Evidence
13 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-13).
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[1]research packet 405-packet.md (5 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS LCI(L)-322 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Navy_Landing_Craft_Infantry
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-322-lcil322-pkt-405-packet-md
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[2]U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office, 'USS LCI(L)-322' ship history page [other_primary]
- Locator
- Full page: narrative paragraphs and specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office ship history for this hull: built by Brown Shipbuilding Corporation; commissioned 15 February 1943; Coast Guard-manned under LT Grant C. Kidston, USCG (later LTJG W. L. Brown, USCGR); shakedown at Galveston, amphibious training at Solomons Island MD; North Africa and Lake Bizerte service; Sicily and Salerno landings; England and Normandy preparation; Utah Beach 6 June 1944 and Channel crossings through 12 July 1944; stateside overhaul (narrative places it at Merrill-Stevens, Jacksonville); Pacific service with Flotilla 35 (Saipan, Tinian, Eniwetok, Guam, Saipan, Ulithi, Peleliu); returned to Long Beach and decommissioned there 26 March 1946; transferred to the Maritime Commission 9 October 1947. Specifications block: 158 ft 6 in overall, 23 ft 3 in beam, 216 tons light / 234 tons beaching / 389 tons full load, eight GM diesels on twin shafts (four per shaft) at 1,600 hp, 15.5 knots top speed, 4,000 miles at 12 knots, complement 3 officers + 21 enlisted, 188 troops, 75 tons cargo, four single 20mm plus two .50-caliber guns. Four WWII battle stars credited.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1947 (construction through MARCOM transfer)
- Population
- Ship's crew (Coast Guard-manned: complement 3 officers + 21 enlisted per this source); embarked troops (up to 188)
- Limitations
- Official USCG history of a Coast Guard-manned Navy hull; contains no materials or asbestos information. Internal defect: the page's infobox prints builder location as 'Orange, Texas' while its own narrative says Houston, Texas - Houston corroborated by NavSource and shipbuildinghistory and carried here; variant logged in gaps. Several spec figures (complement 3+21, 1,600 hp, 389 t full load) differ from the NavSource transcription - variants logged in gaps, not merged. Direct HTTP fetch of this .mil page returns 403 to automated clients; content verified via Firecrawl render 2026-09-29.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-322-lcil322-01
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[3]NARA Catalog, file unit 'LCI(L)-322 - War Diary, 12/1/44 to 5/31/45' (NAID 140060348), Record Group 38 World War II War Diaries (Fold3/NARA digitization), micro serial 127319, registration no. 14963 [other_primary]
- Locator
- All six pages of the digitized file unit read in full (catalog images 1-6)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Digitized primary war diary for this hull, six monthly submissions (December 1944 through May 1945) signed by W. L. Brown, Commanding, submitted 18 June 1945 to Commander-in-Chief U.S. Fleet, copies to Commandant USCG, Commander Flotilla 35, Commander Group 104. December 1944: moored at no. 1 Marine Lift, Merrill Stevens Shipyard, Jacksonville FL 1-12 Dec 'undergoing major overhaul'; Charleston S.C. Navy Yard Pier J4 15-21 Dec 'undergoing repairs, and taking on supplies'; Little Creek Va. 25 Dec; Solomons Island amphibious training 27-29 Dec; Norfolk Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Berkeley (Norfolk) Va. 31 Dec 'undergoing necessary repairs'. January 1945: Norfolk repairs to 2 Jan; departed as member of T.U. 20.19.14 with LCI(L) 89 and LCI(L) 349 via Key West and Coco Solo C.Z.; underway to San Diego 20-31 Jan. February 1945: Naval Repair Base San Diego 'emergency repairs' and dockside training 1-15 Feb; training cruise off California 16-20 Feb. March 1945: NRB San Diego 'undergoing overhaul' 7-21 Mar; Port Hueneme temporary duty 23-31 Mar. April 1945: San Diego; departed 20 April enroute Pearl Harbor (T.U. 06.11.43), moored West Loch 15, Pearl Harbor 30 April. May 1945: Eniwetok Atoll 18-21 May; beached at Submarine Base, Apra Harbor, Guam 26-29 May; anchored Saipan Harbor 31 May, reported to Commander T.U. 94.7.2.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-12-01 to 1945-05-31
- Population
- Ship's crew during the Dec 1944 - May 1945 transit period; shipyard trades at Merrill Stevens (Jacksonville), Charleston Navy Yard, Norfolk Shipbuilding & Dry Dock (Berkeley VA), and Naval Repair Base San Diego
- Limitations
- Primary ship-generated operational record, but it is a movement/status diary only - it names the yards and characterizes the work ('major overhaul', 'repairs', 'emergency repairs', 'overhaul') without any materials, insulation, or asbestos content. Resolves the USCG-vs-NavSource overhaul-location discrepancy: both occurred in sequence (Merrill Stevens Jacksonville major overhaul 1-12 Dec 1944, then Charleston Navy Yard repairs 15-21 Dec 1944) - secondary sources each caught one leg. Departure for the Pacific dated 20 April 1945 here, conflicting with NavSource's 28 April 1945 - primary record carried.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-322-lcil322-02
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[4]NARA Catalog, file unit 'LCI(L)-322 - War Diary, 6/1-30/45' (NAID 101726389), RG 38 World War II War Diaries (Fold3/NARA digitization), registration no. 18111, micro serial 130492 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Single image of the digitized file unit read in full
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Digitized June 1945 war diary for this hull (single page), signed W. L. Brown, Commanding, submitted 1 July 1945: anchored Saipan Harbor with LCI(L) 89, 95, 583, and 324, assigned Task Unit 94.7.2; 1-10 June 'general duty including: Air Sea Rescue, Submarine escort, fishing craft escort'; 11-16 June upkeep in Saipan Harbor; 17-21 June submarine escort duty; 22-26 June Saipan-Tinian dispatch duty; 27-30 June submarine escort work.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-06-01 to 1945-06-30
- Population
- Ship's crew, June 1945 Saipan operations
- Limitations
- Operational diary only - no materials or asbestos content. Sibling monthly war-diary file units for this hull exist in the same series for 7/45 (NAID 101766361), 8/45 (NAID 77542421), 9/45 (NAID 77532067), and 10/45 (NAID 77559655); located but not retrieved this session.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-322-lcil322-03
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[5]NARA RG 24 Muster Rolls: 'LCI(L) 332 - Muster Rolls' file unit (NAID 120168863), image 81 - the cross-filed LCI(L)-322 October 1944 roll; index card in 'USS K-1 (SSK-1) to USS LCI(R)-651' (NAID 118967602), approx. image 587, microfilm roll BX2598 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAID 120168863 image 81 of 127 (the cross-filed Oct-1944 LCI(L)-322 roll); NAID 118967602 ~image 587 (LCI(L)-322 index card noting cross-filing to LCI(L)-332)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Digitized primary personnel record: the October 1944 muster roll of 'the crew of the U. S. Coast Guard LCI(L) 322' (NAVPERS 605(a) U.S. Coast Guard form) lists 27 enlisted men by name, rate, and service number with monthly remarks; approved 1 November 1944 and signed 'G. C. Kidston, Lieut., USCG / Commanding, USS LCI(L) 322'; stamped received by the Muster Roll Unit. The roll is filed inside a sister hull's record: the RG-24 index card for LCI(L)-322 (marked 'USS COAST GUARD', microfilm BX2598) states 'MUSTER ROOL [sic] OCTOBER 44 FILED WITH LCI (L) 332', and the roll was located within the digitized 'LCI(L) 332 - Muster Rolls' file unit (127 images) at image 81.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- October 1944
- Population
- 27 enlisted Coast Guard crew aboard end of October 1944 (roster by name in roll)
- Limitations
- Personnel roster only - contains no materials or asbestos information. Documents actual aboard strength (27 enlisted) at end of October 1944, which exceeds both published complement figures (USCG 21 enlisted; NavSource 24 enlisted) - onboard strength vs authorized complement are different measures; figures not merged. Signature confirms LT G. C. Kidston, USCG still commanding 1 November 1944, consistent with NavSource's CO-table transition date of 17 November 1944 to LTJG W. L. Brown.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-322-lcil322-04
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[6]National Archives, Special List No. 44 - List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units (ship-number section), PDF page 22 [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf p. 22, two rows for LCI(L)-322 (verified by PDF text extraction)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA Special List 44 (ship-number sequence) inventories Navy deck logs for this hull in two coverage rows on PDF page 22: 'LCI(L)-322 2/15/1943 3/2/1944' and 'LCI(L)-322 8/1/1944 6/30/1945' - that is, deck-log holdings spanning commissioning through March 1944 and August 1944 through June 1945, with a March-August 1944 coverage gap that includes the Normandy period. These are log-coverage dates only, not commissioning/decommissioning dates.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-02-15 to 1945-06-30 (inventoried log coverage)
- Limitations
- Inventories the existence of deck-log holdings only - the logs themselves are not digitized and were not retrieved; their contents (which would include any materiel remarks) are unexamined. Coverage has a gap: no logs listed 3/2/1944 - 8/1/1944 (the period including Normandy operations). The supplied batch brief listed only the first row; the second coverage row was located during this pass.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-322-lcil322-05
