Evidence
13 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-13).
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[1]research packet 406-packet.md (5 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-329-lcil329-pkt-406-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-329 - construction, specifications, commanding-officer list, campaign assignments, disposition (history credited to USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry', Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150329.htm header block, campaign table, specifications block, commanding-officer table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: LCI-1 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large); laid down 27 July 1942 at Brown Ship Building Co., Houston, TX; launched 12 September 1942; commissioned USS LCI(L)-329 8 November 1942, LTjg. William A. Illing, USNR, in command. Asiatic-Pacific Theater: New Georgia campaign under Landing Force Flotillas-SoPacFor, LCI Flotilla Five, LCI Group Fourteen; Okinawa campaign under LCI Flotilla Nineteen (LCDR E. C. Folger), LCI Group Fifty-Five (LCDR S. J. Kelley USNR), LCI Division One Hundred Nine, LTjg. A. R. Inabinet, USNR, in command. Campaigns: Rendova-Vangunu occupation 30 June-4 July 1943; Treasury Island landing 27 October-6 November 1943 (NavSource prints '1942' - see correction row ev-10); assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto 26-30 June 1945. Occupation service in the Far East 2 September-14 December 1945. Assigned to Joint Task Force 1, Task Unit 1.2.5 (Target Vessels - Landing Craft Units, LCI Group 7) for Operation Crossroads, Bikini Atoll, July 1946. Decommissioned 22 February 1947. Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown. Two battle stars for World War II service. Scuttled off Kwajalein 16 March 1948. Specs: displacement 236 t light / 419 t loaded; length 158'5.5"; propulsion two sets of 4 General Motors Series-71 diesels (4 per shaft), twin variable-pitch propellers, 2,320 shp; complement 4 officers + 24 enlisted; troop capacity 6 officers + 182 enlisted. Commanding officers: Illing (8 Nov 1942-11 Feb 1944); LTjg. James D. Marsh USNR (11 Feb 1944-Feb 1945); LTjg. Aubrey R. Inabinet USNR (Feb 1945-Dec 1945); ENS. Donald H. Reaume USNR (Dec 1945-Mar 1946); LTjg. Paul W. Schott USNR (Mar-Jun 1946); LTjg. Robert Maurice Berry USNR/USN (Jun 1946-22 Feb 1947).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1948
- Population
- Brown Shipbuilding construction trades (1942); crew ~28 + embarked troops (1942-47); JTF-1/Kwajalein maintenance personnel (1946-47)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation (credited source: Turner Publishing USS LCI history) - milestone dates generally track official records but are not a primary registry; the Treasury-landing year is misprinted 1942 for 1943 (see ev-10); the struck date is unknown to the compiler; commissioning/decommissioning dates here are compiled, not log-derived. Contains no asbestos or material content. Specification figures unverified against a primary spec sheet.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-329-lcil329-01
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[3]NHHC Navy Department Library, 'Operation Crossroads: Composition of Joint Task Force One' (republished from U.S. Defense Nuclear Agency, Operation Crossroads, 1946, Washington: DNA, 1984) [other_primary]
- Locator
- JTF-1 composition document, TG 1.2 section: TU 1.2.5 'LCI Group 7 [LCI GRU 7]' roster; TU 1.2.12 Kwajalein Maintenance Force vessel list; asterisk legend in TG 1.2 preamble
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official JTF-1 composition lists LCI-329 twice: (1) under Task Unit 1.2.5 (Landing Craft Unit), LCI Group 7, listed without asterisk - i.e., a TARGET vessel in the Bikini target array for the atomic tests; and (2) under Task Unit 1.2.12 (Kwajalein Maintenance Force), listed with asterisk - i.e., a nontarget support vessel in the unit that 'provide[d] radiological decontamination and ammunition removal and disposal services for the JTF 1 ships moved from Bikini to Kwajalein during August and September 1946,' an outfit of about 1,500 men based ashore and on assorted small craft.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1946-1947
- Population
- JTF-1 personnel; LCI-329 residual/detachment crew; Kwajalein Maintenance Force (~1,500 men)
- Limitations
- Documents role and presence of this hull in both the Bikini target force and the post-test Kwajalein decontamination organization; does not describe any asbestos material, individual exposure, or dose received by this hull's crew. The asterisk legend distinguishes target vs nontarget support vessels within TG 1.2.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-329-lcil329-02
