Evidence
13 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-13).
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[1]research packet 410-packet.md (4 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS LCI(L)-350 — 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-350-lcil350-pkt-410-packet-md
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[2]NARA, Special List #44 - List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947, ship-number list (PDF p. 23, LCI section) [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, PDF page 23, rows 'LCI(L)-350 2/4/1943 10/29/1943' and 'LCI(L)-350 12/1/1943 6/30/1945'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NARA inventories deck-log holdings for this hull in two windows: 'LCI(L)-350, 2/4/1943 - 10/29/1943' and 'LCI(L)-350, 12/1/1943 - 6/30/1945' (PDF p. 23). The first window opens on the hull's NavSource/shipbuildinghistory commissioning-delivery date (4 February 1943) and runs through her Tunisian, Sicilian, and Salerno campaigns; a roughly one-month gap (November 1943) coincides with her transfer to England (arrived Plymouth 3 November 1943); the second window covers the Normandy buildup and D-day, the 1944-45 stateside overhaul and Pacific transfer, and the first month of Okinawa operations. The logs are in Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, RG 24, at the National Archives.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-02 to 1943-10 and 1943-12 to 1945-06 (coverage windows)
- Population
- Crew (USCG-manned), 1943-1945
- Limitations
- This is an inventory of logbook holdings, not the logs' contents - it proves logs exist for these windows, not what they record. Log-coverage dates are not commissioning/decommissioning dates. No post-June-1945 window is inventoried for this hull although she remained in service to May 1946; the reason is not stated. Verified by direct pdftotext extraction of p. 23 ('LCI(L)-350 2/4/1943 10/29/1943' and 'LCI(L)-350 12/1/1943 6/30/1945').
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-350-lcil350-01
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[3]United States Coast Guard, 'The Coast Guard at War - Transports & Escorts, Vol. II: Transports,' Historical Section, Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 1 May 1949, entry 'LCI(L)-350' (printed p. 129) - HyperWar transcription [other_primary]
- Locator
- ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USCG/V2-Transports/index.html, entry 'LCI(L)-350' (printed p. 129)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official published Coast Guard war history carries a dedicated entry for this hull (header: FLOTILLA 35 - GROUP 103 - DIVISION 206). It states the Coast Guard-manned USS LCI(L)-350 'was commissioned at Orange, Texas on May 15, 1943'; commanding officers Lt. Moise H. Weil, USCGR, Lt. (jg) Pierce B. Uzzell, USCGR, Lt. (jg) Albert H. Brodkin, USCGR (December 1, 1944), and Lt. Ben E. Stone, USCGR (February 27, 1946). After Norfolk she went to North Africa; took part in the occupation of Sicily 9 July 1943 and the Salerno landings 9 September 1943; left North Africa late October, arrived Plymouth 3 November 1943 for seven months of amphibious training in Southern England; disembarked troops on Utah Beach D-day 6 June 1944 and ran cross-channel transport for a month; departed Falmouth 5 October 1944, arrived Charleston, SC 24 October 1944 for a month-and-a-half overhaul availability; 26 December 1944 departed Norfolk for San Diego via Key West and Canal Zone after new-crew amphibious training at Little Creek, VA and Solomons Island, MD; trained at the Naval Repair Base 24 January - 3 April 1945; departed San Diego 3 April 1945 via Pearl Harbor, Eniwetok, Guam, Ulithi, reached Okinawa 29 May 1945; smoke station at Kerama Retto daily until 14 July 1945, then Kenmu Wan, then Buckner Bay screening from the 23rd; left Okinawa 8 September 1945, reached Wakayama 11 September; destroyed mines on Kii Suido; grounded in a typhoon 17-18 September 1945 and laid up for repairs until 21 December; departed Wakayama 21 December 1945 via Kagoshima, Saipan, Eniwetok, Pearl Harbor; arrived San Pedro 14 March 1946; decommissioned there 3 May 1946.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- Published unit history, not a contemporaneous log - dates are as the volume prints them. Its 'May 15, 1943' commissioning date conflicts with NavSource's 4 February 1943 (corroborated by this hull's deck-log coverage opening 2/4/1943) - carried as an unresolved conflict, see ev-11 and gaps. Its commanding-officer list omits LT. Robert J. Read, whom NavSource and the USCG cutter file both show as first CO. Group/division numbers differ from the cutter file's header (Group 104 / Division 208). Entry carries no materiel or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-350-lcil350-02
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[4]U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office cutter file, 'USS LCI(L)-350' (LCI_350.pdf; sources: LCI(L) file, Coast Guard Historian's Office + The Coast Guard At War V: Transports & Escorts, pp. 117-130). ARCHIVED COPY - Wayback capture 2017-05-07; live uscg.mil/history hosts return HTTP 403 to automated fetch [other_primary]
- Locator
- LCI_350.pdf (2 pp.), spec block + 'History' narrative + 'Commanding Officers' list + 'Sources' note
