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USS Sioux (ATF-75)
ex
 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)
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. Leonard M. Jahnsen USN 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
    Treasury Island landing, 27 October 1943
    Occupation and Defense of Cape Torokina, 1, 11, 13, November, 3 to 4 and 15 December 1943     		Iwo Jima operation
    Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 15 February to 5 March 1945
    Bismarck Archipelago operations
    Kavieng Strike, 25 December 1943
    Green Island landing, 15 to 19 February 1944     		Okinawa Gunto operation
    5th and 3rd Fleet raids in support of Okinawa Gunto operation, 16 March to 13 June 1945

  • Following World War II USS Sioux was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East from 28 September to 5 December 1945
  • USS Sioux (ATF-75) was assigned to Joint Task Force 1, Task Unit 1.8.1 Service Group - Repair and Service Unit for Operation Crossroads the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in July 1946
  • 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
  • Participated in the Alaskan Earthquake Recovery Operations in 1964
  • 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, 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
  • USS Sioux (ATF-75) earned four battle stars for World War II service and five campaign stars for Vietnam War service
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,235 t.(lt) 1,646 t.(fl)
    Length 205'
    Beam 39'
    Draft 14'
    Speed 14 kts.
    Complement
    Officers 8
    Enlisted 68
    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 propeller, 3,600shp
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    USS Sioux (ATF-75)
    Sioux 105k USS Sioux (ATF-75) under way, circa 1952.
    US Navy photo # NH 99485 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Sioux 112k USS Sioux (ATF-75) under way, circa 1952.
    US Navy photo # NH 99486 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Sioux 258k LCDR. W. F Keller Jr. (left) reads his orders during a change of command ceremony aboard USS Sioux (ATF-75) at Naval Station San Diego. LCDR. Keller was relieved by LT. Frank J. Zwolinski, USN, (right) as commanding officer of Sioux, 13 August 1958. Frank Zwolinski for his father LCDR. Frank J. Zwolinski USN (CO USS Sioux, 1958-1960)
    Sioux 255k USS Sioux (ATF-75) enlisted crew members at 13 August 1958 change of command at Naval Station San Diego. Frank Zwolinski for his father LCDR. Frank J. Zwolinski USN (CO USS Sioux, 1958-1960)
    Sioux 57k USS Sioux (ATF-75) under way 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 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
    Sioux 98k USS Sioux (ATF-75) under way 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 USS Sioux (ATF-75) under way, 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
    Knox 119k The Fleet Tugs USS Sioux (ATF-75) and USS Cocopa (ATF-101), the Rescue and Salvage Ships USS Grapple (ARS-7) and USS Conserver (ARS-39) and the Submarine Rescue Ship USS Greenlet (ASR-10) attempting to pull the Destroyer USS Frank Knox (DD-742) off Pratas Reef in the South China Sea, some two hundred miles south east of Hong Kong. Frank Know ran aground 18 July 1965 and was finally refloated, 24 August 1965. This view was probably taken at about the time she was finally refloated on 24 August 1965.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 74179.    		 Tony Cowart
    Sioux 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)
    Sioux 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
    Sioux 114k TCG Gazal (A-587) underway, date and location unknown. Yucel M.Umar, CPO (Ret.) Turkish Navy
    Sioux 187k TCG Gazal (A-587) under way, date and location unknown. Yucel M.Umar, CPO (Ret.) Turkish Navy
    Sioux 68k TCG Gazal (A-587) under way, date and location unknown. Yucel M.Umar, CPO (Ret.) Turkish Navy
    Sioux 232k TCG Gazal (A-587) under way, date and location unknown. Yucel M.Umar, CPO (Ret.) Turkish Navy and Cüneyt Demir
    Sioux 266k TCG Gazal (A-587) under way, date and location unknown. Cüneyt Demir
    Sioux 111k TCG Gazal (A-587) under way, date and location unknown. Cüneyt Demir
    Sioux 214k TCG Gazal (A-587) at anchor, date and location unknown. Cüneyt Demir
    Sioux 48k Drawing of TCG Gazal (A-587) under way by Cüneyt Demir. .
    USS Sioux (ATF-75)
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
    Commanding Officers
    01LTjg. Jahnsen, Leonard Mac, USN6 December 1942 - January 1943
    02LT. Johnson, Benjamin Burch, USNJanuary 1943 - April 1943
    03LTjg. Jahnsen, Leonard Mac, USNApril 1943 - 29 January 1945
    04LTjg. Crandall, Orson Leon, USN29 January 1945 - March 1946
    05LTjg. Chapman, Orson Leon, USNMarch 1946 - June 1946
    06LT. Moore, W.H., USNJune 1946 - 23 April 1947
     Decommissioned23 April 1947 - 15 October 1952
    07LT. Hurtt, Thomas Braxton, USN15 October 1952 - 1953
    08LCDR. Looney, Francis Leroy, USN1953 - 1954
    09LT. Walkup, William Edwin, USN1954 - 4 October 1956
    10LT. Keller Jr., William Fager, USN4 October 1956 - 13 August 1958
    11LCDR. Zwolinski, Frank John, USN13 August 1958 - 1 July 1960
    12LT. Gibbs Jr., Charles Edward, USN1 July 1960 - 1962
    13LT. Gilbert, James Clarington, USN1962 - 11 December 1964
    14LT. Bender, Wayne Chester, USN11 December 1964 - 1965
    15LT. Gardner, Geoffrey Leland, USN (USNA 1955)1965 - 1966
    16LCDR. Ireland, Delbert Howard, USN1966 - 23 August 1968
    17LT. Sorensen, John Dale, USN23 August 1968 - July 1971
    18LCDR. Klein III, George Adam, USN (USNA 1966)July 1971 - 30 October 1972
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    Historical antidote contributed by Robert S. Gardner for his father
    National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
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