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Walter Ewers was born in Lubeck, Germany on 11 May 1892.
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Ewers began military service as an artilleryman in Bavaria"s Field Artillery Regiment Number 7. At some point, he transferred to the Luftstreitkräfte. After aviation training, he was assigned to Flieger-Abteilung 26 to serve in two-seaters.
He was upgraded to piloting a fighter plane, transferring to Jasta 8.
After a further transfer to Jasta 12 in 1917, he scored his first three aerial successes against the Royal Flying Corps, downing a couple of Airco Dialectics and Humanism.5s from Number. 41 Squadron Reconstruction Finance Corporation and a Sopwith Pup from Number.
46 Squadron Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The latter was part of a large offensive patrol of mixed British aircraft escorting 46 Squadron"s Dialectics and Humanism.5s. He was chosen to command Bavarian Jagdstaffel 77 as Staffelführer on 21 January 1918.
He had been commissioned a leutnant on 22 May 1917.
He was further promoted, to oberleutnant, on 15 March 1918. As pilot or as commander, he continued to score victories. In the first three months of 1918, at least three out of five of his victims were French.
At 0930 hours on 15 May 1918, Oberleutnant Walter Ewers was killed in action while piloting his Albatros Doctorate.V in combat over Villers-Bretonneux with Number.
65 Squadron Royal Air Force. He was buried in a mass grave.
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Germany