 For the rest of his combat career , Nowotny always wore the trousers ( German : Abschußhose roughly " shoot down pants " sometimes also referred to as " victory pants " ) that he had worn during those three days in the Gulf of Riga – with one exception , his last sortie , at Achmer on 8 November 1944 , when he was killed flying the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter . Nowotny quickly recovered from his ordeal and on 31 July claimed a Beriev MBR @-@ 2 flying boat north @-@ west of Saaremaa and an Ilyushin DB @-@ 3 bomber south of the island . 
