Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Oberfeldwebel (Flight Sergeant)

Unit:

6. Staffel, II. Gruppe, Schnellkampfgeschwader 10, Luftwaffe

Awarded on:

November 25th, 1943

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Oberfeldwebel (Flight Sergeant)

Unit:

Flugzeugführer, 9.Staffel, III. Gruppe, Schlachtgeschwader 4, Luftwaffe

Awarded on:

June 9th, 1944

Awarded the Knight’s Cross after flying about 400 combat sorties. The following newspaper excerpt further details his Knight’s Cross related successes…

“The Führer has awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross to Oberfeldwebel Karl Golles, pilot in a Schlachtgeschwader, at the recommendation of the supreme commander of the Luftwaffe, Reichsmarschall Göring. Karl Golles, born as the son of locomotive stoker Robert G. on the 13.10.1917 in Zwickau, holds the profession of railway metalworker. He has outstandingly distinguished himself in the Western campaign, in battle against the Soviet Union, in the Mediterranean area and on the Italian front as a transport, destroyer, fast bomber and ground attack pilot. As a brave soldier and cunning flyer he has destroyed large quantities of all manner of enemy war materiel. Furthermore, among other things, he set afire an 8000 GRT tanker as well as a freighter and shot down 4 enemy aircraft.”