Evidence
13 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-13).
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[1]research packet 408-packet.md (7 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-337-lcil337-pkt-408-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(R)-337 ex-USS LCI(L)-337 - construction, commissioning, flotilla/group assignment, campaign table, redesignation, awards, specifications, disposal (history credited to 'USS LCI Landing Craft Infantry' Vol. II, Turner Publishing 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150337.htm header block, campaign table, specifications block, awards ribbon block, final-disposition line; captioned photographic record includes the 26 Dec 1943 Cape Gloucester offload, LCI(L)-337 coming alongside to help evacuate casualties from the burning USS Sonoma (ATO-12) at San Pedro Bay on 24 October 1944 (NARA photo 80-G-325818), and the Buckner Bay grounding views
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: LCI-1 class Landing Craft Infantry (Large); laid down 22 September 1942 at Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, TX; launched 21 October 1942; commissioned USS LCI(L)-337, 21 December 1942. Assigned Asiatic-Pacific Theater, LCI Flotilla Seven, LCI Group Nineteen. Campaigns: Eastern New Guinea (Lae occupation, 4-6 and 9-13 September 1943); Bismarck Archipelago (Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 26-27 December 1943); Hollandia (21-25 April 1944); Leyte (Leyte landings 12 October-29 November 1944; Ormoc Bay 7-8 December 1944); Luzon (Mindoro 12-18 December 1944; Lingayen Gulf 4-18 January 1945); Manila Bay-Bicol (Zambales-Subic Bay 29-31 January 1945; Mariveles-Corregidor 14-28 February 1945); Southern Philippines (Mindanao landings 10 and 16 March, 17-23 April 1945); Borneo (Balikpapan 26 June-7 July 1945). Redesignated Landing Ship Infantry (Rocket) LCI(R)-337, 10 July 1945 (NavSource wording; the rocket-support designation). Occupation and China service 29 September-14 December 1945. Decommissioned date unknown; struck from the Naval Register January 1946; sold November 1947, 'probably as part of the purchase by the Oklahoma-Philippines Co.' (the 'Berry sale'). Eight battle stars; awards include Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive), Philippines Presidential Unit Citation, Philippines Liberation Medal (2), Navy Occupation Medal (Asia clasp), China Service Medal (extended). Page's captioned photographic record additionally documents her offloading Marines at Yellow Beach Two, Cape Gloucester, 26 December 1943; coming alongside to help evacuate casualties from the burning USS Sonoma (ATO-12) at San Pedro Bay on 24 October 1944 (caption citing NARA photo 80-G-325818); in dry dock at Subic Bay with LCI(G)-64 in August 1945; and beached with a hole in her port side at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, after Typhoon Louise, 9-10 October 1945. Spec block: displacement 216 t light / 234 t landing / 389 t loaded; 158'5.5" x 23'3"; 16 kt max / 14 kt continuous; propulsion two sets of 4 General Motors 6051-series 71 diesels (4 per shaft), GM main reduction gears, two 30 kW DC diesel-drive generators, twin variable-pitch propellers, 2,320 shp; LCI(L) armament four single 20 mm + two .50 cal; LCI(R) armament one 40 mm bow mount, four 20 mm, two .50 cal, six 5" rocket launchers.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- Brown Shipbuilding construction trades (1942); crew and embarked troops (1942-45); occupation-era crew (1945)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - milestone dates track NVR/DANFS conventions but this hull has no DANFS entry. Contains no asbestos content. Decommissioning date is 'unknown' on this source; the Berry-sale attribution is explicitly hedged ('probably'). Designation line carries LCI(L) -> LCI(R) only, while her own wartime documents carry LCI(G) (see ev-03).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-337-01
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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 edition), page 23 - LCI(L)-337 deck-log coverage [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, page 23, row 'LCI(L)-337 12/21/1942 12/14/1945'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's Special List 44 inventories deck logs for LCI(L)-337 covering 12/21/1942 through 12/14/1945 - the full commissioned span from commissioning day to the close of her Occupation/China service in the Far East.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1945
- Population
- Deck-log subjects: ship's crew 1942-45
- Limitations
