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Know Your fienvrals New Commander At Cherry Point CciiP!*nl Thomas J. Cushman lliis wook assn moil comma ml at Cherry Poiul. Ills military career started 34 years ago. Brigadier General Thomas J. Cush¬ man will assume command of Air¬ craft, Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic, and the Second Marine Air Wing at Cherry Point on August 15, 1951. Prior to taking over his new command, the General was Commanding Gen¬ eral of the First Marine Air Wing in Korea. 10 General Cushman, who was recent¬ ly selected for advancement to the rank of Major General, has been at Cherry Point before. He commanded the Marine Corps Air Station here from August 1941 to September 1943. At the start of the Korean hostilities, he was Commanding General of the First Marine Air Wing at E! Toro, Cali¬ fornia, and took the first echelon of the Wing to Korea. General Cushman was born on June 27. 1895. in St. Louis, Missouri. He at¬ tended the University of Washington in Seattle, and after completing his studies in 1917. enlisted in the Marine Corps on July 19 of that year. On October 22, 1918, he was commis¬ sioned a second lieutenant and after completing flight training in July, 1919, was designated a Naval Aviator. He was assigned to duty at the Ma¬ rine Barracks, Puget Sound. Washing¬ ton. in June. 1921. following which he was ordered to duty overseas in Sep¬ tember, 1923. at the Naval Station, Guam. Marianas Islands. He returned to the United States in November. 1924, and was stationed at the Air Field, Marine Barracks. Ouantico, Virginia, where he remained until August. 1925. when he joined the Naval Air Station at Pensacola. Flori¬ da as an instructor. From November. 1926, to April, 1929. he was attached to Aircraft Squadrons, West Coast Expeditionary Force, at San Diego, California. Dur¬ ing this period he was on temporary foreign shore duly at Managua, Nica¬ ragua, for four months from March through June, 1927. He was ordered to foreign shore duty in May, 1929, as Communica¬ tions and Acrological Officer with Ob¬ servation Squadron Ninc-M attached to the First Brigade Marines at Port au Prince. Haiti. In December. 1930, he became Executive Officer of the Squadron. Upon return to the United States in September. 1931, he was assigned as a student at the Engineering Course. Army Air Corps Tactical School. Cha- nute Field. Illinois. Upon graduation in July, 1932. he continued his duties as a student at the Company Officers Course, Marine Corps Schools. Ouan¬ tico. He completed the course in June 1933. and was assigned to duty in Washington with Aeronautics. Navy Department. In August, 1935. he was ordered as a student to the Army Air Corps Tac¬ tical School at Maxwell Field. Ala¬ bama, and in July. 1936. joined the Marine Corps Base at San Diego, where he was Squadron Commander of Ob¬ servation Squadron Eight. In June. 1937. he was named Operations Offi¬ cer of Aircraft Two, and in July of the following year assumed duties THE STATE, AUGUST 18. 19S1