 There he was to link up with Permesta rebels, insurgents led by dissident local army officers.On April 27, 1958, Pope landed his bomber at Mapanget, a rebel-held Indonesian Air Force base on the Minahassa Peninsula of northern Sulawesi.He joined fellow CAT pilot and former U.S. Air Force officer, William H. Beale, who had been flying a B-26 Invader for Permesta's "Angkatan Udara Revolusioner" ("Revolutionary Air Force", or AUREV) since April 19.