Donald Arthur Ivers                            Updated: 10 MAY 2021

Airman: a069015.htm Surname: Ivers Init: D A Rank: Sgt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 10

P_link: p116.htm Plane: HAL DT520 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Sea off Langeland

Crash_d: d011042 Buried_d: b171042 C_link: c069.htm At_Next: Odense

Den 1. oktober 1942 styrtede HAL DT520 i havet omkring her ud for Nordenbro, Langeland under et bombetogt til Flensborg. Hele besætningen omkom.

Den 14. oktober 1942 blev D. A. Ivers fundet drevet ind på kysten nær nedstyrtningsstedet.
H. E. Sullivan, D. Campbell og D. A. Ivers blev begravet i Odense den 17. oktober 1942. (AOD)
Sergeant (Air Gunner) Donald Arthur Ivers, 26 år, canadisk statsborger, var søn af John Henry og Yvonne Ivers; gift med Sally R. Platt Ivers, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
(Kilde: CWGC)
They Shall Grow Not Old: Fra Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Han var en af de mange Amerikanske flyvere, der var gået ind i RCAF.
Se
Americans In The RCAF.
379 af dem mistede livet - 8 af dem ses i www.airmen.dk + R.J. Dillon!

5 af de 7 flyvere blev begravet i Odense og 2 på Svinø Kirkegård. (Kilde: FAF)  7 flyvere.
 
On 1 October 1942 HAL DT520 crashed into the sea about here off Nordenbro, Langeland
on a bombing raid on Flensburg, here. All of the crew perished. See p116MACR.

On 14 October 1942 D. A. Ivers was found drifted ashore close to the crash site.
H. E. Sullivan, D. Campbell and D. A. Ivers were buried in Odense on 17 October 1942. (AOD)

Sergeant (Air Gunner) Donald Arthur Ivers, 26, a citizen of Canada, was the son of John Henry and Yvonne Ivers, and the husband of Sally R. Platt Ivers, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
(Source: CWGC)
They Shall Grow Not Old: From Massachusetts, U.S.A.
He was one of many American airmen who had joined the RCAF. See Americans In The RCAF.
379 of them lost their lives - 8 of them are seen on www.airmen.dk + R.J. Dillon!
His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the BC Museum of Canada.
The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this. He is remembered on The Walls of Names at
the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 187.

5 of the 7 airmen were buried in Odense and 2 in Svinø Churchyard. (Source: FAF)
See No. 10 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * RAF 10 Squadron Association.
Halifax * Halifax Print * Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum
Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum * Halifax Mk III at YAM 2019
Halifax II DT520 ZA-J took off from RAF Melbourne  at 18.00 hrs on 01 OCT 1942.
(Source: 
Aircrew Remembered has  this).  7 airmen.