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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

Contributed by Mike Smolinski

USS Sioux (ATF-75)
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USS Sioux (AT-75) (1942 - 1944)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Uniform - Papa - Hotel NUPH

USS Sioux (ATF-75) was transferred to Turkey and renamed TCG Gazal (A-587)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (14 May 1945) - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp)
Second Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (4) - World War II Victory Medal
Third Row - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal - Korean Service Medal
Fourth Row - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (Korea 66-74)- Vietnam Service Medal (5) - Philippine Liberation Medal
Fifth Row - United Nations Service Medal - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal - Republic of Korea War Service Medal (retroactive)

Navajo Class Fleet Tug:

Laid down, 14 February 1942, by United Engineering Co., San Francisco, CA., at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA.

Launched, 27 May 1942

Commissioned USS Sioux (AT-75), 6 December 1942, LTjg. L. M. Jahnsen in command

Reclassified as a Fleet Ocean Tug (ATF-75), 15 May 1944

During WWII USS Sioux was assigned to Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:

**Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns**
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Treasury-Bougainville operation Occupation and Defense of Cape Torokina, 1 to 15 December 1943	Leyte operation 3rd Fleet supporting operations Okinawa Attack, October 1944
Bismarck Archipelago operations Kavieng Strike, January 1944 Bombardment of Kavieng and Rabaul, February 1944	Okinawa Gunto operation 5th and 3rd Fleet raids in support of Okinawa Gunto operation, July 1945

Decommissioned, 23 April 1947 at San Diego, CA

Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group

Recommissioned, 15 October 1952 at San Diego, CA., LT. T. B. Hurtt in command

During the Vietnam War USS Sioux participated in the following campaigns:

**Vietnam War Campaigns**
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Vietnam Defense 5 to 22 July 1965 12 to 27 September 1965	Sanctuary Counteroffensive 29 to 30 June 1970
Tet Counteroffensive 1 April 1968	Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VII 1 to 3 July 1970 26 to 28 August 1970 7 to 20 September 1970
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase IV 2 to 18 April 1968 28 May to 26 June 1968	.

Decommissioned, circa 30 October 1972

Transferred on lease to Turkey, 30 October 1972, renamed TCG Gazal (A-587)

Sold outright to Turkey under the Security Assistance Program, 15 August 1973

Struck from the Naval Register, 15 August 1973

Final Disposition, fate unknown

USS Sioux (ATF-75) earned four battle stars for World War II service and five campaign stars for Vietnam War service

Specifications:
Displacement 1,235 t.(lt) 1,646 t.(fl)
Length 205'
Beam 39'
Draft 14'
Speed 14 kts.
Complement 8 Officers, 68 Enlisted
Armament

one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount

two twin 40mm AA gun mounts

two single 20mm AA gun mounts
Propulsion diesel-electric, four General Motors 12-278A diesel main engines driving four General Electric generators and three General Motors 3-268A auxiliary services engines, single screw, 3,600shp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS Sioux (ATF-75)
	105k	*USS Sioux* (ATF-75)** underway, circa 1952. US Navy photo # NH 99485 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center	US Naval Historical Center
	112k	*USS Sioux* (ATF-75)** underway, circa 1952. US Navy photo # NH 99486 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center	US Naval Historical Center
	57k	*USS Sioux* (ATF-75)** underway in a tropical harbor, circa 1960s. US Navy photo # NH 99487 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center	US Naval Historical Center
	60k	*USS Sioux* (ATF-75)** in harbor during the 1960s. US Navy photo # NH 99488 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center	US Naval Historical Center
	98k	*USS Sioux* (ATF-75)** underway during the 1960s, probably at San Diego. Photographed by the Fleet Air Photo Lab (VU-7), Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego. US Navy photo # NH 99489 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center	US Naval Historical Center
	113k	*USS Sioux* (ATF-75)** underway, with her crew manning the rail, circa 1960s. US Navy photo # NH 99490-KN from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center	US Naval Historical Center
	82k	*USS Sioux* (ATF-75) moored outboard of USCGC Blackhaw (WLB-390) at Naval Base Subic Bay, Philippines Islands in 1967. Note the sterns of the AOs on the opposite side of the pier. Only USS Taluga (AO-62) can be identified. Photo taken from USS Bausell (DD-845)**	Photo by Lee Noland STGC, USN Ret. USS Bausell.
TCG Gazal (A-587)
	154k	Ex- *USS Sioux* (ATF-75) in Turkish naval service as TCG Gazal (A-587)** underway, date and location unknown.	Yucel M.Umar, CPO (Ret.) Turkish Navy
	114k	*TCG Gazal* (A-587)** underway, date and location unknown.	Yucel M.Umar, CPO (Ret.) Turkish Navy
	187k	*TCG Gazal* (A-587)** underway, date and location unknown.	Yucel M.Umar, CPO (Ret.) Turkish Navy
	68k	*TCG Gazal* (A-587)** underway, date and location unknown.	Yucel M.Umar, CPO (Ret.) Turkish Navy
	232k	*TCG Gazal* (A-587)** underway, date and location unknown.	Yucel M.Umar, CPO (Ret.) Turkish Navy and Cüneyt Demir
	266k	*TCG Gazal* (A-587)** underway, date and location unknown.	Cüneyt Demir
	111k	*TCG Gazal* (A-587)** underway, date and location unknown.	Cüneyt Demir
	214k	*TCG Gazal* (A-587)** at anchor, date and location unknown.	Cüneyt Demir
	48k	Drawing of *TCG Gazal* (A-587)** underway by Cüneyt Demir.	.