Walter Nowotny | Timeline

Major Walter "Nowi" Nowotny (7 December 1920 – 8 November 1944) was an Austrian-born German fighter ace of World War II. He is credited with 258 aerial victories—that is, 258 aerial combat encounters resulting in the destruction of the enemy aircraft—in 442 combat missions. Nowotny achieved 255 of these victories on the Eastern Front and three while flying one of the first jet fighters, the Messerschmitt Me 262, in the Defense of the Reich. He scored most of his victories in the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, and approximately 50 in the Messerschmitt Bf 109. (Wikipedia)

December 7, 1920 - Gmünd, Austria - Walter Nowotny is born
January(?) 1(?), 1925 - Schwarzenau - Nowotny family moves to Schwarzenau
August 1, 1936 - Berlin - Nowotny visits the 1936 Summer Olympics
May 1(?), 1938 - Laa an der Thaya - Receives diploma of Laa an der Thaya Secondary School
October 1, 1939 - Quedlinburg - Joins the Luftwaffe - begins training at the 2.Flieger-Ausbildungsregiment 62
November 16, 1939 - Breslau-Schöngarten - Continues training at Luftkriegschule 5
March 1, 1940 - Promoted to Fahnenjunker-Gefreiten
April 1, 1940 - Promoted to Fahnenjunker-Unteroffizier
July 1, 1940 - Promoted to Fähnrich
August 1, 1940 - Wien-Schwechat - Trains as a fighter pilot at the Jagdfliegerschule 5
August 19, 1940 - Wien-Schwechat - Completes pilot traning and receives the pilot badge =(START)
November 16, 1940 - Merseburg (S of Halle, W of Leipzig) - Transfered to I./Ergänzungs-Jagdgruppe Merseburg
December 1, 1940 - Cazaux (S of Toulouse, France) - posted to Ergänzungsstaffel of Jagdgeschwader 54 (Trautloft)
February 23, 1941 - Le Mans - Transfered to 9./JG 54
March 3, 1941 - Cherbourg-Querqueville - 9./JG 54 moves out
March 10, 1941 - Le Mans - 9./JG 54 moves out
March 29, 1941 - St.Dizier - 9./JG 54 moves out
April 1, 1941 - Wien-Parndorf - Promoted to Leutnant. 9./JG 54 moves out
April 4, 1941 - Arad - 9./JG 54 moves out
April 7, 1941 - Fünfkirchen (Pécs - Hungary)¨- 9./JG 54 moves out
April 13, 1941 - Deta-Arad (S of Timisoara?) - 9./JG 54 moves out
April 15, 1941 - Pancevo - 9./JG 54 moves out
April 20, 1941 - Belgrade-Semlin - 9./JG 54 moves out
April 28, 1941 - Bucharest - 9./JG 54 moves out
May 3, 1941 - Stolp-Rietz (W of Innsbruck) - 9./JG 54 moves out
June 20, 1941 - Blumenfeld - 9./JG 54 moves out
June 26, 1941 - Kedainiai - 9./JG 54 moves out
June 29, 1941 - Dünaburg - 9./JG 54 moves out
July 9, 1941 - Ostrow-Nord - 9./JG 54 moves out
July 19, 1941 - over Saaremaa (Base: Wereteni) - 2 kills (2 total) - shot down by Alexandr Avdeev - 9./JG 54 moves out
July 22, 1941 - Latvian Coast - after spending 3 days in a dinghy, once almost run down by a soviet destroyer, Nowotny reaches the coast
July 31, 1941 - ? - 1 victory (3 total)
August 6, 1941 - Nowosselje - 9./JG 54 moves out
August 8, 1941 - ? - 2 victories (5 total)
August 9, 1941 - ? - 1 victory (6 total)
August 13, 1941 - Gdow - 9./JG 54 moves out
August 17, 1941 - ? - 2 victories (8 total)
August 19, 1941 - ? - 1 victory (9 total)
August 21, 1941 - Wesenberg - 9./JG 54 moves out
August 26, 1941 - Sarudinje (Torma) - 9./JG 54 moves out
