Underground Base In Guam?

Not that this is probably a great secret to anyone but I was discussing the B-2 and military service my dad served while overseas. He talked about how when he was in Guam, that the B-2s took off from runways that were IN the mountain. I found this to be pretty intriguing, does anyone have any information about that? Any links?

Mountains? Guam?

I'd say they have a real challange just hiding the mountains. The highest point on the island is Mt. Lamlam at a whopping 1,334ft (407m). Any underground base in the area is just as likely to be below sea level.

That said, there are small caves all over the place.

On the serious side, go to TopoZone and poke around; they have a decent on-line USGS topographic map of the island (Terraserver and Google are useless here, it appears) and maybe you'll find what you're looking for.

Also, USGS has a list of every known and named feature on Guam. 3_FID:1390246:YES"" target="_blank" class="postlink" rel="nofollow">Try this link and if it doesn't work for you (it may be session-specifiic), go to the GEONAMES server and do a search.

[edit on 3-6-2006 by rand]
Hmmm...funky URL: it previews OK but won't post. Go striaght to geonames.usgs.gov... if you're interested.

[edit on 3-6-2006 by rand]

Hmm.. I'll have to talk to him again when I see him. Thanks!

Then again...I checked again and found tons of references to the "mountains" and "southern mountains" of Guam.

Odd. My own father mentioned the "hills" when he visited Guam in the 60's; it must be a relative thing, since we were at that time living on the flanks of the Lompoc Hills, which are somewhat taller than Guam's tallest "mountain".

There's a runway on Anderson AB that ends at the edge of a cliff. When planes go off super heavy, they drop down where you can't see them for a few miles, because they drop below the cliff. Maybe that's what he was talking about.

I thought I heard about aircraft landing and taking off in mountains during the war, but I don't remember if it was Guam.

wasnt there a luftwaffe base in Germany where the runway was mostly in a mountain?

I never thought guam was big enough to possibly have an underground base of sorts. Is that even possible? I always thought it was a small island out in the Pacific. I passed through there after nam but was only there for about 8 hours. Did not get to see much. Is there anyone that can enlighten me on whether or not that's possible. I know the bare basics of the japanese on it in WW2 but am pretty uninformed on it otherwisw.