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- USCG Historian's Office data sheet for this hull: builder Brown Shipbuilding Corporation, Texas; spec block prints 'Commissioned: 15 May 1943' (conflicts with NavSource's 4 February 1943 and this hull's NARA log-coverage opening 2/4/1943 - carried unresolved); decommissioned 3 May 1946; transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal 23 June 1947. Spec block: length 158'6" oa; beam 23'3"; draft 2'8" forward, 5'3" aft (beaching); displacement 216 t light / 234 t beaching / 389 t full load; 8 x GM diesels, twin shafts (4 per shaft), 1,600 hp, twin variable-pitch propellers; range 4,000 @ 12 knots; top speed 15.5 knots; complement 3 officers + 21 enlisted; troops 188; cargo 75 tons; 4 x 20mm single mounts + 2 x .50 cal; 2-inch plastic splinter armor on gun shields, conning tower, pilot house. Header line 'Flotilla 4 / 10 / 35, Group 104, Division 208.' Narrative matches the published volume (commissioned at Orange, TX 15 May 1943 under LT Robert J. Read, USCG; Sicily 9 Jul 1943; Salerno 9 Sep 1943; Plymouth 3 Nov 1943; Utah Beach D-day; Charleston overhaul arrival 24 Oct 1944; Okinawa 29 May 1945; smoke station; Kii Suido mine destruction; typhoon grounding 17-18 Sep 1945; repairs to 21 Dec; San Pedro 14 Mar 1946; decommissioned 3 May 1946) and adds that she earned six battle stars and that all Flotilla 10 LCI(L)s were retroactively awarded the Coast Guard Unit Commendation.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- ARCHIVED copy - the live uscg.mil and history.uscg.mil hosts both return HTTP 403 to automated fetch, so the 2017 Wayback capture is cited and labeled. The spec block's 'Commissioned: 15 May 1943' conflicts with NavSource's 4 February 1943 and with the cutter file's own CO list ('LT Robert J. Read, USCG (Jan. 1943-Jan. 1944)') - unresolved, see ev-11. Its Group 104 / Division 208 header differs from the published volume's Group 103 / Division 206. Contains no materiel or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-350-lcil350-03
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[5]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-350 - construction milestones, campaign table, awards, specifications, disposition (history credited to 'USS LCI "Landing Craft Infantry," Vol. II,' Turner Publishing Company, 1995, ISBN 1-56311-262-0; commanding-officer table courtesy US Coast Guard Historian's Office) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.net/archives/10/15/150350.htm (HTTP 200 verified 2026-09-30)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull (live page verified HTTP 200, 2026-09-30): laid down 14 November 1942 at Brown Shipbuilding Corp., Houston, TX; launched 21 December 1942; commissioned USS LCI(L)-350, 4 February 1943, at Orange, TX, LT. Robert J. Read, USCG in command; 'manned by the US Coast Guard'; assigned Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater, LCI Flotilla Four and LCI Flotilla Ten, 'LCI Group Twenty-Nine, LCI Division Fifty-Seven'; campaign table - Tunisian operation 1 June-9 July 1943, Sicilian occupation 9 July 1943, Salerno landings 9 September 1943, Invasion of Normandy (landed troops Utah Beach 6 June 1944 and made subsequent cross-channel trips); proceeded to Plymouth late October 1943 for Normandy training; departed Falmouth 5 October 1944 for Charleston, SC overhaul and repair; reassigned Asiatic-Pacific Theater, LCI Flotilla Thirty-Five (CDR. H. J. Wuensch, USCG), LCI Group One Hundred-Three (LCDR. B. A. Walliser, USCGR); departed Norfolk 26 December 1944; arrived San Diego 24 January 1945; departed 3 April 1945 for Okinawa via Pearl Harbor, Guam, Eniwetok, Ulithi; arrived Kerama Rhetto 29 May 1945; smoke-station and screening duty off Okinawa; Wakayama mine destruction, typhoon grounding and repairs; decommissioned 3 May 1946 at San Pedro, CA; struck from the Naval Register in 1946; six battle stars for WWII service; transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal 23 June 1947, fate unknown. Spec block: 236 t light / 264 t landing / 419 t loaded; 158'5.5" x 23'3"; 16 kts max / 14 kts continuous; complement 4 officers + 24 enlisted; troop capacity 6 officers + 182 enlisted; cargo 75 tons; 5 x single 20mm (+2 x .50 cal on some); 2-inch plastic splinter protection; endurance 4,000 mi @ 12 kts loaded; fuel 860 bbls diesel + 200 gal lube; 2 sets x 4 GM 6051-series-71 diesels, GM main reduction gears, 2 x 30 kW 120V DC generators, twin variable-pitch propellers, 2,320 shp. Awards listing: Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive 6 June 1944), Coast Guard Unit Commendation, American Campaign Medal, EAME Campaign Medal (4), Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2), WWII Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Service Medal with Asia clasp.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- NavSource is a secondary compilation, not a primary source - its history is credited to Turner Publishing's USS LCI Vol. II (1995) and its CO table to the USCG Historian's Office, so convergence with USCG sources is expected, not independent corroboration. Internal inconsistency: the page's narrative commissions her 4 February 1943 while its own CO table starts Read's command '15 May 1943' (the USCG date) - carried unresolved, see ev-11. Spec block's heavier displacement/5-gun fit resembles the second-series class figures rather than the ONI-type LCI(L)-1-class block - variant logged in gaps. Its Pacific group/division identifiers differ from the USCG sources. No materiel or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-350-lcil350-04