September 6, 1941 - Kotly - 9./JG 54 moves out
September 9, 1941 - Dno - 9./JG 54 moves out
September 12, 1941 - Siwerskaja - 9./JG 54 moves out (stay for a year)
September 13, 1941 - ? - 1 victory (10 total)
January 8, 1942 - South-Northwest Morja - 2 victories (12 total)
April 25, 1942 - ? - 1 victory (13 total)
April 26, 1942 - ? - 1 victory (14 total)
April 30, 1942 - ? - 1 victory (15 total)
May 11, 1942 - ? - 1 victory (16 total)
May 13, 1942 - ? - 1 victory (17 total)
May 16, 1942 - ? - 2 victories (19 total)
May 28, 1942 - ? - 1 victory (20 total)
June 6, 1942 - ? - 1 victory (21 total)
June 7, 1942 - ? - 1 victory (22 total)
June 9, 1942 - ? - 2 victories (24 total)
June 11, 1942 - ? - 1 victory (25 total)
June 25, 1942 - ? - 1 victory (26 total)
June 26, 1942 - ? - 3 victories (29 total)
July 11, 1942 - over Wolchow bridgehead - 2 victories (31 total)
July 14, 1942 - Siwerskaja - Earns the luftwaffe Honor Goblet
July 20, 1942 - ? - 5 victories!!! (36 total)
July 21, 1942 - ? - 1 victory (37 total)
July 23, 1942 - ? - 3 victories (40 total)
July 25, 1942 - ? - 2 victories (42 total)
July 26, 1942 - ? - 3 victories (45 total)
July 28, 1942 - ? - 2 victories (47 total)
August 2, 1942 - ? - 7 victories!!! (54 total)
August 7, 1942 - ? - 2 victories (56 total)
August 11, 1942 - ? - 1 victory (57 total)
September 4, 1942 - Siwerskaja - Awarded the Knights Cross
September(?) 12(?), 1942 - Vienna, Austria - Home leave
October 25, 1942 - Krasnowardeisk - becomes Staffelkapitän of 1./JG 54
November 8, 1942 - ? - 2 victories (59 total)
December 10, 1942 - ? - 2 victories (61 total)
January 7, 1943 - ? - 1 victory (62 total)
February 1, 1943 - Heiligenbeil - In their new FW190's, Nowotny, Schnörrer, Döbele and Rademacher form the "Teufelskette" (Chain of Devils) or Nowotny Schwarm - credited with 524 victories (most successful of the Luftwaffe
March 2, 1943 - ? - 1 victory (63 total)
March 7, 1943 - ? - 2 victories (65 total)
March 9, 1943 - ? - 2 victories (67 total)
March 14, 1943 - ? - 2 victories (69 total)
March 15, 1943 - ? - 3 victories (72 total)
March 19, 1943 - ? - 2 victories (74 total)
March 20, 1943 - ? - 1 victory (75 total)
March 22, 1943 - ? - 3 victories (78 total)
March 26, 1943 - ? - 1 victory (79 total)
April 3, 1943 - ? - 2 victories (81 total)
May 6, 1943 - ? - 1 victory (82 total)
May 27, 1943 - ? - 1 victory (83 total)
June 1, 1943 - Orel - 5 victories (88 total) - 1./JG 54 moves out
June 5, 1943 - ? - 4 victories (92 total)
June 8, 1943 - ? - 6 victories!!! (98 total)
June 15, 1943 - ? - 3 victories (101 total)
June 17, 1943 - ? - 3 victories (104 total)
June 18, 1943 - ? - 1 victory (105 total)
June 19, 1943 - ? - 3 victories (108 total)
June 21, 1943 - ? - 6 victories!!! (114 total)
June 24, 1943 - ? - 10 victories!!! (124 total)
August 9, 1943 - ? - Awarded the Knights Cross with Oakleaves
August 12, 1943 - ? - 4 victories (128 total)
August 13, 1943 - ? - 9 victories!!! (137 total)
August 14, 1943 - ? - 3 victories (140 total)
August 15, 1943 - ? - 3 victories (143 total)
August 16, 1943 - ? - 2 victories (145 total)
August 18, 1943 - ? - 6 victories!!! (151 total)
