Editing James Basevi Ord (section)

==Death==
Ord was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 1 July 1936.{{sfn|Cullum|1940|p=295}} His main responsibility was to draw up a military budget for the Philippines. A realistic one proved difficult to create, as the United States government would not supply the funding for the equipment that MacArthur and Eisenhower believed that the Philippines would require in order to resist a Japanese invasion.{{sfn|James|1970|p=517}} A key part of this was the fledgling Philippine Air Corps.{{sfn|James|1970|p=532}} On 30 January 1938, Ord took off on a flight to [[Baguio]] with a Filipino student pilot at the controls. As the plane approached its destination, Ord had the pilot flew low over a friend's house so he could drop a note announcing his arrival tied to a rock. The inexperienced pilot stalled the plane and it crashed, killing Ord.{{sfn|Haskew|2014|p=102}} President [[Manuel Quezon]] awarded Ord the [[Distinguished Service Star]].<ref name="DSS">{{cite news |url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1938/02/03/general-order-no-2-s-1938/  |title=General Order No. 2, s. 1938 |newspaper=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines |access-date=5 October 2015}}</ref> His citation read:{{quote|As one of the principal assistants of the Military Adviser Colonel Ord continuously, from the inauguration of the Commonwealth to the moment of his untimely death, devoted his exceptional talents to the development of adequate security forces for the Philippines. Through his professional attainments, his breadth of understanding, his zeal and his magnetic leadership he was directly responsible for notable progress in the Philippine Army. Through his outstanding achievements, in the service of the Philippine Government, to which service he gave his life, he increased the brilliance of his already enviable military reputation, became an inspiration to the officers and enlisted men of the Army, and earned the gratitude and affection of the Philippine Government and of the Filipino people.<ref name="DSS"/>}}

Upon his death, Ord was replaced by Lieutenant Colonel [[Richard K. Sutherland]].{{sfn|James|1970|p=565}} Ord was buried in [[Arlington National Cemetery]], not far from his father and other members of his family.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/#/arlington-national/search/results/1/CgNvcmQSBWphbWVz/ |title=ANC Explorer |publisher=[[Arlington National Cemetery]] |access-date=10 December 2020 }}</ref> He was survived by his wife, Emily Collier Howell, and his two children, James Basevi Ord, Jr., and Letitia Howell Ord.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/col-james-ord_20869058 |title=Col James Ord 1890–1938 |publisher=Ancestry.com |access-date=5 October 2015 }}</ref> James Jr. subsequently became a colonel in the [[United States Marine Corps]]. He married Virginia Cartwright Shepherd, the daughter of General [[Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr.]], a [[Commandant of the United States Marine Corps|Commandant of the Marine Corps]].<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[Leatherneck Magazine]] |volume=80 |issue=8 |date=August 1997 |title=In Memoriam: Col James B. Ord Jr |url=https://www.mca-marines.org/leatherneck/1997/08/memoriam-col-james-b-ord-jr#sthash.ehoRy18L.dpuf |access-date=5 October 2015 }}</ref>