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Cushing’s Coup: The True Story of How Lt. Col. James Cushing and His Filipino Guerrillas Captured Japan's Plan Z
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Product Description This work reveals one of the most important intelligence triumphs of World War II. It was no less than the capture of Japan’s “Plan Z”—the Empire’s fully detailed strategy for prosecuting the last stages of the Pacific War. It’s a story of happenstance, mayhem, and intrigue, and resulted directly in the spectacular U.S. victory in the Philippine Sea and MacArthur’s early return to Manila, doubtless shortening WWII by months. One night in April 1944, Admiral Koga (successor to Yamamoto), commander-in-chief of Japanese forces in the Pacific, took off in a seaplane to establish new headquarters. For security reasons he had his chief-of-staff, Rear Admiral Fukudome, fly in a separate seaplane. But both aircraft ran into a tremendous typhoon and were knocked out of the skies. Koga’s plane crashed with the loss of all hands. Fukudome’s crashlanded into the sea off Cebu, the Philippines, and both the admiral and the precious Japanese war plans floated ashore. Lt. Col. James M. Cushing was an American mining engineer who happened to be in Cebu when war broke out in the Pacific. He soon took charge of the local guerrillas and became a legendary leader. But his most spectacular exploit came when he captured Admiral Fukudome and the “Plan Z” that was in his tow. The result was a ferocious cat-and-mouse game between Cushing’s guerrillas and the Japanese occupation forces. While Cushing desperately sent out messages to MacArthur to say what he had found, the Japanese scoured the entire countryside, killing hundreds of civilians in a full-scale attempt to retrieve their loss. Cushing finally traded the admiral in return for a cessation of civilian deaths—but he still secretly retained the Japanese war plans. Naturally both Tokyo and Washington tried to cover up what was happening at the time—neither wanted the other to know what they’d lost, or what they’d found. However, in this book we finally learn of the huge intelligence coup by Lt. Col. Cushing that helped to shorten the entire war. Table of Contents PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PART ONE: THE PACIFIC ON FIRE PROLOGUE: THE ORIGINS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1 THE OTSU INCIDENT 2 JOINING THE GOLD RUSH 3 THE MAGIC OF CEBU 4 SITUATION UNTENABLE 5 THE HUNT FOR PLAN Z 6 JAPAN AND WORLD WAR II 7 UNDER ATTACK! 8 THE AMERICAN SURRENDER 9 THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF CEBU PART TWO: GUERRILLA WARFARE IN CEBU, PHILIPPINES 10 THE BIRTH OF A GUERRILLA ARMY 11 TABUNAN 12 JAPANESE COUNTERATTACKS 13 GUERRILLA WARFARE IN THE PHILIPPINES 14 THE BATTLE FOR TABUNAN 15 THE STRUGGLE FOR RECOGNITION PART THREE: THE Z-PLAN 16 THE CODE BREAKERS 17 THE DOCUMENTS THAT CHANGED THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC 18 PLAN Z IN AMERICAN HANDS 19 GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR AND THE PHILIPPINES 20 PLANNING THE RETURN 21 “I HAVE RETURNED” 22 THE LIBERATION OF CEBU PART FOUR: EPILOGUE 23 THE END OF WORLD WAR II 24 THE OTSU INCIDENT IN HINDSIGHT 25 LIEUTENANT COLONEL JAMES M. CUSHING ENDNOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY Review "while the Philippines may have been remiss in overlooking or ignoring James Cushing's contribution to its history and continued existence, Dirk Jan Barreveld has to a considerable extent compensated for this with his remarkable account of Cushing's Coup and the all but forgotten guerrilla war waged by the Filipinos against the Japanese from 1942 to 1945" David J.A. Stone, British military historian, author and former soldier "A must-read book" Sun Star "Every once in a while there is a book about a forgotten or neglected aspect of World War II history that makes a reader wonder why this story has not been turned into a movie. Cushing’s Coup is one of those books...reveals the serendipitous discovery and savvy exploitation of the intelligence coup of the naval plans of the Imperial Japanese Navy for 1944, demonstrating the importance of intelligence to the prosecution of the Allied effort during the Pacific War, and how that intelligence depended on little-known and poorly remembered people on the
