James M. Cushing
Template:Short description Lieutenant Colonel James M. Cushing (circa 1910 – August 26, 1963) was a mining engineer in US Army who commanded the Philippine resistance against Japan on Cebu Island in the Philippines during World War II.[1]Template:Rp[2]
Early life
James McCloud Cushing was born at Guadalajara, Mexico, about 1910[3] to Canadian-born U.S. citizen George Cushing (1856-1925) and Mexican citizen Simona (De Navares) Cushing (1895-1981).[4] George was a managing director of the Canada Mexico Trading Company.[5] In 1920, the family was living in El Paso, Texas, and ten year-old "Jimmie's" native tongue was listed as Spanish.[6]
Military
Cushing's forces in the Cebu Area Command numbered about 8,500.[2] 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.[7] 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.[2] In 1945, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.[8]
Post war
Cushing survived the war and continued living in the Philippines.[9] On August 26, 1963, he and his wife Wilfreda Alao (Sabando) Cushing were on an inter-island transport en route to Mindoro Island from where they lived at TayTay, Palawan Island, when he succumbed to a heart attack.[10] He was 53 years old. Colonel Cushing was interred in Libingan ng mga Bayani (Heroes' Cemetery) in Manila.[3]
See also
- List of American guerrillas in the Philippines
- Battle of the Visayas
- The Rescue: A True Story of Courage and Survival in World War II, Steven Trent Smith, Hoboken:John Wiley & Sons, (2001) Template:ISBN
- TABUNAN: The Untold Story of the Famed Cebu Guerillas of World War II, Col. Manuel F. Segura, excerpts hosted by the Cebu Eskrima Society
References
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- ↑ Smith, R.R., 2005, Triumph in the Philippines, Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, Template:ISBN
- ↑ a b c CHAPTER 4, Special Operations in the Pacific Template:Webarchive U.S. Army Special Operations in World War II, David W. Hogan, Jr., CMH Publication 70-42 (1992)
- ↑ a b Report of the Death of an American Citizen; Department of State, Foreign Service of the U.S.A.; Manila, Philippines, Sep. 17, 1963
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- ↑ U.S. Federal Census; El Paso, Texas; precinct 33, district 84, sheet 13
- ↑ 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.
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- 1910s births
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- Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United States)
- United States Army colonels
- United States Army personnel of World War II
- American guerrillas of World War II
- Place of birth missing
- Burials at the Libingan ng mga Bayani