page_title: James M. Cushing
section_title: Military
hierarchical_section_title: James M. Cushing / Military
caption_attribution_description: Distinguished Service Cross.
context_page_description: Lt. Col. James M. Cushing was a mining engineer in US Army who commanded the Philippine resistance against Japan on Cebu Island in the Philippines during World War II.
context_section_description: Cushing's forces in the Cebu Area Command numbered about 8,500.  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.  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.  In 1945, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.
caption: Distinguished Service Cross
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