Air Chief Marshal Sir Donald Randell Evans, KBE, CB, DFC (31 January 1912 – 9 April 1975) was a senior Royal Air Force commander who was an innovator in night fighting tactics in the Second World War and conducted the signals planning for the Sicily and Normandy invasions.
[1] Following service in the Middle East, Evans joined RAF Fighter Command where he was a signals officer at the outbreak of the Second World War.
[1] As The Times reported, "with an already established reputation as a progressive mind on joint planning he worked closely with the then Chief of the Defence Staff, Lord Mountbatten to try to ensure that unification became a real integration of the policy making functions of the three services, a step resisted at that time by some less flexible senior officers.
Evans married first Pauline Breech with whom he had two children Nigel and Judith and, secondly, Squadron Leader Phillip Hunter's widow, Eleanor with whom he had one son, James.
[This quote needs a citation] He also stated that his rise in the Royal Air Force had been the more remarkable because "Donald suffered intolerably from bad health from his early youth, and all through his life".