Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet fs-packet.md (1 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: Glennon | Hull: DD-620 | Designation: destroyer, first Navy ship of the name
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-glennon-dd620-pkt-fs-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Glennon I (DD-620) (namesake biography, spec block, builder, dates, service narrative, loss, casualties, battle stars; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page returns 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, spec block + service narrative (ibiblio HyperWar transcription)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched 26 August 1942 by Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Kearny, N.J.; sponsored by Miss Jeanne Lejeune Glennon, granddaughter of Rear Admiral James H. Glennon; commissioned 8 October 1942, Lt. Comdr. Floyd C. Camp. Sicily occupation convoy guard 9-15 July 1943; Atlantic/Gibraltar convoy escort through April 1944; Assault Force 'U', Western Naval Task Force, Baie de la Seine 6 June 1944; 430 5-inch shells fired in support 7 June; stern struck a mine 0830, 8 June (per DANFS) under Comdr. Clifford A. Johnson; assisted by minesweepers Stay/Threat (later Staff) - USS Rich (DE-695) mined and sunk alongside; salvage effort 8-10 June; German battery near Quineville hit the ship on 10 June, power lost, abandoned; capsized and sank 2145, 10 June 1944; 25 lost and 38 wounded; two battle stars. Spec block: dp 1,620; 348'4"; 36'1"; 17'4"; 37.5k; cpl 270; 4x5", 2x40mm, 5x20mm, 5x21"tt, 6 dcp, 2 dct; cl. Gleaves.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-1944
- Population
- Federal Shipbuilding construction trades 1942; wartime crew (design complement 270)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Spec block carries no laid-down date and no stricken date (both carried from NavSource, ev-03). Mine-strike time 0830 conflicts with the commanding officer's 0803 (ev-02) - discrepancy logged, not reconciled. Mirror transcription cited because live NHHC pages return 404.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-glennon-dd620-01
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[3]Narrative of Commander Clifford A. Johnson, USN, former commanding officer, USS Glennon (DD-620), dated 13 July 1944 (HyperWar transcription of the CO's firsthand loss account) [other_primary]
- Locator
- HyperWar transcript, Johnson narrative (dd620-Johnson), loss-sequence paragraphs
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Firsthand account by the ship's last commanding officer: ship strafed in Palermo harbor 31 July 1943 (16 wounded); seventeen convoy crossings completed with no escorted ship lost; departed New York 6 May 1944 with Destroyer Squadron 17 and USS Plunkett escorting USS Quincy; Belfast staging; led the Utah-beach shore-bombardment group approach; mine detonation under the port quarter at 0803 on 8 June 1944, after section parting ~50 feet from the stern; salvage attempts (tow, shaft-cutting plan) overruled then partially reinstated; ~60-man crew reboarded 9 June; German battery opened fire ~0700 on 10 June, second salvo hit the after engine room; eleven shell hits ultimately counted; abandon-ship by LCM; ship listed heavily ~2200 and sank shortly thereafter.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-1944 (narrated events); 1944-07-13 (statement)
- Population
- USS Glennon crew, June 1944; assisting vessels (Staff, Threat, Rich, LST-381)
- Limitations
- Eyewitness narrative (transcribed oral statement), not the formal action report; contains no materials or asbestos information. Time of mine strike 0803 differs from DANFS 0830; NY departure 6 May differs from DANFS 5 May - both discrepancies logged in gaps. Total casualty figures not restated in the narrative.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-glennon-dd620-02
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[4]NavSource Destroyer Photo Index, USS Glennon (DD-620) - Operational and Building Data block [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DD-620 page, 'Operational and Building Data' block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource building/operations block for this hull: laid down by Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny, N.J., 25 March 1942; launched 26 August 1942; commissioned 8 October 1942; struck mine off Normandy 8 June 1944; sunk by shore batteries 10 June 1944; stricken 29 July 1944; 25 of her crew lost. Launch, commission, and loss dates agree exactly with DANFS; laid-down and stricken dates fill fields DANFS omits.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-1944
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Volunteer-compiled archival index - secondary compilation, not a digitized register page; laid-down (25 Mar 1942) and stricken (29 Jul 1944) dates are consistent across secondary sources (NavSource, NavalCoverMuseum, Wikipedia) but not verified against an official NVR/BuShips page. Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-glennon-dd620-03
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[5]NHHC Online Library image captions, 'USN Ships - USS Glennon (DD-620)' (photos NH 44311; 80-G-46072; transcribed on HyperWar) [other_primary]
- Locator
- ibiblio mirror of NHHC Online Library photo page usnsh-g/dd620
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NHHC Online Library ship summary and official-photo captions for this hull: 1,630-ton Gleaves-class destroyer built at Kearny, N.J.; commissioned October 1942; 1943 convoy work for the Italy campaign; off Utah Beach on D-Day; mined 8 June, immobilized; USS Rich mined and sunk while assisting; two-day salvage effort; hit by German artillery fire 10 June; capsized and sank that evening; 25 crew lost. Photo 80-G-46072 (ship underway) released for publication 1 August 1944 'probably in connection with the announcement of Glennon's loss'; photo NH 44311 shows the stern-blown ship with Rich, a PT boat, a British motor launch, and an Auk-class minesweeper standing by.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-1944; photo release 1944-08-01
- Population
- Wartime crew; assisting vessels' crews
- Limitations
- Caption-level summary consistent with DANFS; adds no asbestos or materials data. Live NHHC URLs unresolved (standing NHHC link-rot defect); ibiblio mirror cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-glennon-dd620-04
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[6]Owens-Illinois, Industrial Health Survey of Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Kearny, N.J. (Aug. 30-Sep. 2, 1944) - per Atlas shipyards.json record 'federal-shipbuilding-kearny' (tier 2); plus Gleaves-class machinery summary per benson-gleaves-class profile (DANFS-type/BuShips figures) [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipyards.json 'federal-shipbuilding-kearny' evidence ev-federal-kearny-ihs-1944; benson-gleaves-class.class.json propulsion_summary; shipbuildinghistory.com Federal hull list row 224
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: DD-620 was built at Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny, during the yard's wartime destroyer run (yard hull 224, delivered 8 Oct 1942 per shipbuildinghistory.com hull list). The Atlas yard record documents an Owens-Illinois industrial health survey of that same yard (Aug 30-Sep 2, 1944) recording insulators cutting and fitting Johns-Manville Superex asbestos pipe covering and boiler insulation in confined spaces - the yard environment in which this hull was built two years earlier. A Gleaves-class hull carried 4 Babcock & Wilcox superheated boilers and geared steam turbines (~50,000 shp), machinery of the era standardly fitted with asbestos insulation, lagging, gaskets, packing, and fireproofing.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942 (construction); 1944 (yard survey)
- Population
- Federal Shipbuilding construction trades, Kearny, 1942; wartime crew (270)
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - the 1944 survey postdates this hull's 1942 construction and documents yard practice, not this ship's bill of materials. No contract spec, material schedule, or hull survey names DD-620. Not a ship-specific finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-glennon-dd620-05
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[7]E. Andrew Wilde, Jr., 'The USS Glennon (DD-620) in World War II: Documents and Photographs' (privately published 1999, rev. 2001; hosted by the Destroyer History Foundation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- destroyerhistory.org Wilde PDF, 'List of Pages' (p. 5); per-section document titles
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- 228-page compiled collection reproducing official records for this hull: commissioning muster roll (plankowners, 10/8/42) and officer lists; action reports for Sicily gunfire support (7/11/43) and the Palermo air raid (8/1/43); war diaries (10/21-22/43 Murphy rescue; 6/6-8/44); the Operation Neptune loss-of-ship action report (14 sheets / 24 sides); Lt.(jg) Gustavus R. Ide Jr. narrative; 6/8/44 muster roll; and the Johnson narrative also transcribed on HyperWar. Its photo index also places the ship at New York Navy Yard on 10/22/42 (post-commissioning availability window), the basis for the brooklyn-navy-yard related_shipyards link. The loss action report and war diaries are the authoritative records of the sinking; NARA RG 38 (action reports/war diaries) and RG 19 General Information Books are the underlying repositories for any hull-level material specifications.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-1944 (documents); 1999-2001 (compilation)
- Population
- USS Glennon crew (muster rolls 10/8/42, 6/30/43, 6/8/44)
- Limitations
- Private compilation; PDF is image-only (no text layer) - contents verified against the compiler's own list of pages, not page-by-page against NARA originals. No asbestos/materials content is expected or asserted; value is as a pointer to the underlying official records.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-glennon-dd620-06
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[8]CourtListener API v4 sweeps, 'USS Glennon' (type=o: 0 hits; type=r: 1 docket) - Tilford v. Crane Company, No. 1:17-cv-00458 (D. Haw.), '368 P.I. : Asbestos', filed 2017-09-13, terminated 2019-10-21 [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener search API v4, q='USS Glennon' type=o (0 results) and type=r (Tilford docket 6181150, notice of removal ECF 1)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Litigation sweep for this hull: zero CourtListener opinion hits for 'USS Glennon'; one RECAP docket match, Tilford v. Crane Company (D. Haw. 2017-2019), an asbestos personal-injury removal action in which 'USS Glennon' appears in indexed docket text. Hull attribution unresolved - 'USS Glennon' in a 2017-vintage asbestos complaint could name DD-620 (in service 1942-44) or DD-840 (Gearing class, in service 1945-76); given latency, a postwar-service hull (DD-840) is the more plausible referent in modern litigation. No qualifying asbestos litigation naming DD-620 was located.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2017-2019 (litigation)
- Population
- Unverified from index
- Limitations
- At most a pleading-stage vessel reference inside a removal docket; unadjudicated and hull-unattributed (DD-620 vs DD-840 collision unresolved - complaint attachment not in RECAP, only the 8-page notice of removal is). A docket-text name match is not a finding that this hull contained asbestos or exposed anyone.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-glennon-dd620-07
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[9]Batch-3593 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS (live 404; ibiblio mirror), NHHC Online Library photo captions, NavSource, Destroyer History Foundation, shipbuildinghistory.com Federal yard list, Wilde document compilation, CourtListener opinion and RECAP sweeps [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-glennon-dd620-01 through sl-uss-glennon-dd620-08
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, material inventory, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed exposure case naming DD-620 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull sank in 1944 and was never decommissioned, laid up, preserved, or scrapped at a yard - the usual sources of later asbestos documentation do not exist for this vessel.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - era/yard evidence (ev-05) is consistent with standard wartime asbestos insulation practice. Does not establish that asbestos is or is not present; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-glennon-dd620-08