Into Dusk

**Simplex** · 26th October 2006, 10:22

Me again,

please tell me when i'm starting to get a PIA

To get this particular thread rolling again I'll contribute the result of my latest fooling too

This time it'S a 348th FS PTO Jug of the skin series I showed here before the crash/update.

P-47 348th FS, John Moore. Thanks to Lagarto and War_wolf for the help with references. Hats off!

regards.

**FARaveN** · 26th October 2006, 17:17

wow really nice stuff.... Im a fan!!

**adlabs6** · 26th October 2006, 20:17

Yep, looks like a nice aviation print.

**Simplex** · 14th November 2006, 13:24

Totally forgot to post the 2nd image of this set...

As the others they were originally only meant to give me raw shots for a mroe complex edit of a four ship PTO thunderbolt flight breaking away

**FrednGA** · 8th March 2008, 00:50

RE: Into The Dusk -- Maj. John Moore P-47 "Daring Dottie III"

I'm the nephew of Maj. John T. Moore. His wife was named Dorothy (Dottie). She was my father's sister. I believe they met at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama, where she lived until her death.

She died in 2001 and I found a box full of old records where she tried to find information about John Moore's last filght in Oct 1944. He and wingman Benz were on a two plane glide bombing mission when they ran into heavy weather clouds near Ceram Is. Moore radioed that he was descending through the clouds to try to break out down on the deck, below the cloud cover. Benz did a 360 turn (SOP to avoid a mid-air collision in the clouds) and descended. Benz never saw Moore again. He couldn't raise Moore on the radio. Benz never broke out of the clouds and returned to base.

My brother and I are trying to find old photographs of Moore's plane. You mention two references in your post, Lagarto and War_wolf. Did they provide photo or web links?

We are aware of the Corgi model, which blew us away. The model is missing one more rising sun kill flag on the left side of his cockpit, as Moore was officially credited with 7 kills and they have only 6. We do have an old photo of just the Daring Dottie III nose art, before the plane was painted in the distinctive camo pattern in your post and on the Corgi model. We found articles including Moore as a member of a flight with the famous Kearby and the dogfight that ensured against overwhelming odds.

I wish my aunt had seen your art before she died. She never re-married and was somewhat bitter about the cursory search effort the next day which ran into the same bad weather and couldn't complete a thorough search. In less than a month, Moore's Blackjack Squadron moved on to another island airbase closer to Japan. As a college history professor, (with a strong interest in aviation history), she understood the fluid dynamics of war overtaking and passing by the fate of one man, but it didn't make it any easier to accept the loss.

Again, thanks for the artwork and any info source direction you can provide.

Fred

**Simplex** · 10th March 2008, 23:02

Hello Fred,

please apologize my late reply. I've been away over the weekend. The curse of weekend relations...

Wow, I'm impressed. It's not too often relatives of former aces find our work here. Glad to did a convincing piece to keep the memory alive.

Lagarto and WW sent me scans of the particular plane from books. Unfortunately that was before I set up a new system and loosing quite a lot of reference material due to a misconfigured RAID controller.

I'll see what I still have, maybe I can at last retrieve the book's name.

Hats off,
Simplex

**Simplex** · 10th March 2008, 23:10

I found this scan from "Mustang and Thunderbolt Aces of the Pacific and CBI", Osprey Publishing. It's the only photo I got of Maj. Moore's plane

Maybe I can do a new artwork sporting his plane just as special piece of rememberance. Just needing some information about what to depict. The images above have been only made to illustrate the textures I painted.

Feel free to send me an email to 9thsimplex(at)gmx.de

Simplex

**rsvette12** · 27th November 2008, 20:18

1st shot is awesome, well done, the whole feel about it is great.

Regards, Rich

**shirley0222** · 9th August 2010, 06:37

Originally Posted by FrednGA

RE: Into The Dusk -- Maj. John Moore P-47 "Daring Dottie III"

I'm the nephew of Maj. John T. Moore. His wife was named Dorothy (Dottie). She was my father's sister. I believe they met at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama, where she lived until her death.

My brother and I are trying to find old photographs of Moore's plane. You mention two references in your post, Lagarto and War_wolf. Did they provide photo or web links?

Fred

Dear Fred,
John T. Moore was my uncle (my father, Jack Moore is his brother). Jack's children are David, Steven, Sylvia, and Shirley (me). We have some photos of John and Dottie and we might have some of the plane. One of my brothers created an album dedicated to John. My father is almost 90 and talks fondly of him to this day. We would be thrilled to connect with you and to share photos.
Your cousin,
Shirley Moore