Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]research packet oh-packet.md (4 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED (identity exists, designation correct)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-190-lcil190-pkt-oh-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-190 page (10/15/150190) - construction, commissioning, campaign list, specifications, disposition; history credited to 'USS LCI "Landing Craft Infantry" Vol. II,' Turner Publishing Co. (1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150190.htm header block, campaign table, specifications block, photo caption
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull (Turner-derived NavSource history): LCI-1 class Landing Craft Infantry (Large); laid down 27 November 1942 at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Kearny, N.J.; launched 18 January 1943; commissioned USS LCI(L)-190, 3 February 1943, at Port Newark, N.J. Assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater; campaigns listed: Salerno landings 9-21 Sep 1943; West Coast of Italy operations - Anzio-Nettuno advanced landing 22 Jan-1 Mar 1944, Elba and Pianosa landings 17 Jun 1944; invasion of southern France 15 Aug-28 Sep 1944. Decommissioned, date unknown; struck from the Naval Register, date unknown; transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal, fate unknown. Reported as receiving three battle stars. Specifications: 216 t. light / 234 t. landing / 389 t. loaded; 158'5.5" x 23'3"; 16 kts max; complement 3 officers + 21 enlisted; troop capacity 6 officers + 182 enlisted; armament four single 20mm plus two .50 cal; propulsion two sets of four GM diesels, four per shaft, 1,600 bhp, twin variable-pitch propellers. International radio call sign NQSB. Photograph shows the craft moored outboard of USS LCI(L)-946, probably in North Africa.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- Federal Shipbuilding construction trades (1942-43); crew (1943-disposal); embarked Army troops (transient)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation; the narrative is credited to the Turner Publishing LCI veterans' history, not a primary registry. The campaign list omits the Sicily (E2) engagement credit shown for this hull in the 1953 Awards Manual (see ev-02 and ev-10), and the 'three battle stars' count conflicts with the manual's four star-bearing engagements. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-190-lcil190-01
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[3]Department of the Navy, Navy and Marine Corps Awards Manual (1953 revision), Part IV, Section 2-16 - 'List of Ships and Units eligible for Engagement Stars,' European-African-Middle Eastern Area (HyperWar transcription) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Awards-IV-16.html, EAME Area engagement-code table and 'LCI(L) 190' ship entry
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official awards manual lists LCI(L) 190 with engagement participation credits for: Sicilian occupation, 9-15 Jul 1943 (code E2); Salerno landings, 9-21 Sep 1943 (E3); Anzio-Nettuno advanced landings, 22 Jan 1944 and 24-25 Jan 1944 (E4-1); Elba and Pianosa landings, 16 Jun 1944 (E4-3 - the code table's defined date is 17 Jun 44); invasion of Southern France, 15-28 Aug 1944 (E7). Under the manual's rule that only one star is awarded for participation in one or more of the West Coast of Italy (E4) sub-engagements, this list spans four star-bearing engagement areas. No Pacific-area engagement credits appear for this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1944 (engagement windows)
- Population
- Crew of record during each engagement window
- Limitations
- Engagement-credit list, not a narrative history - establishes authorized participation dates for each operation, not what the craft did within them. HyperWar is a careful transcription of the 1953 GPO document; the ship's row shows '16 Jun 44' for the Elba/Pianosa credit while the manual's code definition gives 17 Jun 44. Star count is not printed per ship - 'four star-bearing areas' is a count of credited engagement groups, and it conflicts with NavSource's 'three battle stars' (see ev-10 and gaps).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-190-lcil190-02
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[4]NHHC, 'United States Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945' (official organization roster reproduction) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Landing Craft Flotillas, Pacific Fleet > LCI(L) Flotilla Thirty-Eight > Group 112 > Division 224 (p. ~86 of the reproduced document)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official Pacific Fleet organization roster as of 1 May 1945 lists 'LCI 190' under LCI(L) Division 224, LCI(L) Group 112, LCI(L) Flotilla Thirty-Eight, within the Landing Craft Flotillas of the Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet. The entry carries no commanding-officer annotation (shown as '..........'), matching other entries in the section.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- Crew of record, May 1945
