Before the Battle of Leyte Gulf occured, Filipino guerillas captured Admiral Shigeru Fukudome, chief of staff of Admiral Koga, who replaced Yamamoto.
Fukodome and Koga were traveling in seperate planes traveling from Palau to Davao when they were seperated due to a storm. Koga's plane was never found but Fukodome's Flying Boat was forced down in Cebu and he was captured by Filipino guerillas.
He was later released to prevent reprisals on Filipino civilians but all his papers were turned over to US authorities. Included in the papers were plans for the defense of the Philippines. According to columnist Bobit Avila of the Philippine Star, it was sent to Gen. Macarthur via the submarine USS Crevale.
According to his article, the captured plan influenced Macarthur to change his Philippine landing plan from General Santos City to Leyte.

Very interessting . Amazing that it all started with a storm an a crashed plane.

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Outstanding work by the Guerrillas, and a smart move to give him back and "peal" the paperwork at the same time. Do you have a website on this ? I'd love to read about it, and give credit where credit is due.

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"Danger Will Robinson!"

Thanks for posting this, Falcon, I did not know of this action.

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Best Regards,
JW

It should be on the Philippine Star website. I had a harcopy of the newspaper, not a virtual one so I haven't looked yet. The columnist also mentions a book about it written by one of the surviving guerillas. I doubt, however, if it's sold outside the US. Even I haven't seen the said book.