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1940's From a postcard

1940's - Miami Beach hotels used by the Army Air Corps for training men for war

Miami Beach, Florida


It looks like they built the hotels too close to the waterline due to the lack of beach.


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Guest 18-Nov-2019 19:00
My dad was Physical Training Instructor and a Technical sgt. stationed in the Sea Isle Hotel. He played on and managed a baseball team called the Boca Raton Bombers. I have a great picture of perhaps 100 officers and enlisted men with a band in the background which I believe is this hotel. I am very happy to have this picture, would like to get a print. The United States used the hotels along the coast to train the soldiers and to protect the coast. He was in the entourage who inspected the hotels with the owners when they were turned back over to them after the war, and restitution resolved . Barbara McRoberts
Arthur Marcus 14-Mar-2013 14:52
Picture includes the Versailles Hotel. It was virtually the only Hotel on Miami Beach that was not used by the Army or Air Force because it was French owned and the owner
would not allow the hotel to be used by our military forces.
Liz 30-Jan-2012 19:39
MY 91 YEAR OLD FATHER WAS TRAINNING TO BE A PIOLET IN THE AIR CORP HAD A ROOM AT THE SEA ISLE HOTEL. THEY HAD TO BE ABLE TO EVACUATE THE BUILDING IN 60 SEC, HE SAYS THEY DRILLED ALL THE TIME!
Betsy Peacock 12-Oct-2010 22:41
Gosh!! Here is a picture of the old Hotels!! I have recently learned that my biological father was a bookkeeper in 1953 at one of these!! Wish I knew which one!! All I want to know is his name and health history!! I had THE most wonderful parents in the world who brought me home from the hospital. Still....I would LIKE to know!! E-mail me at Boodles1953@aol.com with any info you have!
Bob Sara 10-Oct-2009 19:15
It's the jetties that caused the beaches to erode. Every hotel built a jetty to define "their" beach. The beaches should belong to the public.