- Limitations
- Roster snapshot only - establishes fleet/division assignment as of 1 May 1945, not location, operations, or engagements. The same hull number without qualifiers is consistent with this vessel (no other LCI 190 existed), but the roster prints 'LCI 190,' not the full 'LCI(L)-190' designation. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-190-lcil190-03
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[5]NARA Special List 44 - List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947 (ship-number sortation), PDF page 21 [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, PDF page 21, entry 'LCI(L)-190 4/1/1943 6/30/1945'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA inventories textual deck logs for LCI(L)-190 covering 1 April 1943 through 30 June 1945 - the span from just after commissioning through the end of the Mediterranean war and the start of Pacific assignment. The logs are not in NARA's published list of digitized deck logs (only the later minesweeper conversion Kestrel/LCI-874 appears under an LCI heading) and remain an undigitized textual lead at NARA.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1945 (coverage window)
- Population
- Crew of record, Apr 1943-Jun 1945
- Limitations
- Log-coverage dates are not service dates: commissioning (3 Feb 1943) precedes the first inventoried log month, and coverage ends 30 Jun 1945, before the ship's 1947 reserve-fleet transfer - the inventory bounds the archival record, not the hull's service life. Log contents were not examined; they may contain equipment/material detail but are not themselves an asbestos record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-190-lcil190-04
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[6]Samuel Eliot Morison, 'Elba Interlude, June 1944,' Military Affairs 21(4):182-187 (Winter 1957), doi:10.2307/1985595 (JSTOR) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- JSTOR stable 1985595; Military Affairs Vol. 21 No. 4 (Winter 1957), pp. 182-187; search excerpt quoting the LCI-190 passage
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official U.S. Navy WWII historian's published account of the Elba operation (Operation Brassard, June 1944) names 'U.S.S. LCI-190, fitted as a fire-fighter,' coming to the aid of LCI-132 after that craft took a direct hit during the landings. Independently corroborates this hull's Elba participation credited under awards code E4-3.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- Crew of record, June 1944 (Elba landing)
- Limitations
- Paywalled journal article - verified at search-excerpt and JSTOR metadata level (title, author, journal, volume, pages, DOI); the full text was not read. Morison's account is a published secondary history derived from primary operational records. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-190-lcil190-05
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[7]Era inference built on: NavSource specifications (two sets of four GM diesels, twin variable-pitch propellers - no steam plant); shipyard-exposure-map documented asbestos product list for federal-shipbuilding-kearny (1944 Owens-Illinois survey; Superex pipe covering, Kaylo, Garlock gaskets); GAO HRD-80-2 Navy asbestos program context [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specifications block; shipyards.json product list for federal-shipbuilding-kearny; GAO HRD-80-2 (ev-08)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel-powered infantry landing craft built 1942-43 at Federal Shipbuilding sits inside the Navy's and that builder's documented asbestos-use era; era-standard applications aboard a diesel craft of this type and period were engine and exhaust lagging, thermal insulation in machinery spaces, gaskets, valve packing, and electrical insulation. As a diesel craft she carried no steam plant - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply. LCIs were austere 158-foot landing ships with a 24-man crew plus embarked troops, so insulation scope was far smaller than aboard major combatants, but the confined engine-room exposure dynamic applies.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- Federal Shipbuilding construction trades (1942-43); engine-room crew (1943-disposal); NDRF/Maritime Commission handling trades (1947+)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for LCI(L)-190. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. Product names are normalized era terms; no manufacturer attribution for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-190-lcil190-06
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[8]Owens-Illinois, Inc., Industrial Health Survey of Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Kearny, NJ (Aug. 30-Sep. 2, 1944); introduced as Owens-Illinois interrogatory exhibit #20 in Heathman v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., Brazoria County TX (1990) - via ToxicDocs archive; carried in shipyard-exposure-map yards dataset (yard_id federal-shipbuilding-kearny, flagship row ev-federal-kearny-ihs-1944) [other_primary]
