Halliday, Roscoe Edward
Army 2nd Lieutenant

Roscoe Edward Halliday from Maine, Androscoggin county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Thursday, June 11, 1953
Death details: Late at night on June 10, 1953, Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) launched an attack against an important American outpost known as “Outpost Harry,” which commanders had deemed a “major outpost…to be held at all costs.” Following hours of intense bombardment, Chinese infantry attacked the American trench lines in front of the outpost. The CCF succeeded in capturing the trenches but intense hand-to-hand combat kept the CCF from advancing farther. Attacks persisted through the next day and late into June 11. By the morning of June 12, the Chinese forces withdrew. Similar assaults continued on “Outpost Harry” through the next week. First Lieutenant Roscoe Edward Halliday Jr. entered the U.S. Army from Maine and served in Company B, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He went missing in action during the CCF assault on “Outpost Harry,” though specific details regarding his loss are unknown. There is no evidence suggesting he was alive in enemy hands and his remains were not located following the battle. Today, First Lieutenant Halliday is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency