Evidence
12 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-12).
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[1]research packet 406-packet.md (4 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-326-lcil326-pkt-406-packet-md
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[2]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, 15 April 1945 edition, Vol. II (minor landing vessels) - LCI(L) class data sheet and per-hull build table (scan hosted at shipscribe.com) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB 1945 Vol. II, LCI(L) class data sheet (book pp. 200-201) and build table, 'LCI(L)326 (ex-APY326)' row
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official BuShips build record for this hull: 'LCI(L)326 (ex-APY326) - Brown S. B. Co., Houston, Tex. - [keel laid] 22 Dec 42 - [ship launched] 2 Feb 43 - [date of first commission] 15 Feb 43.' Class data sheet for LCI(L) 1-350: length 158'6" oa / 153'0" wl, extreme beam 23'8", full-load displacement 387 t, trial speed 14.4 kt; propulsion - G.M. Diesel 6051 series 71, 2,320 shp, single G.M. main reduction gears, 2 propellers; 2 diesel-driven 20 kW 120 V D.C. ship's-service generators; armament 4 x 20-mm A.A. machine guns; accommodations 8 officers / 21 enlisted (as designed).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1945 (publication coverage)
- Population
- Brown Shipbuilding construction trades (Houston, 1942-43); commissioning crew (Feb 1943)
- Limitations
- Primary official Navy data book - establishes builder, build dates, and designed class characteristics for this hull. Contains no asbestos or material content; does not establish installed insulation products. OCR of the scan garbles some columnar figures (accommodations row partially illegible). Commissioning-location detail ('Orange, TX') comes from NavSource, not SDB.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-326-lcil326-01
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[3]NARA Special List 44, 'List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947' - ship-number listing (official NARA PDF) [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, PDF page 22, 'LCI(L)-326 | 12/1/1944 | 11/30/1945' row
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA Special List 44 inventories deck logs for LCI(L)-326 covering 12/1/1944 - 11/30/1945 - i.e., the period of her Charleston/Jacksonville refit aftermath, Pacific transit, Okinawa service, and Japanese occupation duty through departure for home. The logbooks are held in NARA custody (RG 24 deck-log holdings at College Park for the 1941-and-later period).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-1945 (coverage); 1978 (list publication)
- Population
- USCG crew during the logged period (Dec 1944 - Nov 1945)
- Limitations
- Holdings inventory only - establishes that deck logs for this hull exist at NARA for the stated coverage window, not what the logs contain. These are log-coverage dates, not commissioning/decommissioning dates. SL44 lists NO LCI(L)-326 logs for Feb 1943 - Nov 1944 (her Mediterranean/Normandy period) - wartime logs for that span are not in this inventory (see gaps). The PDF is the text-verified ship-number listing; LCI(L)-326 appears on PDF page 22.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-326-lcil326-02
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[4]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-326 (10/15/150326) - designation, milestones, campaign table, CO list, award/ribbon bar, NARA-captioned photography [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150326.htm header block, campaign tables, CO table, photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull (LCI-1 class): laid down 22 December 1942 at Brown Shipbuilding Corp, Houston, TX; launched 2 February 1943; commissioned USS LCI(L)-326, 15 February 1943, at Orange, TX, LT Samuel W. Allison, USCGR in command. 'was manned by the US Coast Guard.' Assigned Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater, LCI Flotilla Four (Capt. M. E. Imlay, USCG; Flotilla Ten at Normandy) - campaigns: Tunisian operation (1 Jun - 9 Jul 1943), Sicilian occupation (9 Jul 1943), Salerno landings (9 Sep 1943), Invasion of Normandy (6-17 Jun 1944). Reassigned Asiatic-Pacific: departed San Diego 3 April 1945 for Okinawa, reaching Okinawa 28 May 1945; Okinawa Gunto operation (assault and occupation, 29 May - 30 Jun 1945). Postwar: proceeded to Sasebo via Nagasaki; CTG 55.2 at Nagoya for Navy Occupation Service 2 Sep - 25 Nov 1945. Decommissioned 7 May 1946 at New Orleans; struck from the Naval Register 5 June 1946; sold 13 December 1946, fate unknown. Awards bar: Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive 6 Jun 1944), Coast Guard Unit Commendation, American Campaign Medal, EAME Campaign Medal (4), Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1), WWII Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Service Medal (Asia clasp); 'earned five battle stars.' COs: LT Samuel W. Allison, USCGR (15 Feb 1943 - 15 Sep 1944); LTjg James Jones, USCGR (15 Sep 1944 - 7 May 1946). NARA-captioned photographs include 80-G-38805 (Little Creek, 23 Mar 1943), NAID 205578446 / 26-G-2325, NAID 205578570 / 26-G-2401, NAID 205578615 / 26-G-2448, NAID 205578667 / 26-G-2447 (Normandy-era), plus captions noting an enemy aircraft downed on D-Day and German-POW transport duty.