- Locator
- ToxicDocs scan of the 1944 survey (litigation exhibit #20); shipyards.json federal-shipbuilding-kearny evidence row ev-federal-kearny-ihs-1944
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Builder-level documentation of asbestos use in the wartime construction window: the August-September 1944 Owens-Illinois industrial health survey of Federal Shipbuilding's Kearny, NJ yard documented insulators cutting and fitting Johns-Manville Superex asbestos pipe covering and boiler insulation in confined shipyard spaces, with dust counts measured during cutting and fitting operations. Hull 343 (LCI(L)-190) was built at the same company's Port Newark yard and delivered January 1943 - within the same wartime insulation practices documented at the sister yard the following year.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944 (survey window; construction period 1942-43)
- Population
- Federal Shipbuilding insulators, pipefitters, and construction trades (1942-45 window)
- Limitations
- Yard-level survey of the Kearny yard, not a hull record: documents asbestos insulation practice at Federal's Kearny site; shipbuildinghistory flags this hull's construction yard 'N' (Port Newark) - same operator and product stream, different physical yard. The survey was conducted by Owens-Illinois, a manufacturer with commercial interest; it documents product use, not worker health outcomes. Does not establish materials aboard this hull, individual exposure, or quantity.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-190-lcil190-07
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[9]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2 (full text blocked, HTTP 403)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented that the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships and did not begin substituting alternative insulation materials until the early 1970s - spanning this hull's entire construction (1942-43) and service era (1943-47).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403, confirmed 2026-09-29) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-190-lcil190-08
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[10]Batch-4989 search ledger (this record): NavSource; NARA Special List 44 PDF; NARA digitized-log list; NHHC Pacific Fleet organization 1 May 1945; 1953 Awards Manual (HyperWar); shipbuildinghistory Federal table; DANFS candidate URLs; NVR; JSTOR; CourtListener; secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-190-lcil190-01 through -12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or verified litigation naming USS LCI(L)-190 was found in the public sources searched. DANFS has no entry for this hull (the series covers selected landing craft only - e.g., LCI(L)-513); the Naval Vessel Register returns no record (hull disposed 1947, decades before NVR coverage). CourtListener returned zero opinions for "LCI(L)-190" and zero dockets for the hull-designation variants (see sl-08); one additional variant opinion sweep was refused by the fleet pacer and remains unrun.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard. The undigitized NARA deck logs (Apr 1943-Jun 1945) and any Federal Shipbuilding work packages or NDRF custody records are open archival leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-190-lcil190-09
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[11]Correction built on: 1953 Awards Manual LCI(L) 190 engagement list (E2 Sicily through E7 Southern France) vs. NavSource campaign table and 'three battle stars' display for the same hull [other_primary]
- Locator
- Awards-IV-16.html 'LCI(L) 190' entry; NavSource 10/15/150190.htm campaign table and ribbon display
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- CORRECTION: NavSource's campaign table and 'three battle stars' display omit the hull's officially credited Sicily participation. The 1953 Awards Manual credits LCI(L) 190 with the Sicilian occupation engagement (E2, 9-15 Jul 1943) in addition to Salerno (E3), Anzio-Nettuno (E4-1), Elba-Pianosa (E4-3), and Southern France (E7) - four star-bearing engagement areas under the manual's one-star-per-E4 rule, vs. NavSource's three-star display. The Sicily credit is consistent with Mediterranean assignment from mid-1943 and with the deck-log coverage opening April 1943.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1944 (credit windows); 1953 (manual publication)
- Limitations
- Corrects a campaign/battle-star enumeration, not a material claim. The manual lists engagements, not a printed star count - the four-star inference follows the manual's own aggregation rule but is not a printed figure. Whether the hull wore three or four stars is unresolved in the record sources located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-190-lcil190-10