August 19, 1943 - ? - 3 victories (154 total)
August 21, 1943 - ? - 7 victories!!! (161 total) - made Gruppenkommandeur of I./JG 54
August 23, 1943 - ? - 2 victories (163 total)
August 24, 1943 - ? - 3 victories (166 total)
August 25, 1943 - ? - 1 victory (167 total)
August 29, 1943 - ? - 3 victories (170 total)
August 31, 1943 - ? - 3 victories (173 total)
September 1, 1943 - ? - 10 victories!!! (183 total)
September 2, 1943 - ? - 6 victories!!! (189 total)
September 5, 1943 - 1 victory (190 total)
September 6, 1943 - 2 victories (192 total)
September 7, 1943 - 3 victories (195 total)
September 8, 1943 - 5 victories!!! (200 total)
September 10, 1943 - 1 victory (201 total)
September 11, 1943 - 2 victories (203 total)
September 14, 1943 - 6 victories!!! (209 total)
September 15, 1943 - 6 victories!!! (215 total)
September 17, 1943 - 3 victories (218 total) - Awarded the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
September 21, 1943 - Promoted to Hauptmann
September 22, 1943 - Führerhauptquartier, Rastenburg-East Prussia - Receives the Swords from Hitler himself (planned Oak leaves ceremony becomes "swords ceremony")
October 5, 1943 - over Chernobyl - 1 victory (219 total)
October 7, 1943 - Southeast of Woschiwka - 4 victories (223 total)
October 9, 1943 - S-SE Nevel, Krutiki, Kossedenye, Lyuchkovo - 8 victories!!! (231 total)
October 11, 1943 - Volch'i Gory, Frolovo, Drui, Gorovotka - 4 victories (235 total)
October 12, 1943 - SE Lenin, NE Gorki - 3 victories (238 total)
October 13, 1943 - over Lenin - 6 victories!!! (244 total)
October 14, 1943 - S of Lyadoff, over Markovo, Bayevo, N of Tsukino - 6 victories!!! (250 total). While celebrating in the Ria Bar, Nowotny receives a phonecall from Hitler, awarding him the Diamonds
October 19, 1943 - Wolfsschanze, Rastenburg - East Prussia - Nowotny receives the diamonds from Hitler himself
October 29, 1943 - ? - Nowotny gives the Knights Cross to Otto Kittel
November 5, 1943 - E Chernoye / S Sanessno-see - 2 victories (252 total)
November 10, 1943 - E of Nosikovo (Pskov area) - 2 victories (254 total)
November 12, 1943 - over Spavessno-sees - 1 victory (255 total)
December 1(?), 1943 - ? - Nowotny is sent on a propaganda Tour in Germany
December 7, 1943 - ? - Nowotny awards the Ritterkreuz des Kriegsverdienstkreuzes to Railroad engineer August Kindervater
December 20(?), 1943 - Bad Eilsen - Visits the Focke-Wulf production site. Meets Professor Kurt Tank
January 11, 1944 - Vienna, Austria - Hanns Blaschke, mayor of Vienna, awards Nowotny the city's ring of honor
January(?) 20(?), 1944 - Zella-Mehlis - official visit to Büromaschinenfabrik (office machinery factory)
April 1(?), 1944 - Pau, Southern France - Nowotny is made Gerschwaderkommodore of JG 101 and commander of Jagsfliegerschule 1 - a lufwaffe fighter training school
September 1(?), 1944 - Achmer - Reinstated to front-line service. Commander of "Kommando Nowotny"
October 7, 1944 - NW of Bramsche - 1 victory (256 total)
November 8, 1944 - Epe, E of Hesepe - 2 victories (258 total) - reports 1 engine failing and fire. Not entirely clear if he is shot down, but he is killed =(END)