TF86

USS Mataco

Mataco86.jpg (49642 bytes) USS Mataco ATF 86 Circa 1960's (Contributed By Don Mosley)
mataco1.jpg (27226 bytes) USS Mataco ATF 86   Caught high & dry by ebbing tide after pulling LST's free from the beach at Inchon, Korea Circa 1950's (Contributed By Horace Mathis)
086matacoATF_1966.JPG (27274 bytes) USS Mataco ATF 86 Circa 1966 (Contributed By Craig Rothhammer)
USS Mataco ATF 86 "Dog Easy" Piers, Pearl Harbor Circa 1954 (Contributed By Phil Robare)
USS Mataco ATF 86 (Circa 1943)  From Commander August Billig collection, Mataco CO from 1944-1946. (Contributed By
Bruce Billig
)
USS Mataco ATF 86 (Circa 1943)  From Commander August Billig collection, Mataco CO from 1944-1946. (Contributed By
Bruce Billig
)
 USS Mataco ATF 86 (Circa 1943)  From Commander August Billig collection, Mataco CO from 1944-1946. (Contributed By
Bruce Billig
)
 USS Mataco ATF 86 Along side USS Gamble DMS (15) (Circa WW-II)  From Commander August Billig collection, Mataco CO from 1944-1946. (Contributed By Bruce Billig)
USS Mataco ATF 86 in San Diego (Circa 1956) (Contributed by Vern Jones)
USS Mataco ATF 86 Off San Diego circa 1977 (Contributed by Captain Bernie Flank)
USS Mataco ATF 86  Crew photo taken in San Diego circa 1977.   Note that the photo contributor (Captain Bernie Flank) is the Ensign with the beard on the left of the four Officers pictured.
USS Mataco ATF 86 News article about fleet tugs and their crews (Circa WW-II) (Contributed by Shirley "Gene" Myers via Lynn Cunningham)
 

Patches, Plaques and Memorabilia

USS Mataco ATF 86 Plaque
With more Mataco items

NAFTS, National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors