A bomb-ladden U.S. Navy Grumman A-6A <i>Intruder</i> (BuNo 155632) from Attack Squadron VA-75 <i>Sunday Punchers</i> launching from the aircraft carrier USS <i>Saratoga</i> (CVA-60). VA-75 was assigned to Carrier Air Wing 3 (CVW-3) aboard the <i>Saratoga</i> for a deplyoment to Vietnam from 11 April 1972 to 13 February 1973.<br>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 <i>Theodore Roosevelt</i> (CVN-71). The crew was killed.
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