Distinguished Service Cross
Lt. Col. James M. Cushing (1908 - August 26, 1963) was a US Army mining engineer who commanded the guerrilla movement on Cebu Island in the Philippines during World War II.[1] His forces in the Cebu Area Command numbered about 8,500.[1] In early 1944, he was instrumental in the Koga affair in which the Z Plan of the Imperial Japanese Navy was recovered by his guerrillas.[2] Cushing traded Japanese admiral Shigeru Fukudome and other survivors of a plane crash (but not the captured Z Plan) for the assurance that Japanese forces on Cebu would stop murdering civilians; a promise which the Japanese kept.[1] In 1945, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.[3] Cushing survived the war and continued living in the Philippines until his death in 1963.[4]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 CHAPTER 4, Special Operations in the Pacific U.S. Army Special Operations in World War II, David W. Hogan, Jr., CMH Publication 70-42 (1992)
- ↑ The "Z Plan" Story Japan's 1944 Naval Battle Strategy Drifts into U.S. Hands, Greg Bradsher, Prologue Magazine, Fall 2005, Vol. 37, No. 3
- ↑ Military Times Hall of Valor accessed 2011-02-24.
- ↑ Steven Trent Smith, The Rescue: A True Story of Courage and Survival in World War II (2001), p303.
See also[]
- The Rescue: A True Story of Courage and Survival in World War II, Steven Trent Smith, Hoboken:John Wiley & Sons, (2001) ISBN 0-471-41291-0
- TABUNAN: The Untold Story of the Famed Cebu Guerillas of World War II, Col. Manuel F. Segura, excerpts hosted by the Cebu Eskrima Society
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