 Nowotny 's military basic training began at the 2 . Flieger @-@ <unk> 62 in Quedlinburg ( 1 October 1939 – 15 November 1939 ) and continued at the <unk> 5 in Breslau @-@ <unk> ( 16 November 1939 – 30 June 1940 ) . He was promoted to Fahnenjunker @-@ <unk> on 1 March 1940 and shortly afterwards , on 1 April 1940 , to Fahnenjunker @-@ Unteroffizier . On 1 July 1940 , <unk> was promoted again , to the rank of Fähnrich . He completed his pilot training and received the Pilot Badge on 19 August 1940 . Nowotny also trained as a fighter pilot at the Jagdfliegerschule 5 in Wien @-@ Schwechat ( 1 August 1940 – 15 November 1940 ) , the same school that Hans @-@ Joachim Marseille had attended one year earlier . One of his teachers at the Jagdfliegerschule 5 was the Austro @-@ Hungarian World War I ace Julius <unk> . Here Nowotny befriended Karl Schnörrer and Paul Galland , the younger brother of General der Jagdflieger Adolf Galland . Paul Galland claimed 17 aerial victories with Jagdgeschwader 26 ( JG 26 ) on the channel front before he was shot down and killed by a Royal Air Force ( RAF ) Supermarine Spitfire on 31 October 1942 . After graduation from the Jagdfliegerschule 5 , Nowotny was transferred to the I. / Ergänzungs @-@ Jagdgruppe Merseburg on 16 November 1940 , flying fighter cover for the Leuna industrial works . 