- Log-coverage inventory only: the dates are holdings coverage, not asserted commissioning or decommissioning dates (the 12/21/1942 begin coincides with NavSource's commissioning date; the 12/14/1945 end coincides with the end of her documented Occupation/China window). The logs themselves are held at NARA College Park; digitization status in the National Archives Catalog not confirmed for this hull's RG 24 deck logs (muster rolls and action reports ARE digitized - see ev-03). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-337-02
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[4]NARA National Archives Catalog: 'LCI(G) 337 - Muster Rolls' (NAID 120168323, RG 24 Bureau of Naval Personnel, digitized via Ancestry partnership) and 'LCI(G)-337' action reports in RG 38 'World War II War Diaries, Other Operational Records and Histories' (digitized via Fold3): NAIDs 139857621 (Mindoro assault 12/15/44), 139781214 (AA action off Mindoro 12/15/44), 139826015 (CTG 78.2 forwarding of 337's Leyte action reports), 139894847 (San Antonio-San Felipe, Luzon 1/29/45), 139894550 (Grande Island, Luzon 1/30/45), 139866589 (Lingayen Gulf 1/9/45 incl. AA action), 139894850 (Mariveles-Corregidor 2/15-16/45) [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov NAIDs 120168323 (muster rolls, RG 24, digitalObjects Ancestry File #32860_244635-00083 forwarding sheet) and 139894850 et al. (RG 38 WWII War Diaries series, Fold3 images)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA holds digitized primary records authored by this hull's wartime command. The quarterly muster-roll forwarding sheet dated 30 September 1944 reads 'MUSTER ROLL OF THE CREW OF THE U.S.S. LCI(G)337' - certified by Ens. Paul Larson USNR (Executive Officer), approved by Lt.(jg) Harlan T. Moen USNR (Commanding Officer), forwarded 2 October 1944 'From: At Sea'. The Mariveles/Corregidor action report (letterhead 'U.S.S. LCI (G) # 337', received 17 February 1945, via CTU 78.3.8 / CTG 78.3 / CTF 78 (Commander Seventh Amphibious Force)) states: 'Prior to 14 February 1945, this vessel had participated as a Rocket Ship in several earlier landings in the Philippine Area, two of the most recent of which had been the landings on 29 January in the Zambales Area and on 30 January on Grande Island, Subic Bay, Luzon' - documenting that she operated as a rocket-firing support craft well before the formal LCI(R) redesignation of 10 July 1945, and that 'LCI(G)' was the designation on her own wartime paperwork.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Ship's officers and crew, 1944-45 (CO Lt.(jg) Harlan T. Moen USNR; XO Ens. Paul Larson USNR as of Sept 1944)
- Limitations
- Archival evidence of operations and crew, not of materials or asbestos. Designation caveat documented from the primary documents themselves: ship's own records carry 'LCI(G)-337' (gunboat/rocket-support styling) from at least 30 September 1944, while NavSource's designation line runs LCI(L) -> LCI(R) only - the formal LCI(R) designation postdates the field use. Documents are image scans; muster roll quoted directly from the digitized forwarding sheet; action report quoted from first page image of NAID 139894850.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-337-03
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[5]NHHC Photograph NH 105654 - 'USS LCI(R)-337. Beached in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, after Typhoon Louise ravaged that port in October 1945. Photographed in November 1945' (collection of Dr. Richard Raymond Gratton) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC NH 105654 photo page caption text
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC documents this hull beached at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, after Typhoon Louise (9-10 October 1945), photographed November 1945; the caption situates her among the grounded wrecks (USS Ocelot (IX-110), USS Nestor (ARB-6), ex-LST-39 / YF-1079, YF-993) and states: 'LCI(R)-337 was stricken from the Navy List in January 1946 and sold in November 1947.' NavSource captioned photography shows a hole in her port side from the grounding.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-1947
- Population
- Occupation-era crew aboard at Okinawa, October 1945
- Limitations
- Confirms typhoon grounding, striking month, and sale month - no asbestos or material content, no decommissioning date, no post-sale disposition. The grounding damage is documented photographically; any repair survey is not located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-337-04
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[6]DANFS (NHHC), Samuel B. Roberts I (DE-413) - Battle off Samar rescue narrative naming LCI(L)-337 in Task Group 78.12 [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413) entry, Battle off Samar rescue paragraphs
