blood red skies messerschmitt me 262 ace walter nowotnyWalter Nowotny (7 December 1920 8 November 1944) was an Austrian born fighter ace of the Luftwaffe. Credited with 258 aerial victories over 442 combat missions. He achieved 255 of these victories over the Eastern Front whilst flying predominantly the Focke Wulf Fw 190 but also the Messerschmitt BF109. He scored an "ace in a day" on several occasions five enemy aircraft shot down in a single day. There were even two occurrences of "double ace in a day"