Nonstop flight route between Agana, Guam and Warsaw, Poland:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Andersen Air Force Base (UAM), Agana, Guam and Historic Centre of Warsaw (WRW), Warsaw, Poland would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,800 miles (or 10,944 kilometers).

A Great Circle is the shortest distance between 2 points on a sphere. Because most world maps are flat (but the Earth is round), the route of the shortest distance between 2 points on the Earth will often appear curved when viewed on a flat map, especially for long distances. If you were to simply draw a straight line on a flat map and measure a very long distance, it would likely be much further than if you were to lay a string between those two points on a globe. Because of the large distance between Andersen Air Force Base and Historic Centre of Warsaw, the route shown on this map most likely appears curved because of this reason.

Try it at home! Get a globe and tightly lay a string between Andersen Air Force Base and Historic Centre of Warsaw. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Andersen Air Force Base (UAM):

• In 1951, the Strategic Air Command chose several overseas bases to support rotational unit deployments of its bombers from stateside bases, starting with B-29 Superfortress units and later including Convair B-36, B-47 Stratojet, B-50 Superfortress bombers, and KB-29 refueling tankers.
• In October 1949, the 19th Wing again became subordinated to the 20th Air Force and the remaining units in the Marianas and Bonin Islands were transferred to other organizations.
• However, the FEAF Bomber Command was inactivated in 1954 and its three B-29 wings returned stateside and replaced with B-47s.
• The furthest airport from Andersen Air Force Base (UAM) is Salvador-Deputado Luís Eduardo Magalhães International Airport (2 de Julho) (SSA), which is nearly antipodal to Andersen Air Force Base (meaning Andersen Air Force Base is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Salvador-Deputado Luís Eduardo Magalhães International Airport (2 de Julho)), and is located 12,214 miles (19,656 kilometers) away in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
• B-29 Superfortress missions from North Field were attacks against strategic targets in Japan, initially operating in daylight and at high altitude to bomb factories, refineries, and other objectives.
• The closest airport to Andersen Air Force Base (UAM) is Guam International Airport (GUM), which is located only 11 miles (17 kilometers) SW of UAM.
• The host unit at Andersen AFB is the 36th Wing, assigned to the Pacific Air Forces Thirteenth Air Force.
• Andersen AFB was established in 1944 as North Field and is named for Brigadier General James Roy Andersen.
• The Japanese managed to contain the marines on two beachheads, but their counter-attack failed.
• With the start of Operation Arc Light in June 1965, B-52s and KC-135s began regular bombing missions over Vietnam, and continued in that capacity until 1973, with a break between August 1970 and early 1972.

Facts about Historic Centre of Warsaw (WRW):

• Warsaw's name in the Polish language is Warszawa - pronounced Varshava -, means "belonging to Warsz", Warsz being a shortened form of the masculine name of Slavic origin Warcisław.
• On 17 January 1945 – after the beginning of the Vistula–Oder Offensive of the Red Army – Soviet troops entered the ruins of Warsaw, and liberated Warsaw's suburbs from German occupation.
• The furthest airport from Historic Centre of Warsaw (WRW) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,446 miles (18,420 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• The closest airport to Historic Centre of Warsaw (WRW) is Warsaw Chopin Airport (WAW), which is located only 5 miles (8 kilometers) SSW of WRW.
• The Russian Empire Census of 1897 recorded 626,000 people living in Warsaw, making it the third-largest city of the Empire after St.
• Warsaw is known as the city of palaces, royal gardens and grand parks.
• Stanisław August Poniatowski, who remodelled the interior of the Royal Castle, also made Warsaw a centre of culture and the arts.
• Public spaces attract heavy investment, so that the city has gained entirely new squares, parks and monuments.
• The Germans then razed Warsaw to the ground.