Dennis Ray Christie

Vietnam War
Unit3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division
RankLance Corporal U.S. Marine Corps
Entered Service FromImperial Beach California
Date of DeathJune 11 1967
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
A
Notes
Lance Corporal Christie was a member of the 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division. On June 11, 1967, he was a passenger in a Boeing Sea Knight Cargo Helicopter (CH-46A) inserting a seven man team about eleven miles northwest of Dong Ha, South Vietnam, when his aircraft was hit by enemy fire and crashed. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.