Linda kush biography
LINDA KUSH is a freelance writer and reporter whose work has appeared in World War II magazine, The Boston Globe, Weatherwise magazine, and community newspapers in the Boston area.!
Linda Kush is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in World War II magazine, The Boston Globe, and various blogs.
By Linda Kush, Osprey Publishing, (2012)
Reviewed by David Kronenfeld
The Rice Paddy Navy relates the unique story of the Sino-American Cooperation Organization (SACO), an intelligence and special operations unit of the US Navy in China during World War II.
Author Linda Kush has expended significant research in the writing of her first book length publication. The Rice Paddy Navy provides readers with a history of SACO from its gestation in the halls of Washington, DC to its guerilla actions in Chinese rice paddies and weather collection efforts in the Mongolian desert.
Many Americans barely associate China with U.S.
actions in the Pacific. Battles and locales such as Pearl Harbor, Midway, Guadalcanal, Wake Island, Okinawa and Iwo Jima generally take a front row seat in the story of the Pacific War and what mention might be made of China is often a brief reference to General Stilwell and Claire Chennault’s Flying Tigers.
The Rice Paddy Navy helps correct this perception and e