Cattle pulls his plow as a farmer plows his field in Puerto Rico. Man loads sugar cane into a truck. The S.S. Catherine is docked at a passenger terminal. (She makes overnight runs between San Juan, Puerto Rico, and St. Thomas, the U.S. Virgin Islands.) Men are seen moving about on the wharf, where some cargo is sitting. . View of farms. A small tugboat pulls a heavily laden barge in coastal waters. A sign reads 'god bless America'. New cars are seen on the docks. Some are covered with cloth covers. Cars of the era are parked at the curb near a sidewalk. Aerial views from an airplane flying over the coastline. Views of Fort San Felipe del Morro from the air.
Lowland portions of the island in Puerto Rico. Mountains in Puerto Rico. Houses for peasants on the mountains. Cattle plows farms on a mountain. Women and children outside a hut.
Large crew of Hurricane Hunters board a WC-121N Lockheed Super Constellation of Airborne Early Warning Squadron FOUR (VW-4). The aircraft takes off flying directly over the camera at U.S. Naval Station, Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico. Aerial view of the WC-121N in flight. Aerial view of storm clouds. A dropsonde being launched from the aircraft. View of cabin interior with crew members at their stations. Radio operator keying message. A sailor annotating a weather map with latest data. The USS Willis A. Lee (DL-4), reversing course due to weather warning. Two F9F-8 aircraft deploying to avoid storm. Commercial store fronts at shore boarded up for protection. Women and a boy boarding up their home in Puerto Rico for a 1960 (likely) or 1961 (possibly) hurricane storm. Men placing ropes across their roof to lash it down against wind. Water and wind driving across a city street. Several cars driving through heavy winds and rain. Trees bending in hurricane winds. Coastal flooding occuring. Pilot and copilot in cockpit of WC-121N Hurricane Hunter aircraft. Crew coping with turbulence back in the cabin. The VW-4 Logo.
Nationalist sympathizers are arrested at the Insular Police Headquarters, and placed aboard a bus, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. They are transported and seen stepping from a commercial bus with "Mazaguez Linea el Dia" written on its front. The Capitol Building of Puerto Rico can be seen in the distant background. A circular drive in front of a building is filled, bumper-to-bumper, with taxj cabs, labeled "City Taxi."
Tropical waters and shore areas with palm trees in Puerto Rico. U.S. defenses in Puerto Rico, early in World War 2 period. U.S. destroyer patrols at San Juan harbor, the El Moro fortress, and Governor's Palace. San Juan street scenes. Capital building, residential areas and a water fountain.
Map highlights New York in United States and San Juan in Puerto Rico. Connection established between the two places. Baltimore and Miami also connected with San Juan. Map of Island of Puerto Rico. Boats at San Juan harbor. Buildings in background. A Pan American Airways Fokker F-10A trimotor passenger plane lands on airfield. Tourists deplane. A Sikorsky S-40 flying boat being tied up to a dock. Automobiles parked in streets of port city. Buildings in city. Traffic moves on street. Man looks down from balcony of building. Traffic in narrow streets. Cloudy sky as seen from seacoast.
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