
I purchased two of them, but only one is working properly. Cheap trash made in Ch*na

[andysod]

Heres a link ewan to a firm that makes these now, they are made on the same machines in the same Birmingham UK factory that made them originally in WW2. I have one and they are extremely well made and work perfectly, link....WW2 Airborne Cricket 101st Airborne Clicker

[HJ-Collector]

hey thanks for the link mate the one i have from france works like it should and is made well enough a good present if you ask me

[Soldierblu]

Great link thanks as well!

[Woolgar]

If you watch the film 'The Longest Day', you will see this item used and demonstrated several times!

Right up to the point where a GI hears a German cocking his rifle and he thinks it a clicker..bang!

Nick