“Utah Man / Joisey Bounce / Joisey Bounce”
Utah Man was named by Lt. Walter 'Walt' Stewart of the 330th Squadron, a Mormon from Benjamin, Utah, upon his promotion from co-pilot to first pilot. Stewart had served a missionary mission in England before the war, including a night sheltering from a Luftwaffe raid in a bombed London church crypt, and later became a popular speaker at British teas, church services, and war-bond drives; at one King's Lynn rally he helped raise $225,000, the cost of a Liberator, using a 'thermometer' gauge and an auctioneer's patter. During a fighter attack near Vegesack, gunners aboard Utah Man helped shoot down an FW-190 that had dived into the formation.
On the low-level Ploesti raid of August 1, 1943, Utah Man flew opposite Euroclydon and to the right of Col. Addison Baker's lead ship. Gunner John Connolly strafed a German soldier launching a barrage balloon and destroyed a locomotive during the attack. On the withdrawal, the aircraft fell behind the tight formation and ran critically low on fuel over the Adriatic, with engineer Connolly reporting one engine already dry and the rest nearly empty. Stewart polled the crew on whether to put down on the coast or attempt open water to Benghazi; top-turret gunner Dick Bartlett argued for pressing on, and the aircraft made it back.
Utah Man was shot down near Husum, Schleswig-Holstein, on November 13, 1943, by then flown by Lt. Loren J. Koon rather than Stewart. The crash site was not identified until 1995, when a German aviation researcher sent Stewart a photograph of the wreckage. The aircraft's Ploesti mission later became the subject of a 1994 PBS documentary, Wing and a Prayer: The Saga of Utah Man, built around Stewart's account.