![Photo identifications:
Crew of 42-98000 “Fightin’ Hebe” on 2 OCTOBER 1944 mission to Ford Motor Works at Cologne, Germany
Back row, left to right: Lyle Orin McKnight (waist gunner), Emmett Patrick Culhane (co-pilot), Stanley Milton Gilbert (pilot), and Noah Clarence Hickman (radio operator)
Front row, left to right: Marion Butler Chase (engineer/top turret gunner), Jack Vito Carella (tail gunner), and Erwin Vernon Foster (ball turret gunner)
Not pictured: Robert George McCarthy (navigator) and Charles Rinkovsky (bombardier)
Photo id’s confirmed by Cindy Farrar Bryan through other photos in the gallery and yearbook photos on Ancestry.com, 2021.
Back of photo:
Feb. 10, 1945
L.D. McKnight Waist Gunner
Pat Colhan Co-Pilot
S.M. Gilbert Pilot
N.C. Hickman Radioman
M.B. Chase Engineer
Jack Carella Tail Gunner
Irvin Foster Ball Gunner
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Not pictured
Rinkovski Bombardier
McCarthy Navigator
Roy Dobson Co-Pilot
The EM agree with the Gilbert crew for missions flown around the photo date. Officer Pat Colhan is unknown.
Contributed by Ben Chase, Marion Chase's son.
Stanley M. Gilbert Crew.jpg](_data/i/upload/2022/03/06/20220306161748-c5d1a68b-me.jpg)
Photo identifications:
Crew of 42-98000 “Fightin’ Hebe” on 2 OCTOBER 1944 mission to Ford Motor Works at Cologne, Germany
Back row, left to right: Lyle Orin McKnight (waist gunner), Emmett Patrick Culhane (co-pilot), Stanley Milton Gilbert (pilot), and Noah Clarence Hickman (radio operator)
Front row, left to right: Marion Butler Chase (engineer/top turret gunner), Jack Vito Carella (tail gunner), and Erwin Vernon Foster (ball turret gunner)
Not pictured: Robert George McCarthy (navigator) and Charles Rinkovsky (bombardier)
Photo id’s confirmed by Cindy Farrar Bryan through other photos in the gallery and yearbook photos on Ancestry.com, 2021.
Back of photo:
Feb. 10, 1945
L.D. McKnight Waist Gunner
Pat Colhan Co-Pilot
S.M. Gilbert Pilot
N.C. Hickman Radioman
M.B. Chase Engineer
Jack Carella Tail Gunner
Irvin Foster Ball Gunner
----------
Not pictured
Rinkovski Bombardier
McCarthy Navigator
Roy Dobson Co-Pilot
The EM agree with the Gilbert crew for missions flown around the photo date. Officer Pat Colhan is unknown.
Contributed by Ben Chase, Marion Chase's son.
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- Ben Chase
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