| 词条 | James M. Cushing |
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Early lifeJames 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] MilitaryCushing'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 warCushing 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] References1. ^Smith, R.R., 2005, Triumph in the Philippines, Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, {{ISBN|1-4102-2495-3}} 2. ^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) 3. ^1 Report of the Death of an American Citizen; Department of State, Foreign Service of the U.S.A.; Manila, Philippines, Sep. 17, 1963 4. ^{{cite web|title=George Cushing|url=https://forums.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Cushing&GSiman=1&GSst=6&GSob=c&GRid=67121309&|website=Find a Grave|accessdate=2 June 2017}} 5. ^{{cite book|last1=Cushing|first1=James S.|title=Genealogy of the Cushing Family|date=1905|publisher=Perrault Printing|location=Montreal, Quebec, Canada|page=447|edition=2nd}} 6. ^U.S. Federal Census; El Paso, Texas; precinct 33, district 84, sheet 13 7. ^[https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/fall/z-plan-1.html 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 8. ^Military Times Hall of Valor accessed 2011-02-24. 9. ^Steven Trent Smith, The Rescue: A True Story of Courage and Survival in World War II (2001), p303. 10. ^{{cite news|title=Death: Col. James Cushing|publisher=Stars and Stripes; Pacific Edition|date=30 August 1963|page=4}} See also
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