PFC Backen #2127638
MOS: 7011 Expeditionary Airfield Systems Technician.
Dennis arrived in Vietnam 1 September 1964 and was assigned to MABS-11, MAG-11, 1st Marine Air Wing.
When the Marines arrived in Vietnam in force a "rest and recuperation" program was established which permitted assigned Marines and sailors to take a few days' leave in various out-of-country locations - Hong Kong, Bangkok, the Philippines, and so on.
On 24 August 1965 a KC-130 (BuNo 149802) belonging to VMGR-152 was scheduled to bring 65 passengers back from Hong Kong. As the aircraft took off from Kai Tak airport it veered off the runway, struck a sea wall, and crashed in Kowloon Bay. Twelve of the 71 men on board survived the crash; 59 did not.
Dennis died 16 days after his 18th birthday.
Survived by his mother, Ardell Lorraiane Keaster and his brother Roger Dew Bracken, who served in the Marines.
His name was added to the Vietnam WALL on November 1983.
MOS: 7011 Expeditionary Airfield Systems Technician.
Dennis arrived in Vietnam 1 September 1964 and was assigned to MABS-11, MAG-11, 1st Marine Air Wing.
When the Marines arrived in Vietnam in force a "rest and recuperation" program was established which permitted assigned Marines and sailors to take a few days' leave in various out-of-country locations - Hong Kong, Bangkok, the Philippines, and so on.
On 24 August 1965 a KC-130 (BuNo 149802) belonging to VMGR-152 was scheduled to bring 65 passengers back from Hong Kong. As the aircraft took off from Kai Tak airport it veered off the runway, struck a sea wall, and crashed in Kowloon Bay. Twelve of the 71 men on board survived the crash; 59 did not.
Dennis died 16 days after his 18th birthday.
Survived by his mother, Ardell Lorraiane Keaster and his brother Roger Dew Bracken, who served in the Marines.
His name was added to the Vietnam WALL on November 1983.
PFC Backen #2127638
MOS: 7011 Expeditionary Airfield Systems Technician.
Dennis arrived in Vietnam 1 September 1964 and was assigned to MABS-11, MAG-11, 1st Marine Air Wing.
When the Marines arrived in Vietnam in force a "rest and recuperation" program was established which permitted assigned Marines and sailors to take a few days' leave in various out-of-country locations - Hong Kong, Bangkok, the Philippines, and so on.
On 24 August 1965 a KC-130 (BuNo 149802) belonging to VMGR-152 was scheduled to bring 65 passengers back from Hong Kong. As the aircraft took off from Kai Tak airport it veered off the runway, struck a sea wall, and crashed in Kowloon Bay. Twelve of the 71 men on board survived the crash; 59 did not.
Dennis died 16 days after his 18th birthday.
Survived by his mother, Ardell Lorraiane Keaster and his brother Roger Dew Bracken, who served in the Marines.
His name was added to the Vietnam WALL on November 1983.
MOS: 7011 Expeditionary Airfield Systems Technician.
Dennis arrived in Vietnam 1 September 1964 and was assigned to MABS-11, MAG-11, 1st Marine Air Wing.
When the Marines arrived in Vietnam in force a "rest and recuperation" program was established which permitted assigned Marines and sailors to take a few days' leave in various out-of-country locations - Hong Kong, Bangkok, the Philippines, and so on.
On 24 August 1965 a KC-130 (BuNo 149802) belonging to VMGR-152 was scheduled to bring 65 passengers back from Hong Kong. As the aircraft took off from Kai Tak airport it veered off the runway, struck a sea wall, and crashed in Kowloon Bay. Twelve of the 71 men on board survived the crash; 59 did not.
Dennis died 16 days after his 18th birthday.
Survived by his mother, Ardell Lorraiane Keaster and his brother Roger Dew Bracken, who served in the Marines.
His name was added to the Vietnam WALL on November 1983.
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