USS Sioux, a 1646-ton tug built at Alameda, California, was placed in commission in December 1942. She was reclassified a fleet tug and redesignated ATF-75 in May 1944. During her first two and a half years of active service Sioux supported the Pacific Fleet as it advanced up from the southern Pacific to the Philippines, raided the Japanese Home Islands and assaulted Iwo Jima and Okinawa. On 14 May 1945, she used her guns to sink an enemy "Kaiten" human torpedo. Following the end of the war she continued towing work in the western Pacific and supported the mid-1946 atomic bomb tests at Bikini, in the Marshall Islands. USS Sioux was placed out of commission in April 1947 and spent the next half-decade at San Diego, California, as part of the Pacific Reserve Fleet.
Sioux recommissioned in mid-October 1952, beginning twenty years of operations out of San Diego. Up to 1965 her travels regularly took her to both the northern and western Pacific. After that she mainly deployed to the latter area, performing logistics and surveillance missions during the Vietnam War. Decommissioned at the end of October 1972, Sioux was transferred to Turkey. Renamed Gazal, she had more that three more decades of service as a unit of that nation's navy.
This page features all the views we have concerning USS Sioux (ATF-75, originally AT-75).
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In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Sioux (ATF-75). The following list features some of these images:
The images listed below are NOT in
the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our
page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".
USS Sioux (ATF-75) alongside a pier, 3 September 1953. Starboard bow surface view. USS Sioux (ATF-75) underway in November 1963. Photographed by PH2 Larry M. Lindberg, of Naval Station San Diego, California. Port bow surface view, taken from about the height of Sioux' foremast searchlight platform. USS Sioux (ATF-75) underway on 22 June 1964, towing what appears to be a target raft. Starboard bow low aerial view, taken from about the height of Sioux' foremast head.
Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center. The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions". |
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 7 September 2004