"Herman" wrote

Well, it is an amphibian and considering that in those days airfields were
not omnipresent the possibility of choice between land and water for
landing could be quite handy.

Sure, except that inland there is hardly for most of the year a puddle large
enough for a small duck. I am talking about an area many millions of square
kilometers, the Sahel and the southern confines of the Sahara desert.