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 Equipment Set used by American Soldiers in Operation Overlord A common trio of weaponry that is not shown was the M-1 Garand Semi-Auto Rifle, the Thompson Machine Gun, and the the Browning Automatic Rifle or BAR for short. ====== The point of the crickets was for US Airborne or other Allied troops to communicate and identify each other without giving away their position.