PORT CLINTON — On March 24, 1945, a newly-built PBY-6A Catalina airplane was delivered to Floyd Bennett Field, a U.S. Naval Station in Brooklyn, New York, where it began service in World War II.

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A PBY-6A Catalina drops a load of water from its bomb-bay doors over Crescent Harbor. The aircraft's departure marked the end of a weeklong visit to Naval Air Station Whidbey Island and Oak Harbor.

It was a plane designed to search for and track Japanese fleets in World War II. After the war, it was used as a water bomber to fight fires all over the world. It has been described as one of the ...