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tropical storm killing all on board. Fukudome's plane survived the storm but was forced to use most of its fuel supplies managing headwinds. Fukudome's plane was now on course to Cebu island six miles away but the pilot misjudged the landing and settled into the Bohol Strait 2.5 miles from shore. As the plane began to sink
Fukudome and 12 other survivors managed to free themselves from the wreckage now engulfed in flames. On the morning of April 3, Filipino Pedro Gantuangoko, spotted an oil-covered box and discovered the red leather portfolio containing "Z" plan floating offshore. Gantuangoko recovered the strange artifact and buried it believing its contents were of great importance. Meanwhile, Fukudome and the Japanese survivors were rescued and subsequently capture by a group of Filipinos who thus journeyed into the hills above San Fernando reaching a rest area and a guerrilla aid station near Caloctogan home of Cebu Area Command led by U.S. Avery Lt. Col. James M. Cushing. Cushing had been informed by intelligence in D.C., who had decoded Japanese communication, that the Japanese were desperately searching for contents lost in the plane accidents. The next day Cebu Area Command returned to the village and conducted interrogations in hopes of uncovering the missing box. Meanwhile, Gantuangoko relinquished the box containing "Z" plan to local guerillas who forwarded the finding to Cushing. Z Plan was recovered and immediately rushed to ATIS in Australia. Once translated by ATIS, "Z" plan was distributed to every command in the U.S. Navy.
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