Otto Kittel flew 583 combat missions and scored 267 kills, 94 of them Il-2's, making him the fourth highest scoring ace of all time, the highest scoring in JG 54 and the highest scoring Focke-Wulf 190 ace. He started the war as Unteroffizier and died as a Staffelkapitan of 2./JG 54.Kittel was killed on 14 February 1945 (his 583rd mission), over Courland, by an Ilyushin Il-2 pilot. Fighter Pilot, Fighter Planes, Fighter Jets, Erich Hartmann, Focke Wulf 190, Luftwaffe Pilot, Germany Ww2, Messerschmitt, German Army