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Photo # NH 98995:  USS Taussig underway off Oahu, Hawaii, 10 May 1963

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USS Taussig (DD-746), 1944-1974

USS Taussig, a 2200-ton Allen M. Sumner class destroyer built at Staten Island, New York, was commissioned in May 1944. Following shakedown and training in the western Atlantic and Caribbean, she transited the Panama Canal in September and, after more training, arrived in the Pacific war zone in October 1944. Operating with the fast aircraft carriers during the rest of the year, she participated in combat operations in the Philippines area and the South China Sea. Her carrier screening duties continued in 1945, during which she helped cover the invasions of Luzon, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and a series of raids against the Japanese Home Islands. In March she used her guns to bombard Okino Daito Shima and, during the following months off Okinawa, these weapons were regularly employed against Japanese aircraft.

With the Pacific War over, Taussig returned to the United States in October 1945, but steamed back across the Pacific in February 1946 to begin the first of sixteen Far Eastern deployments over the next twenty-three years. That cruise, which ended in March 1947, was followed by training ship service off the West Coast. The destroyer's next session in the western Pacific began in May 1950, lasted until early 1951, and included active participation in the Korean War, which began in late June. Taussig made two more combat cruises off Korea, one in August 1951 - May 1952 and the second from November 1952 until July 1953. Eight more tours in Asian waters followed during the next ten years, punctuated by service in the eastern Pacific and, in 1962, by a major "FRAM II" modernization that greatly changed her appearance.

Taussig's involvement in her third armed conflict began during her thirteenth post-World War II Far Eastern cruise, which ran from October 1964 to May 1965, when she briefly supported Vietnam War aircraft carrier operations. Her following three deployments, in April-November 1966, January-June 1968 and June-October 1969, included active service off Vietnam providing naval gunfire support for forces ashore, screening carriers and covering amphibious operations. In 1970, while preparing for another "WestPac" tour, Taussig fell victim to the then-ongoing effort to reduce the size of the active fleet. She was decommissioned at the beginning of December 1970 and placed in the Pacific Reserve Fleet. Stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in September 1973, Taussig was sold to the Republic of China in May 1974. Renamed Lo Yang, she served in the Taiwanese Navy until the beginning of the Twenty-First Century.

USS Taussig was named in honor of Rear Admiral Edward D. Taussig (1847-1921), whose long career began during the Civil War and extended through the First World War.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Taussig (DD-746).


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Photo #: NH 98993

USS Taussig
(DD-746)

Underway during the later 1940s or early 1950s.
This image was received by the Naval Photographic Center in December 1959, but was taken about a decade earlier.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 595 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98994

USS Taussig
(DD-746)

Operating at sea, 1 April 1957.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 605 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98995

USS Taussig
(DD-746)

Underway off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii, 10 May 1963.
Taken by PH2 Francis L. Antoine, USN.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 111KB; 600 x 765 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98946

USS Taussig
(DD-746)

Underway at sea, 13 January 1965.
Photographed by PH3 L.E. Cannon.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 95KB; 740 x 600 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 82517

USS Klondike
(AR-22)

In Subic Bay, Philippines, on 1 November 1963. The destroyers alongside, all "FRAM II" types of Destroyer Squadron 15, are: (from inboard to outboard):
USS Taussig (DD-746);
USS John A. Bole (DD-755);
USS Lofberg (DD-759); and
USS John W. Thomason (DD-760).

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 153KB; 740 x 615 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 82518

USS Klondike
(AR-22)

In Subic Bay, Philippines, on 1 November 1963. The destroyers alongside, all "FRAM II" types of Destroyer Squadron 15, are: (from inboard to outboard):
USS Taussig (DD-746);
USS John A. Bole (DD-755);
USS Lofberg (DD-759); and
USS John W. Thomason (DD-760).

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 123KB; 740 x 620 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98996

USS Taussig
(DD-746)

Ship's officers posed on her helicopter deck, circa 1970.
Note the flag, featuring a tiger emblem.

This photograph was received from USS Taussig prior to February 1971.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 121KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 
Photo #: USN 1143149

USS Taussig
(DD-746)

Seaman L.J. Kusak and Senior Chief Gunner's Mate A.A. Epperson, both of USS Dixie (AD-14), install a new 5"/38 gun in one of Taussig's gun mounts, at Subic Bay, Philippines, 1969.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

Online Image: 79KB; 595 x 765 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1143149.

 


In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other photographs of USS Taussig (DD-746). The following list features some of these views:

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".



  • Photo #: 80-G-235560
    USS Taussig (DD-746) underway at high speed off New York, 4 June 1944.
    Photographed from a Naval Air Station New York aircraft.
    Starboard bow high aerial view.

  • Photo #: 80-G-235561
    As 80-G-235560, but port broadside high aerial view.

  • Photo #: 80-G-235562
    As 80-G-235560, but port quarter high aerial view. The ship's after smokestack is producing a fair amount of light grey smoke.


  • Photo #: 80-G-438054
    USS Taussig (DD-746) pulling away from USS Sicily (CVE-118), in Korean waters, 16 December 1950. Photographed by PHSN L.Y. Coria.
    Port quarter high surface view (taken from about the height of Taussig's foremast yardarm).

  • Photo #: 80-G-433812
    USS Taussig (DD-746) steaming through the channel in Shimonseki District, Kammon Ko, at the western entrance to Japan's Inland Sea. The ship was returning from Wonsan, Korea. Photographed by AFAN E.A. McDade, this image was received by the Naval Photographic Center on 16 October 1951.
    Port quarter surface view (more toward the side than the stern).

  • Photo #: 80-G-444879
    USS Taussig (DD-746) coming alongside USS Boxer (CV-21) to transfer personnel, 14 April 1952. Photographed by J.E. Redwood.
    Port bow surface view, probably taken in Far Eastern waters.

  • Photo #: USN 1045466
    USS Taussig (DD-746) underway, circa the early 1950s. Photo was received by the Naval Photographic Center in December 1959, but was taken much earlier in the decade.
    Starboard bow aerial view.

  • Photo #: USN 1039353
    USS Taussig (DD-746) underway, with her radioactive fallout washdown system in operation spraying water over her main deck and superstructure. Photo was received by the Naval Photographic Center on 9 December 1958, and may have been taken at about that time.
    Starboard bow low aerial view.

  • Photo #: USN 1078701
    USS Taussig (DD-746) at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, October 1959.
    Starboard bow surface view.


    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."


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