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[4]NHHC Navy Department Library, 'Operation Crossroads: Disposition of Target Vessels' (republished from U.S. Defense Nuclear Agency, Operation Crossroads, 1946, Washington: DNA, 1984) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Disposition of Target Vessels, 'LCIs (Landing Craft, Infantry)' section
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official target-vessel disposition list states: 'LCI-329 scuttled off Kwajalein, 16 March 1948.' The same list fixes her LCI Group 7 sisters' fates for comparison: LCI-327 destroyed on Bascombe (Mek) Island, Kwajalein, 30 October 1947; LCI-332 scuttled off Kwajalein, September 1947; LCI-549 and LCI-615 sold to private parties in California, 19 August 1949; LCI-620 scuttled off the Bikini Lagoon entrance, 10 August 1946.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1946-1949 (list coverage); hull disposed 1948-03-16
- Population
- Scuttling detail crew (1948)
- Limitations
- Documents the hull's final disposition - sunk deliberately at sea off Kwajalein. Scuttling at sea means no commercial scrapping population and no surviving structure; it does not document what materials remained aboard. No asbestos content in the source.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-329-lcil329-03
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[5]NHHC Navy Department Library, 'Target Ships Sunk During Test Able 1 July 1946' and 'Target Ships Sunk During Test Baker 25 July 1946' (republished from U.S. Defense Nuclear Agency, Operation Crossroads, 1946, Washington: DNA, 1984) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Able sunk list (entire document - no landing craft); Baker sunk list, 'Landing Craft' section (LSM-60 only); companion fact-sheet passage on beached landing craft
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- LCI-329 appears on NEITHER official sunk list: the Able list contains no landing craft, and the Baker list's only landing craft is LSM-60 (the surface-zero ship). She therefore survived both detonations afloat - consistent with her subsequent documented service in the Kwajalein Maintenance Force and her scuttling in 1948. The DNA fact sheet records that the landing craft were beached on Bikini Island rather than anchored in the array during the tests.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1946-07-01 and 1946-07-25
- Population
- Target-vessel crews were evacuated before each shot (no crew aboard at detonation)
- Limitations
- Absence from the sunk lists proves survival afloat, not condition: blast/radiological damage and contamination levels aboard this hull are not itemized in these lists. 'Beached on Bikini Island' is stated of the landing craft as a group - the individual beaching position of LCI-329 is not itemized in the published document.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-329-lcil329-04
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[6]NHHC Navy Department Library, 'Operation Crossroads: Fact Sheet' (republished from U.S. Defense Nuclear Agency, Operation Crossroads, 1946, Washington: DNA, 1984) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Fact Sheet, decontamination/Kwajalein-move and film-badge sections
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- Operation-level radiological context for this hull's 1946-48 service: after BAKER most of the target fleet 'remained too radiologically contaminated for several weeks for more than brief on-board activities' - excepting 12 lightly-contaminated vessels and 'the landing craft beached on Bikini Island.' A target-vessel decontamination program began about 1 August 1946, washing ship exteriors using work crews drawn from the target ships' companies under radiological monitors. By 10 August the decision was made to tow the surviving target fleet to Kwajalein to work in uncontaminated water; the move ran through August-September 1946, ammunition was offloaded at Kwajalein into the fall, and 'personnel continued to work on target ships at Kwajalein into 1947.' Remaining target ships were destroyed by sinking off Bikini, Kwajalein, or Hawaii during 1946-1948. Radsafe rules limited personnel to 0.1 roentgen/day.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1946-1948
- Population
- JTF-1 personnel (18,875 film badges issued); target-ship decontamination work crews; Kwajalein maintenance force
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation: establishes the contamination/decontamination regime under which this hull was handled, but does not itemize LCI-329's own radiological readings, dose, or material condition. No asbestos content - the documented post-test hazard is radiological, and this row makes no claim that asbestos was handled or documented aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-329-lcil329-05
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[7]NARA, Special List #44 - List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947, ship-number list (RG 24 Bureau of Naval Personnel, Entry 118, NAID 581208) [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, page 22, LCI(L)-329 row (3/16/1943-6/30/1945)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Special List #44 (ship-number ordering) inventories Navy deck logs for LCI(L)-329 covering 3/16/1943 to 6/30/1945 - logs physically held at the National Archives in Record Group 24, Entry 118. The log window brackets her New Georgia and Treasury-Bougainville combat period and ends during the Okinawa campaign.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1945 (log window)
- Limitations
- Log-coverage dates only - they do not mark commissioning (8 November 1942) or any other milestone; earlier-period logs (Nov 1942-Mar 1943) and post-June-1945 logs are not inventoried in this entry and may sit elsewhere in the entry or be unaccounted. Logs are not publicly digitized; contents (including any material- or yard-work entries) are unverified. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-329-lcil329-06
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[8]NARA still photographs transcribed in NavSource captions: 18-N-52630, 18-N-52690, 18-N-52633 - Rendova Beachhead, 30 June-4 July 1943, showing USS LCI(L)-329 among beached LCIs (RG 19 / 'General Photographic File of the Department of the Navy' imagery credited 'a US Navy photo now in the US National Archives collection') [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150329.htm image captions; NARA photo numbers 18-N-52630, 18-N-52690, 18-N-52633
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Three contemporaneous US Navy photographs at NARA show this hull beached/disembarking at the Rendova beachhead during the 30 June-4 July 1943 occupation - physical-presence documentation of her New Georgia service (in one frame she appears with LCI(L)-334, LCI(L)-335, LCI(L)-336; another frames her with LST-397, LCI(L)-334, LCI(L)-336 and LCVPs from USS McCawley (APA-4)).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-06-30 to 1943-07-04
- Population
- Ship's company and embarked 169th Infantry troops at Rendova, June-July 1943
- Limitations
- Archival lead only: photographs establish presence, not material condition or any work performed. NARA catalog pages are JS-rendered and could not be fetched independently this session; photo numbers and captions transcribed via NavSource (Robert Morrissey, courtesy Dennis Blocker, LCI National Association Historian). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-329-lcil329-07
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[9]USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association, 'On the Fourth They Fought Back' - oral history of the 4 July 1943 Rendova air attack built on crew memoirs and official LCI/LST action reports [other_primary]
- Locator
- usslci.org article, Parts I-II (Ganzberger/Plant narratives) and action-report footnotes
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Veterans-association account placing this hull inside the 4 July 1943 Rendova Harbor air attack: LCI(L)-329 beached on Rendova's East Beach with the first LCI group (~10:00 AM), discharged the 169th Infantry/Field Artillery, withdrew by ~12:30 PM, and her crew manned 20mm guns when sixteen Japanese bombers attacked at 2:05 PM (crewman Stephen Ganzberger loading for Cook Elmo Pucci's gun). The day's LCI fatalities - three killed, seven wounded - fell aboard LCI(L)-24, LCI(L)-65, and LCI(L)-23; the account does not attribute casualties or damage to LCI(L)-329. Twelve of sixteen bombers were confirmed shot down.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-07-04
- Population
- LCI(L)-329 ship's company (~28) and landed troops, 4 July 1943
- Limitations
- Veterans-association publication (usslci.org): a memoir compilation anchored to official action reports, not an official Navy source - casualty figures are force-level, and this hull is reported undamaged. Carried for vessel-history depth; contains no asbestos or material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-329-lcil329-08
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[10]Era inference built on: NavSource specifications (8 x GM Series-71 diesels, 2,320 shp, no steam plant; austere LCI-1-class construction); GAO HRD-80-2 Navy asbestos-era documentation (companion row ev-uss-lci-l-329-lcil329-11); shipyards.json yard dataset checked - Brown Ship Building Co., Houston has no Atlas yard record [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specifications block; GAO HRD-80-2 product description; shipyards.json yard_id list