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC's DANFS entry for USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413) names this hull by number in the rescue group: 'a rescue group of six ships including the 173-foot submarine chasers PC-623 and PC-1119, and infantry landing craft LCI(L)-74, LCI(L)-337, LCI(L)-340 and LCI(L)-341... Task Group 78.12, consisting of the six rescue ships, departed San Pedro Bay shortly after 1700... began searching at 0621 on 26 October... In total, Baxter's unit rescued 1,150 survivors from the four U.S. warships lost off Samar' (Gambier Bay CVE-73, Hoel DD-533, Johnston DD-557, Samuel B. Roberts DE-413).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 25-27 October 1944
- Population
- LCI-337 crew plus ~85+ embarked survivors (Oct 1944 rescue)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific operational history only - no asbestos or material content. The DANFS text prints six craft but lists five in the surviving sentence (a transcription seam in the source); the companion NavSource transcription of the unit's log extracts records LCI-34 as the sixth craft. LCI-337's own log entries (NavSource transcription, ev-06) record her rescues including ~58 men from DD-533 and 5 from DD-557, with ~85 survivors aboard by 0930 on 27 October.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-337-05
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[7]NavSource-hosted wartime document scans for LCI(L)-337/LCI(R)-337: 'Report on Rescue Search Mission of 25 October through 26 October 1944' (150337c.pdf) with Letter of Appreciation; 'Anti-Aircraft Action Report 24 October 1944, Leyte Gulf' (150337d.pdf); 'Anti-Aircraft Special Action Report Mindoro Operation, 17 December 1944' (150337a.pdf); 'Typhoon Damage Report - 16 September 1945' (150337b.pdf); plus the transcribed TG 78.12 log-extract narrative (150337sr.htm, details from Adm. Barbey's 'MacArthur's Amphibious Navy') [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.net/archives/10/15/pdf/150337{a,b,c,d}.pdf and /150337sr.htm log-extract table
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Image scans of the ship's own wartime reports are hosted on NavSource and are live: the rescue-search mission report (25-26 Oct 1944, Leyte), AA action reports (24 Oct 1944 Leyte Gulf; 17 Dec 1944 Mindoro), and a typhoon damage report dated 16 September 1945 - a separate weather event predating Typhoon Louise (9-10 Oct 1945). The transcribed log extracts record LCI-337's entries in the TG 78.12 rescue: 2127 sighted debris and heavy oil slick; 2300 arrived survivor area; 0055 survivors sighted and rescued; 0215 rescued group from floating life raft; 0654 four survivors rescued; 0745 'rescued approximately 58 survivors in a group from DD-533'; 0905 rescued 5 survivors from USS Johnston (DD-557); 0930 'large group of survivors aboard, approximately 85 men'; 0850 next morning LCM alongside to transfer stretcher cases to hospital ship LST-464.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Ship's crew during Leyte/Mindoro operations and 1945 typhoon damage events
- Limitations
- Primary documents hosted on a secondary site: PDFs are image scans without a text layer, verified live (HTTP 200) but content is described here per NavSource's own labels plus the HTML transcription - the scans themselves were not OCR-verified in this session. The NARA RG 38 catalog (ev-03) holds the archival originals for several of the same reports. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-337-06
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[8]Era inference built on: NavSource specifications block (GM 6051-series 71 diesels, no steam plant); vessel build date 1942 (wartime amphibious-construction era); GAO HRD-80-2 Navy-wide asbestos-use documentation (see ev-08) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specifications block (propulsion/armament); GAO HRD-80-2 product page; class-f/lst-1-class.class.json diesel-amphibious inference pattern
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel-powered amphibious landing craft built in 1942 sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era. Era-standard asbestos applications aboard a craft of this type and period were engine and exhaust lagging around the GM diesel plant, gaskets and valve packing in machinery and piping systems, electrical insulation, and interior joiner/deck covering materials in accommodation spaces. As a diesel craft she carried no boilers or steam turbines - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply; exposure relevance concentrates in the machinery spaces and habitability joiner work, consistent with the documented diesel-amphibious pattern for the LST class (see class-f lst-1-class profile).