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- Brown Shipbuilding trades (1942-43); USCG officers/crew (1943-46); embarked troops (up to ~188)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry; milestone dates here corroborate the BuShips Ships' Data build record (ev-01) where they overlap. The Pacific assignment line on the -326 page misprints the hull number ('LCI(L)-323') and conflicts with the NHHC 1 May 1945 fleet organization on group/division (see gaps). 'Five battle stars' conflicts with the USCG cutter file's 'four' (see gaps). Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-326-lcil326-03
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[5]U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office cutter file, 'LCI(L)-326' (webcutters series; sources: LCI(L) file, Coast Guard Historian's Office, and 'The Coast Guard At War,' Vol. V, Pt. 2, 1949, pp. 117-130) - via Wayback Machine capture 2017-01-25; live uscg.mil/history/webcutters URL no longer resolves [museum_official]
- Locator
- USCG webcutters LCI_326.pdf (4 pp., Wayback capture 20170125013136)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official USCG cutter-file history for this hull: assigned to Coast Guard-manned LCI(L) Flotilla 4 (later 10, then 35; 'Group 103, Division 206'); sailed Norfolk-Bizerte; prepared for the Sicily invasion 9 July 1943; landed troops at Salerno; proceeded to England late October 1943, arriving Plymouth 3 November; amphibious training on southern England beaches until D-Day; 'on June 6, 1944, she landed troops at Utah Beach,' then cross-channel troop transport/guide and logistic duties until departing Falmouth 5 October 1944. Arrived Charleston, SC 24 October 1944; drydocked and underwent repairs/overhaul at Jacksonville, FL until 12 December 1944; amphibious training at Little Creek and Solomons Island; departed Norfolk 26 December 1944 for San Diego (via Key West and the Canal Zone), arriving 22 January 1945; departed San Diego 3 April 1945 for Okinawa via Pearl Harbor, Eniwetok, Guam, Ulithi, arriving 29 May 1945; Kerama Retto duty (harbor entrance control, smoke screens, guard mail, light freight, staff officers); Buckner Bay screening/smoke duties; Chimu Wan (11 August 1945); awaiting drydocking at Okinawa for screw replacement when Group 103 departed for Japan 8 September 1945 (replaced on that mission by LCI(M)-810); reached Sasebo 1 November 1945 via Nagasaki; assigned CTG 55.4 at Nagoya 12 November; departed for home 27 November 1945; arrived New Orleans 15 March 1946 via Saipan, Pearl Harbor, San Diego, Canal Zone; decommissioned 7 May 1946. File spec block: builder 'Brown Shipbuilding Company, Orange, Texas'; commissioned '31 October 1942'; complement 3 officers + 21 enlisted; 8 x GM diesels, twin shafts, 1,600 hp; 'earned four battle stars'; Flotilla 10 units retroactively awarded the Coast Guard Unit Commendation; disposition 'Transferred to the Maritime Commission on 2 February 1948 for disposal.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1948
- Population
- USCG officers and crew (1943-46); embarked troops; repair/drydock trades at Jacksonville FL (Oct-Dec 1944)
- Limitations
- Authoritative service narrative, but several of its spec-block fields conflict with primary/contemporaneous records: commissioning '31 October 1942' predates this hull's keel-laying (22 Dec 42) and matches LCI(L)-327's commissioning per BuShips Ships' Data - a probable hull-line data slip; 'Orange, Texas' builder location conflicts with BuShips 'Houston, Tex.'; 'four battle stars' vs NavSource's five; '1,600 hp' vs BuShips 2,320 shp; CTG 55.4 vs NavSource CTG 55.2. These are flagged in gaps. Archived capture cited - the live webcutters URL no longer resolves (the migrated history.uscg.mil article 1834772 exists but is an empty stub as of 2026-09-29). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-326-lcil326-04
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[6]NHHC online reading room, 'United States Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945' (transcribed official fleet-organization document) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC page, 'LCI(L) FLOTILLA THIRTY-FIVE / LCI(L) GROUP 104 / LCI(L) DIVISION 208' table, 'LCI 326' row
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- An official U.S. Pacific Fleet organization document places this hull on the Pacific Fleet order of battle as of 1 May 1945: 'LCI 326' is listed under LCI(L) FLOTILLA THIRTY-FIVE, LCI(L) GROUP 104, LCI(L) DIVISION 208 - alongside sister Coast Guard-manned hulls (95, 96, 321, 325, 349 in the same division; flotilla mates with named USCG/USCGR commanding officers).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- USCG crew in Pacific service (May 1945)
- Limitations
- Fleet-organization roster, not a unit history: establishes the hull's Pacific Fleet assignment and flotilla/group/division placement on 1 May 1945, but no operations detail. Conflicts with NavSource/USCG-cutter-file 'Group 103, Division 206' (possibly a reshuffle between 1 May and the 28-29 May Okinawa arrival, or a NavSource transcription slip - see gaps). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-326-lcil326-05
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[7]U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office, 'Coast Guard Heroes at Normandy' (verbatim award citations); corroborated by USCG Historian 'Cutters and Vessels' D-Day page listing LCI(L)-326 under 'Utah Beach Landings,' LCI(L) Flotilla 10 [museum_official]
- Locator
- USCG Historian 'Coast Guard Heroes at Normandy' page, 'Samuel W. Allison, Silver Star' entry; https://www.history.uscg.mil/Browse-by-Topic/Conflicts/World-War-II/D-Day-June-6-1944-Normandy/Cutters-and-Vessels/ - 'Utah Beach Landings' list, LCI(L)-326
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official award-citation record for this hull's commanding officer at Normandy: 'Lieutenant Samuel W. Allison was awarded the Silver Star: "For conspicuous gallantry in action as Commanding Officer of LCI(L) 326 during amphibious landings on the French coast June 6, 1944. Displaying superb seamanship and dauntless courage, Lieutenant Allison successfully landed units of the Army, then stood off the beach for salvage duty. Realizing that the services of a control boat were urgently needed, he volunteered for this assignment and, in the face of concentrated shell fire and constant threat of exploding mines, effectively directed boat traffic throughout the remainder of the initial assault."' The Historian's D-Day vessel roster lists LCI(L)-326 among the Utah Beach landings craft of LCI(L) Flotilla 10.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- LT Samuel W. Allison, USCGR; LCI(L)-326 crew; embarked Army troops (90th Infantry Division per NavSource photo captions)
- Limitations
- Award-documentation page: establishes the CO's decorated action aboard this hull and Utah Beach assignment on 6 June 1944; no asbestos or material content. The 'Cutters and Vessels' roster is a landing-order list, not a per-hull after-action record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-326-lcil326-06
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[8]U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office, 'Coast Guard-Manned Landing Craft (Infantry), Large Flotilla 4 / 10 / 35' (anonymous flotilla-member history); plus USCG Historian 'U.S. Coast Guard-Manned LCI(L)s' overview page [museum_official]
- Locator
- USCG Historian Flotilla 4/10/35 history page (roster lists, post-Normandy overhaul paragraph); 'USCG-Manned LCI(L)s' overview page
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Flotilla-level documentation naming this hull: LCI(L)-326 is listed in the Flotilla Four roster (83-96, 319-326, 349, 350); the flotilla assembled at Galveston, trained at Virginia Beach/Little Creek, departed Norfolk 31 March 1943 for Bermuda, then Port Lyautey, French Morocco (29 April 1943); Sicily landings 10 July 1943; Salerno landings 9 September 1943; England late October 1943 (Greenway House, Dartmouth, as flotilla HQ); Normandy 6 June 1944; post-Normandy: 'The LCI(L)s 83, 84, 86, 88, 90, 96, 320, 323, 325, 326, and 350 were overhauled, repaired and in some cases... refitted' with new crews trained at Chesapeake Bay, departing Norfolk as 'Flotilla Thirty-Five' via the Panama Canal and San Diego for Pearl Harbor and the western Pacific (Eniwetok, Guam, Hagushi, Okinawa). The overview page confirms 28 Coast Guard-manned LCI(L)s, all remaining commissioned U.S. Navy vessels, and that the type's Pacific duties included smoke-making, minesweeping support, mail/passenger ferry, air-sea rescue, and harbor entrance control.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1945
- Population
- Flotilla 4/10/35 crews including this hull's (1943-45)
- Limitations
- Anonymous member-written history hosted on the official Historian's site; it self-warns 'some of the information was recalled from memory so there may be a conflict concerning a date or a number.' Its statement that Flotilla Four's LCI(L)s 'were built by the Consolidated Steel Corporation... in Orange, Texas' is a flotilla-level recollection contradicted for THIS hull by the BuShips Ships' Data build record (Brown S.B. Co., Houston, Tex. - ev-01). Flotilla movements documented here apply to this named hull. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-326-lcil326-07
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[9]Conflict reconciliation across primary/authoritative sources: BuShips Ships' Data 1945 build table; NavSource 10/15/150326.htm; USCG Historian cutter file LCI_326.pdf (archived); NHHC Pacific Fleet organization 1 May 1945; NARA Special List 44 ship-number PDF [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB 1945 v2 LCI(L) build table rows 319-338; NavSource header/campaign text; USCG LCI_326.pdf spec block and history text; NHHC Pacific Fleet org table
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- CORRECTION: three circulating data points on this hull are contradicted by primary records. (1) Builder location - USCG cutter file and derivative secondary sources (e.g., Wikipedia) give 'Brown Shipbuilding, Orange, Texas' and the USCG flotilla memoir gives 'Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas'; the contemporaneous BuShips build table and NavSource give Brown Shipbuilding Co., HOUSTON, Tex. - carried here. (2) Commissioning - the USCG cutter file gives '31 October 1942,' which predates this hull's documented keel-laying (22 Dec 1942) and is exactly LCI(L)-327's commissioning date in the same BuShips table (keel 27 Jul 42, launched 12 Sep 42, commissioned 31 Oct 42) - a probable row slip in the cutter file; 15 Feb 1943 carried. (3) Pacific assignment - NHHC's 1 May 1945 fleet organization places LCI 326 in Flotilla 35 / Group 104 / Division 208, while NavSource and the USCG cutter file say Group 103 / Division 206 (the NavSource line also misprints the hull as 'LCI(L)-323'); NHHC placement carried with the conflict flagged.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Limitations
- Corrects identity-level data, not a material/exposure claim. Residual possibility that the hull genuinely shifted from Group 104/Division 208 (1 May) to Group 103/Division 206 (post-28 May) is acknowledged - sources do not resolve it. Disposition and battle-star conflicts are documented in gaps rather than asserted here.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-326-lcil326-08
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[10]Era inference built on: BuShips Ships' Data 1945 LCI(L) 1-350 class data sheet (GM diesel plant, no steam); NavSource specifications (8 x GM 6051-series-71 diesels, twin variable-pitch propellers, 2,320 shp); GAO HRD-80-2 program context (see ev-10) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB 1945 v2 LCI(L) data sheet (propulsion block); NavSource specifications block
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A steel-hulled diesel landing craft built December 1942 - February 1943 sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era; era-standard applications aboard a small diesel amphibious craft of this period were machinery and exhaust thermal insulation/lagging, gaskets, valve packing, electrical insulation, and accommodation/joiner insulation in the confined hull. As a diesel craft she carried no steam plant - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply - but the small-hull confined-space dynamic applies to the applications that were present.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1948
- Population
- Brown Shipbuilding construction trades (1942-43); USCG crew (1943-46); repair/overhaul trades, Jacksonville FL (Oct-Dec 1944); postwar disposal workforce
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation schedule, material list, work package, or survey located for LCI(L)-326. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. No manufacturer attribution for this hull. Absence of a located record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-326-lcil326-09
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[11]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), service (1943-46), and disposal (1946-48) era.
- 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, reconfirmed 2026-09-29) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-326-lcil326-10
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[12]Batch-5047 search ledger (this record): NARA Special List 44 ship-number PDF; BuShips Ships' Data 1945 v2; USCG Historian cutter file (archived) and history.uscg.mil pages; NHHC Pacific Fleet organization; NavSource; CourtListener API v4 (opinion + docket indexes); NARA Catalog; GAO product page; secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-326-01 through -12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed asbestos case naming LCI(L)-326 (any spelling variant) was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener API v4 searched 2026-09-29 (authenticated): opinion index "LCI(L)-326" - 0 results; "LCI(L) 326" - 0; "LCI-326" OR "LCI 326" OR "LCI(L)-326" - 0; docket index same variants - 0. Prior batch pre-screening likewise found no PRIMARY match at any tier under checked LCI/LSI spellings, same-number conversions, or documented renumberings. The only 'asbestos aboard' material located is law-firm marketing content (mesothelioma.net, asbestos-ships.com, and similar listicles) asserting asbestos without primary sourcing - excluded by source policy.
- 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 - a 1942-43 hull squarely inside the documented asbestos era, and the deck logs (RG 24, Dec 1944-Nov 1945 coverage) plus any BuShips/BuDocks work packages for the Oct-Dec 1944 Jacksonville overhaul are undigitized leads that could contain material detail. The hull was disposed of before modern ACM-handling documentation existed. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-326-lcil326-11