File:A-6A VA-75 launching from USS Saratoga (CVA-60) c1972.jpg
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A bomb-ladden U.S. Navy Grumman A-6A Intruder (BuNo 155632) from Attack Squadron VA-75 Sunday Punchers launching from the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CVA-60). VA-75 was assigned to Carrier Air Wing 3 (CVW-3) aboard the Saratoga for a deplyoment to Vietnam from 11 April 1972 to 13 February 1973. 155632 was later converted to an A-6E and shot down on 2 February 1991 by Iraqi flak off Faylaka Island, 49 km north-east of Kuwait City, while in service with VA-36, CVW-8 aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71). The crew was killed. |
| Date | circa 1972 |
| Source | U.S. Navy photo [1] from the USS Saratoga (CVA-60) 1972-73 cruise book available at Navysite.de |
| Author | USN |
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