1940s HOME MOVIE ROOSEVELT ROADS NAVAL STATION PUERTO RICO MARINE CORPS (SILENT) RW00034

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 16mm, silent, color home movie depicts activities of the late 1940’s or early 1950s at and around Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, a United States Navy base in the town of Ceiba, Puerto Rico. The site operates today as José Aponte de la Torre Airport. The propeller of a transport airplane flying above the clouds (0:08). A blanket of cloud cover and the view along the plane’s wing with the U.S. star insignia (0:28). A U.S. Navy blimp sits grounded at Roosevelt Roads airfield with 1940s automobiles in the foreground. A nearby hangar (0:33). Three Marines in service dress khaki uniforms march in lock step (0:53). A U.S. flag is raised (1:04). A car parked beneath a palm tree. A sign, “Keep Off the Grass” (1:18). Parked cars and men in “dixie cup” hats (1:26). Sign: “Marine Barracks. Naval Operating Base. Roosevelt Roads. Puerto Rico” (1:30). Sailors look out from a