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- Brown Shipbuilding construction trades (1942); crew in machinery spaces (1942-46); conversion/yard trades during LCI(R) outfitting; buyers/scrappers after 1947 sale
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material schedule, or work package located for LCI(L)-337. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. No manufacturer attribution. The LCI(R) conversion (rocket launchers, 40 mm bow mount) was an armament change whose material scope is undocumented.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-337-07
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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) and service era (1942-46).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- 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 this session (gao.gov has blocked automated fetches with HTTP 403 across batches) - content via product-page description, same standing limitation as Batch-01/98.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-337-08
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[10]Batch-5059 search ledger (this record): NavSource main page + hosted report scans; NARA Special List 44 ship-number PDF (verified p.23); NARA Catalog API (RG 24 muster rolls, RG 38 action reports - digitized); NHHC photo NH 105654; NHHC DANFS DE-413 and ARS-35 entries; NHHC DANFS hull entry (no entry exists); NVR (no entry - pre-1987 disposal); uboat.net; shipbuildinghistory.com; secondary web litigation sweep; CourtListener (status as logged) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-337-01 through -12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, insulation material schedule, or verified litigation naming USS LCI(L)-337 / LCI(R)-337 / LCI(G)-337 was found in the public sources searched. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case; asbestos content about LCIs or Brown Shipbuilding exists only in law-firm marketing listicles (mesothelioma.net, asbestos.com, mesotheliomaveterans.org, mesotheliomalawyercenter.org) asserting asbestos without primary sourcing - excluded by source policy. No government survey of Brown Shipbuilding located (contrast: Barracuda's builder had NIOSH HETA 78-135-1333; no equivalent exists here).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard. Open leads: NARA RG 24 deck logs (SL44 coverage 12/21/1942-12/14/1945) undigitized-to-uncataloged for this hull; Brown Shipbuilding yard work packages; 1947 sale contract documentation (Berry sale / Oklahoma-Philippines Co.). Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. CourtListener status per search_ledger (see sl-09).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-337-09
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[11]DANFS (NHHC), Weight (ARS-35) - names 'LCI(L)-337' at Naples, early January 1944 (number collision; not this hull) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Weight (ARS-35) entry, paragraph dated 'On 2 January 1944'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- CORRECTION / COLLISION: The DANFS entry for the salvage vessel USS Weight (ARS-35) records that at Naples in early January 1944 Weight 'freed the port screw of the large infantry landing craft LCI(L)-337.' This cannot be USS LCI(L)-337 of this record: NavSource's campaign table and photographic record place this hull offloading Marines at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, on 26 December 1943 - days before the Naples event and an impossible transit apart. The Royal Navy operated same-numbered Lend-Lease LCI(L)s in the Mediterranean (e.g., HMS LCI(L)-5, HM LCI(L)-10 documented by NHHC/USCG pages), so the Weight reference most plausibly names a British-manned LCI(L) carrying the same number, or contains a number transcription error. It is logged so the Naples service is not attributed to this hull.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- January 1944
- Limitations
- Which vessel the Weight entry actually names is unresolved here - RN LCI(L) pennant overlaps are the probable explanation, but no RN roster was checked line-by-line to confirm a British 337 existed. Either way, January-1944 Naples service is excluded from this hull's history. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-337-10
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[12]uboat.net Allied Warships, USS LCI(L)-337 (LCI(L)-337) - build data and Cape Gloucester order-of-battle entry [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/21360.html header block and 'Notable events' Operation Dexterity TU 76.1.32 listing
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- uboat.net corroborates: LCI 1 class Landing Craft Infantry, pennant LCI(L)-337, built by Brown Shipbuilding Company (Houston, TX), laid down 22 Sep 1942, launched 21 Oct 1942, commissioned 21 Dec 1942; 'Reclassified as LCI(R), Landing Craft Rocket on 10 July 1945.' Its Operation Dexterity (Cape Gloucester, 26 Dec 1943) order of battle places her in Task Unit 76.1.32 (Beach Yellow Two) with Lt.(jg) M.D. Skelton, USNR, commanding - consistent with NavSource's captioned photo of her offloading Marines at Yellow Beach Two that morning.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1945
- Population
- Crew under Lt.(jg) M.D. Skelton USNR (Dec 1943)
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation (allied-warship database); dates track the same sources as NavSource. The CO name (Lt.(jg) Skelton, Dec 1943) differs from the Sept 1944 CO (Lt.(jg) Moen, per muster roll) - a command change between operations, not a conflict. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-337-11
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[13]Shipbuilding History (Colton), 'Landing Craft, Infantry (Large) - LCI(L)' builder roster - row for hull 337 [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipbuildinghistory.com/smallships/lcil.htm Brown SB block, hull 337 row
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Independent yard-roster corroboration: the Colton LCI(L) builder table carries hull 337 as 'LCI(L) | R | 337 | Brown SB | Houston TX | 21-Dec-42 | Sold 1947' - matching Brown Shipbuilding build, the 21 December 1942 commissioning/delivery date, the R (rocket) conversion flag, and the 1947 sale disposition.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Limitations
- Secondary compiler roster; consistent with NavSource/NHHC but not a primary registry. The 'Sold 1947' disposition does not name the buyer (NavSource's Oklahoma-Philippines Co. 'Berry sale' attribution remains hedged 'probably'). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-337-12