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)
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