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. Early lifeJames McCloud Cushing was born at Guadalajara, Mexico, about 1910. In 1920, the family was living in El Paso, Texas, and ten year-old "Jimmie's" native tongue was listed as Spanish. MilitaryCushing's forces in the Cebu Area Command numbered about 8,500.
