Career
His 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. Cushing survived the war and continued living in the Philippines until his death in 1963.