Karl Scharon

Background

Karl Scharon was born on 15 May 1892.

Career

He first came to notice when he was flying a Fokker Doctorate.VII for Marine Feld Jagdstaffel 2. The German naval fighter squadron was based at Jabbeke, Belgium. Scharon was promoted to Vizefeldmeister on 16 August 1918.

Scharon scored his first aerial victory on 20 September 1918, when he shot down a Sopwith Camel from Number.

204 Squadron Royal Air Force over Pervyse at 1005 hours. On 7 October, he downed another Camel south of Blankenberghe, Belgium along with an Airco Dialectics and Humanism.9.

He then destroyed a third Camel on 14 October over Roeselare, and a Sopwith Dolphin the following day, running his total to five. He was credited with an "enemy aircraft" for his next victory, date and location uncertain.

Then he shot down a Camel from 204 Squadron on both 23 and 27 October 1918, running his tally to eight.

He perished on 26 May 1921.

Achievements

• Scharon survived the war, having been awarded the Iron Cross First Class, and joined in the postwar fighting by joining the Marine Freikorps in Latvia and other Baltic nations.