Why do we use finally blocks?

Question

As far as I can tell, both of the following code snippets will serve the same purpose. Why have finally blocks at all?

Code A:

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Answer 1

finally ALWAYS executes, unless the JVM was shut down, finally just provides a method to put the cleanup code in one place.

It would be too tedious if you had to put the clean up code in each of the catch blocks.