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel-powered landing craft built in 1942 sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era; era-standard asbestos applications aboard a small diesel amphibious craft of this period were diesel-engine and exhaust lagging, machinery insulation, gaskets, valve packing, and electrical insulation in the machinery spaces and fittings. As a diesel vessel she carried no steam plant - the boiler/steam-line lagging pathway of larger combatants does not apply - and LCI(L)s were austere, thin-insulated vessels relative to fleet units.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1948
- Population
- Brown Shipbuilding construction trades (1942); crew (1942-47); JTF-1/Kwajalein maintenance force (1946-47); scuttling detail (1948)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, construction specification, or work package located for LCI(L)-329. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials; no quantity; no manufacturer attribution. Hull scuttled 1948: nothing survives to sample.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-329-lcil329-09
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[11]Correction cross-check: NavSource campaign table vs Pacific Wrecks history vs ship service timeline; NHHC/NavSource flotilla assignments [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150329.htm campaign table; Pacific Wrecks pacificwrecks.com/ship/usn/LCIL-329.html history block
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- CORRECTION: NavSource prints the Treasury-Bougainville entry as 'Treasury Island landing, 27 October to 6 November 1942' - the year is a typographical slip; the Treasury Islands operation (Operation Goodtime) ran 27 October-6 November 1943, matching this hull's documented Pacific deployment (commissioned November 1942, in the Solomons by June 1943) and the same-source commanding-officer biography crediting Illing's Treasury Islands battle star. Separately, Pacific Wrecks misprints 'Launched September 12, 1942 as USS LCI(L)-327' - the hull launched as LCI(L)-329.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1943
- Limitations
- Corrects circulating transcription slips, not a material claim. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-329-lcil329-10
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[12]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 reviewed Navy efforts to protect workers from asbestos exposure at the Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards, covering the use of asbestos in Navy ships, the cost of removing it, and compensation programs. Per the product-page highlights: the Navy's 1975 policy was to remove and replace with nonasbestos materials only insulation that was damaged or had to be removed for repairs, modified in 1979 to selective replacement in high-maintenance areas - i.e., asbestos insulation remained installed aboard Navy ships well beyond this hull's 1942-48 construction and service 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 report not retrieved (gao.gov blocks direct automated fetch, HTTP 403, confirmed this session; product-page highlights text retrieved via Firecrawl).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-329-lcil329-11
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[13]Batch-5050 search ledger (this record): NavSource main + photo-index pages; NHHC JTF-1 composition, target-vessel disposition, Able/Baker sunk lists, Crossroads fact sheet; NARA Special List 44 ship-number PDF; NARA digitized deck-log list; CourtListener API (authenticated); secondary web litigation sweep; shipyards.json yard check [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-329-lcil329-01 through -14
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, material list, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or verified litigation naming LCI(L)-329 / LCI-329 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener returned zero hits on all completed name-spelling queries (opinions "LCI(L)-329", "LCI-329"; dockets "LCI(L)-329", "LCI 329"); two remaining spelling variants were blocked all session by fleet pacing and are open (see gaps). The only 'asbestos' material naming the hull or its builder is law-firm marketing content (mesothelioma.net, mesothelioma.com, mesotheliomaveterans.org shipyard 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 - the hull was scuttled in 1948 with materials aboard unrecorded, and no scrapping or museum record exists to audit. Deck logs (Mar 1943-Jun 1945) and Brown Shipbuilding construction records are undigitized leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-329-lcil329-12