Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Ordered from the Joseph Hudson Company of Birmingham (today Acme Whistle) just weeks before the D-Day landings in 1944, the Acme 470 Clicker was used by men of the 101st Airborne Division in the first hours of the invasion as a simple and effective mean of Identification Friend or Foe (IFF). Though 7,000 were issued for the invasion, only a handful of combat-used examples survive today.
SOURCES:
itstactical.com/centcom/history-centcom/identification-friend-foe-wwii-cricket-clicker
itstactical.com/intellicom/tradecraft/the-language-of-espionage-signs-countersigns-and-recognition
acmewhistles.co.uk/stories/acme-whistles-locate-a-rare-original-lost-dday-clicker
atthefront.com/product-p/uspcrick.htm
dday-overlord.com/en/material/equipment/cricket
americanheritage.com/original-cricket-clicker-found-75th-anniversary-d-day
warfarehistorynetwork.com/the-airborne-infantry-cricket-dime-store-toy-becomes-d-day-legend
history.howstuffworks.com/world-war-ii/lost-clickers-d-day.htm
Ordered from the Joseph Hudson Company of Birmingham (today Acme Whistle) just weeks before the D-Day landings in 1944, the Acme 470 Clicker was used by men of the 101st Airborne Division in the first hours of the invasion as a simple and effective mean of Identification Friend or Foe (IFF). Though 7,000 were issued for the invasion, only a handful of combat-used examples survive today.
SOURCES:
itstactical.com/centcom/history-centcom/identification-friend-foe-wwii-cricket-clicker
itstactical.com/intellicom/tradecraft/the-language-of-espionage-signs-countersigns-and-recognition
acmewhistles.co.uk/stories/acme-whistles-locate-a-rare-original-lost-dday-clicker
atthefront.com/product-p/uspcrick.htm
dday-overlord.com/en/material/equipment/cricket
americanheritage.com/original-cricket-clicker-found-75th-anniversary-d-day
warfarehistorynetwork.com/the-airborne-infantry-cricket-dime-store-toy-becomes-d-day-legend
history.howstuffworks.com/world-war-ii/lost-clickers-d-day.htm
