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AT-75 / ATF-75 Sioux

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USS Sioux (ATF-75) was transferred to Turkey and renamed 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 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 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 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
  • Sioux (ATF-75) earned four battle stars for World War II service and five campaign stars for service in the Vietnam War
    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 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, two single 20mm guns
    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
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    Sioux 105k Sioux (ATF-75) underway, circa 1952.
    US Navy photo # NH 99485 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Sioux 112k Sioux (ATF-75) underway, circa 1952.
    US Navy photo # NH 99486 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Sioux 57k 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
    Sioux 60k 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
    Sioux 98k 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
    Sioux 113k 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
    Sioux 82k 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 Taluga (AO-62) can be identified. Photo taken from Bausell (DD-845) Photo by Lee Noland STGC, USN Ret. USS Bausell.
    View the Sioux (ATF-75)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Historical antidote contributed by Robert S. Gardner for his father
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
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