Enjoy! 16 years talking about USN/USMC pilots from WW2 on this forum... if you have any questions feel free to ask in this thread ⤴️

Hi everyone, I don't quite fit the usual mould of the B2K USMC owner, being across the pond and all, but I got my hands on a few of these here in Solingen in a dusty storage facility (traceable straight back to Eickhorn) not too long ago :) I greatly appreciate the breadth and depth of information presented in this thread. To be frank, I don't think anybody at Eickhorn is as "informed" on the topic as this, given the tremendous churn the business has experienced (with the Eickhorn Family exiting during the 2004 insolvency, mostly due to the [financial misconduct related] jailing of Rolf Eickhorn). To my knowledge, only one current Eickhorn employee was at the business in 2001.   5 marked as "Made in USA", the other with a different style engraving and "Made in Germany", likely an even earlier model.   Greetings from the City of Blades! Edit: Just a quick addon, based on someone here trying to track down where these actually are. As far as I know, Eickhorn has more of the Made in USA models in their warehouse, somewhere in the single digits, I think it was 7 pcs, but it might have been slightly more.  

Hi everyone, I don't quite fit the usual mould of the B2K USMC owner, being across the pond and all, but I got my hands on a few of these here in Solingen in a dusty storage facility (traceable straight back to Eickhorn) not too long ago :) I greatly appreciate the breadth and depth of information presented in this thread. To be frank, I don't think anybody at Eickhorn is as "informed" on the topic as this, given the tremendous churn the business has experienced (with the Eickhorn Family exiting during the 2004 insolvency, mostly due to the [financial misconduct related] jailing of Rolf Eickhorn)   5 marked as "Made in USA", the other with a different style engraving and "Made in Germany", likely an even earlier model.   Greetings from the City of Blades!  

Hi mate As in full colour insignia, white name tapes and black and gold US Army tapes like this on a first pattern jacket? yes, for sure, you'll see similar set ups , from memory all the first patterns I've had/still have or have seen, have been a mix of white on tan jump wings with full colour insignia and a few subdued jump wings and name tapes with full colour insignia. 

Very good, once I get some of it photographed, I'll hit you up. Not sure how this works on here. If we're allowed to just PM directly or not. Heard I'm required to have 30 posts or messages before I can do so. Not sure how that works.

That's good! Can't believe that the fires are still going on in select areas. Crazy.

1921 is when the "new" style expert qualification badge, still used today, was adopted.

Quite awesome, that is exactly what I have been looking for thank you

Thanks Jerry, much appreciated

I’m originally from S. Jersey and now just live across the Delaware in Pa. I love paper and military photography and have been collecting it for a long time. Definitely interested to learn more! Paul