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[7]Naval History and Heritage Command, 'United States Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945' (Navy Department Library online reading room transcription) [other_primary]
- Locator
- LCI(L) GROUP 104 listing within the Pacific Fleet organization page
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC's official United States Pacific Fleet Organization document dated 1 May 1945 lists 'LCI 322' under LCI(L) GROUP 104 with 'Lt. (jg) W. L. Brown (USCGR)' - official corroboration of this hull's Pacific assignment and commanding officer at that date.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1945-05-01
- Limitations
- Administrative organization listing only - names hull and CO, contains no materials or asbestos information. Direct HTTP fetch of history.navy.mil returns 404 to automated clients; content verified via Firecrawl render 2026-09-29.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-322-lcil322-06
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[8]Corn, Jacqueline Karnell, and Jennifer Starr, 'Historical perspective on asbestos: Policies and protective measures in World War II shipbuilding,' American Journal of Industrial Medicine 11(3):359-373 (1987) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Abstract and article, AJIM 11(3):359-373
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Peer-reviewed scholarship documents that asbestos was used extensively as a fireproofing and insulating material in U.S. shipbuilding during World War II - the era and program under which this 1942-43 naval landing craft was built - and that wartime demand drove unprecedented asbestos utilization in ship construction.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1940s era documented; article 1987
- Population
- WWII shipyard workers and ship crews (class context)
- Limitations
- Program/era-level documentation of asbestos use in WWII shipbuilding generally; does not name this vessel or the LCI(L) type and does not establish that asbestos was aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-322-lcil322-07
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[9]NavSource Amphibious Photo Archive LCI(L)-322 page, Specifications block (propulsion section) + NARA war diary NAID 140060348 (documented yard availabilities) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource USS LCI(L)-322 page 'Specifications' block; war diary monthly pages Dec 1944 - Mar 1945
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- The LCI(L) was a diesel-powered beaching craft: the class specification records eight GM 6051-series-71 diesel engines (four per shaft) with twin variable-pitch propellers and diesel-driven service generators - no boilers and no steam system. The era's dominant shipboard asbestos applications (boiler and steam-line lagging) were therefore absent by design on this craft type; residual era-typical candidate materials on a diesel landing craft (engine-exhaust/muffler lagging, gaskets, packing, electrical insulation, joiner and deck materials, coatings) are not documented for this hull. The ship's own war diaries document repeated shipyard availabilities - Merrill Stevens Shipyard Jacksonville (major overhaul, Dec 1944), Charleston Navy Yard (Dec 1944), Norfolk Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Berkeley (Dec 1944-Jan 1945), and Naval Repair Base San Diego (emergency repairs Feb 1945, overhaul Mar 1945) - periods during which insulation work could have occurred, but no materials content appears in any retrieved document.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1945
- Population
- Engine-room crew (diesel machinery spaces); construction trades (Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, 1942-43); yard trades at four documented availabilities 1944-45
- Limitations
- The diesel configuration is documented; the asbestos-relevant material content aboard is not. Absence of boilers/steam removes the largest era-typical asbestos mass, but era-typical smaller applications (exhaust lagging, gaskets, electrical insulation, coatings) are plausible and undocumented - this row bounds the inference, it does not establish presence or absence. The specification block is an unofficial NavSource transcription; no BuShips materials list for this hull was located (RG-19 drawings exist per NAID 175662807, not digitized).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-322-lcil322-08
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[10]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2 (report reviewed Navy asbestos use aboard ships and shipyard removal practices at Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented that the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships; the 1975 Navy policy was to remove and replace only damaged asbestos insulation or insulation removed during necessary repairs, and a 1979 policy expanded replacement in high-maintenance areas - program-level context spanning the era in which this hull was built and served.
