https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/catalina-destroyed-florida.html
A World War Two seaplane has been left abandoned and stranded for a while on a beach off the north Gulf Coast of the US. It the subsequent “recovery operation” the Catalina broke apart and has been destroyed.
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I have an odd question that has come up in conversations with several other people and I wanted to run it by you guys.
If a military plane was destroyed on the ground during Pearl Harbor, would that aircraft be considered as having been lost or destroyed during combat?