In 1943, Henry D. Perry, a dairy farmer, sold of land to the United States Navy for a flight training field between Hollywood Boulevard and Pembroke Road. It became known as "North Perry Field", and functioned as an auxiliary training facility for the main naval air station known as NAS Miami. There also was "South Perry Field", which was located to the southeast of North Perry (the Florida Turnpike runs right through this area today). South Perry was a grass field (no facilities/structures) that was only intended to be for North Perry overflow.