>> No.10382217(PB)
>>No.10381505(PB)
There are abandoned military facilities all over the world, but could it be that some of the long-forgotten tunnels and underground structures are being used for human trafficking?
I just focused on “bases in South America and the Caribbean area, including Bermuda” that our US Military built.
The current US Naval Hospital at Guantanamo Bay is pictured here; what happened to the hospital built into the hillside in 1941?
“A new section base and an underground hospital were also begun during September 1941. The U-shaped pier, supported on timber piles, with a 260-foot base and two wings, each 350 by 30 feet, was built at the section base. Twelve barracks, each with a capacity for 230 men, a mess hall, and a new machine shop were also provided.
The underground hospital, a bomb-proof structure, comprising four concrete arch-type units built into a hillside, was fitted with 92 beds and complete hospital equipment, including two stand-by power plants for light and forced ventilation.”
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Nothing was mentioned earlier in this section about the underground structures at the underground submarine base at Fort Segarra, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, USA, which we know exist [ >No.10382217(PB) ], so could it be portions of the submarine base at Coco Solo, Panama, were also underground? We know that concrete storage tanks were built underground, as was ammunition storage.
The naval magazine area at Coco Solo, originally completed in 1937, was more than doubled both in storage capacity and in area, during the war-construction period. Under the initial program, begun in November 1940, new additions were confined within the original area of 700 acres. After war was declared, further increase in storage facilities was ordered and the area of the reserve increased to 1,500 acres, of which 140 were devoted to the Coco Solo tank farm. Both the earlier work and the later additions required a considerable amount of clearing, excavating, and road building. Altogether, 40 storage structures of various types, ranging from concrete arch-type underground magazines for high explosives to frame storehouses, were built.
The capacity of the existing West Bank Ammunition Depot, commissioned in September 1937, was increased fourfold during the period from 1940 to 1943, a total of 47 ammunition magazines being built, of which 34 were concrete arch-type high-explosive magazines.
These were linked together by a system of access roads, and the newly developed area enclosed by 7 miles of wire fencing. In addition, sentry stations, telephone lines, quarters for assigned personnel, and a temporary mine-anchor storage building were included in the development.
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In Bermuda, “The general topography of the leased areas was gently rolling, varying in elevation from sea level to a maximum of 40 feet.”
“The principal structures built at the air station comprised a tender pier, three seaplane ramps and parking area, a large seaplane hangar, barracks for 1,100 men, quarters for 140 officers, a bombproof power plant, and the usual industrial, administration, and storage buildings. At the Hamilton Island site, underground storage was provided for fuel oil, diesel oil, and gasoline, as well as barracks for fuel depot and air station personnel, a 50-bed dispensary, a large magazine area, a radio station, and a 10-acre water-catchment area with storage for 5,000,000 gallons of rain water. All these installations were of a semi-permanent character.”
“Shortly after V-E Day further reductions were effected. Ordnance Island (the submarine base) was returned to its owners…”
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“Development and fortification of each base took into account the limitations imposed by location and character of terrain. Santa Lucia, in the Windward Islands, Antigua, Jamaica, British Guiana, and the island of Great Exuma in the Bahamas were equipped as secondary air bases and the remaining three, Trinidad, Bermuda, and Argentia, as major air bases. For immediate strategic reasons, Trinidad, Bermuda, and Argentia were given top priority and eventually became important bases for the operation of ships as well as planes. Argentia is discussed in the chapter dealing with bases in the North Atlantic.”
https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/Building_Bases/bases-18.html
This isn’t my forte, so anybody that can bring more to the table, please have at it.