- 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 - LCI(L)-322 is not named and the yards reviewed (Long Beach, Norfolk Naval Shipyards) are not among this hull's documented availabilities. Direct fetch of gao.gov returns 403 to automated clients; content verified via Firecrawl render 2026-09-29.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-322-lcil322-09
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[11]CourtListener API v4 search, type=o, queries '"LCI(L)-322"' (0 hits) and '"LCI 322" asbestos' (0 hits), authenticated helper, 2026-09-30 [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-322-lcil322-09 and -10
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener API v4 (authenticated) searches on 2026-09-30 located no qualifying litigation naming this vessel: opinion search '"LCI(L)-322"' returned zero hits, and opinion search '"LCI 322" asbestos' returned zero hits. No asbestos opinion or docket naming USS LCI(L)-322 or this hull was found in the queries completed.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- accessed 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- Two of the required query variants completed with zero hits; remaining variants ('"LCI-322"', '"USS LCI(L)-322"', hull-number docket search type=r) were blocked by the fleet-wide pacing limiter at session time and are logged as blocked, not as negative results - the litigation sweep is incomplete. Crew asbestos claims in any case would typically name defendants (builders, manufacturers, operators), not the hull number, so hull-name negatives do not establish that crew members never filed claims.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-322-lcil322-10
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[12]Batch-5043 search ledger (this record): USCG Historian's Office; NavSource; NARA catalog (war diaries NAID 140060348 + monthly units, muster rolls NAID 120168863, index cards NAID 118967602, RG-19 drawings NAID 175662807, RG-26 war diary NAID 199928693); NARA Special List 44; NHHC Pacific Fleet Organization and DANFS/casualty-list checks; shipbuildinghistory; GAO; CourtListener (partially blocked); USS LCI National Association newsletter [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-322-lcil322-01 through -17
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located. No DANFS entry exists for this hull. The unusually rich primary record actually retrieved - six monthly war-diary submissions (Dec 1944-May 1945), the June 1945 war diary, and the October 1944 muster roll - contains no mention of asbestos, insulation, or material content despite documenting four shipyard availabilities. No asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or verified litigation naming USS LCI(L)-322 was found in the sources searched. Marketing/law-firm pages asserting Brown Shipbuilding or LCI asbestos exposure exist but are excluded by source policy (non-authoritative, no primary sourcing).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- Absence of a located record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - the deck logs remain undigitized and unexamined, RG-19 drawings and the RG-26 Coast Guard war diary were not retrieved, and no BuShips materials specification for this hull was located. A negative finding is a documentation result, not evidence of absence of exposure or of eligibility/ineligibility for any claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-322-lcil322-11
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[13]NARA Catalog file units NAID 175662807 (RG-19), NAID 199928693 (RG-26), NAIDs 101766361/77542421/77532067/77559655 (RG-38 war diaries Jul-Oct 1945); Special List 44 deck-log inventory [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA catalog file-unit records; search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-322-lcil322-14 and -15
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival path for any deeper record: NARA holds additional identified-but-unretrieved material for this hull - RG-19 Bureau of Ships engineering drawings ('LCI(L)-322' file unit, NAID 175662807, not available online) and an RG-26 Coast Guard 'Ship and Shore Unit War Diaries' file unit 'LCI(L) 322' (NAID 199928693, not available online); four more digitized RG-38 war-diary file units cover July-October 1945 (NAIDs 101766361, 77542421, 77532067, 77559655) but were not retrieved this session; and the SL44-inventoried deck logs exist only on paper/microfilm.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- Record-group and file-unit mapping is a research path, not evidence about this hull's materials; unretrieved holdings' contents are unknown. The RG-19 drawings file unit is the likeliest path to any materials-level specification for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-322-lcil322-12