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[6]HyperWar, 'Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945 - Landing Ships and Craft' (ONI-type compilation): LCI(L)-1-class hull table and class specification block [other_primary]
- Locator
- ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/ships-lc.html, LCI(L)-1-class table row 'LCI(L)-350 1942-44' and class spec block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official-type hull listing places 'LCI(L)-350, 1942-44' in the LCI(L)-1-class table - the last hull in the first-series table (second-series table begins at LCI(L)-351) - with no loss note and no conversion designation, consistent with the USCG/NavSource record that she remained an LCI(L) throughout (never LCI(G)/LCI(R)/LCI(M)). The first-series class spec block reads: displacement 387 t full load; length 160'; beam 23'3"; draft 5'4" fwd / 5'11" aft (full load); speed 15.5 kt; armament 4 x 20mm; complement 3 officers + 21 enlisted; capacity 6 officers + 182 troops or 75 t cargo; 2 sets G.M. diesel engines, twin variable-pitch screws, 1,600 BHP.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- ONI-type compiled table, not a ship-specific document - confirms no conversion and no wartime loss, nothing more. Its class spec block differs from both NavSource's hull spec (387 t vs 419 t loaded; 4 x 20mm vs 5; 1,600 BHP vs 2,320 shp) and the USCG cutter-file block - variants logged in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-350-lcil350-05
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[7]shipbuildinghistory.com LCI(L) construction table - row 'LCI(L) 350 | Brown Shipbuilding | Houston TX | FY42 | Feb-43 | Struck 1946' (ARCHIVED COPY - Wayback capture 2010-05-27) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Wayback 2010-05-27 capture, lcil.htm table row 'LCI(L) 350'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Compiled construction table corroborates: builder Brown Shipbuilding, Houston TX; fiscal year 1942; delivery February 1943 (consistent with the 4 February 1943 commissioning in NavSource); 'Struck 1946' (consistent with NavSource's 'struck in 1946'). The yard's own hull list puts LCI(L)-350 as hull #54 - the last of Brown's 32 LCI(L)s (hulls 319-350).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- ARCHIVED copy - the live shipbuildinghistory.com domain no longer serves this table; Wayback capture used and labeled. Compiled construction table - corroborates builder/delivery/striking only; no service history and no materiel content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-350-lcil350-06
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[8]Era inference built on: NavSource/HyperWar/USCG spec blocks (all-diesel LCI(L)-1 class; twin GM diesel sets, no steam plant); Corn & Starr AJIM 1987 (WWII shipbuilding asbestos, PMID 3555021); GAO HRD-80-2 (Navy asbestos insulation into the 1970s) [other_primary]
- Citation URL
- None
- Locator
- Inference row - no ship-specific document
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel-powered landing craft built Nov-Dec 1942 at a wartime Gulf Coast yard sits inside the Navy's era of extensive asbestos use aboard ships. Era-standard applications aboard a small naval landing craft of this period: engine and diesel-exhaust insulation, machinery gaskets and packing, electrical insulation, and insulation of crew spaces. As a diesel craft she carried no steam plant - the boiler and steam-line lagging that dominated shipboard asbestos tonnage were absent by design on this type.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- INFERENCE - no ship-specific document locates asbestos aboard this hull; class/era pattern only. Small amphibious craft carried far less insulation than combatants; which applications (if any) were present, disturbed, or removed aboard LCI(L)-350 specifically is undocumented. Not a finding of exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-350-lcil350-07
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[9]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), PMID 3555021 [other_primary]
- Locator
- AJIM 11(3):359-373 (1987); PMID 3555021
- 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 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
- 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- Program-level scholarship - establishes the WWII shipbuilding asbestos era, not this hull's fit-out. DOI/Wiley return 403 to automated fetch; metadata verified live via NCBI eutils (PMID 3555021). Cannot be upgraded to ship-specific evidence.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-350-lcil350-08
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[10]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- gao.gov/products/hrd-80-2 product page
- 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 - the program-level era context covering this hull's 1942 construction and 1943-46 service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- Navy-wide program context - says nothing about this specific hull. gao.gov returns 403 to automated fetch (standing defect since Batch 01); product-page metadata verified previously. Cannot be upgraded to ship-specific evidence.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-350-lcil350-09
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[11]Batch-5074 search ledger (this record): NARA Special List 44 ship-number inventory (direct PDF extraction); USCG official published history (HyperWar V2-Transports); USCG Historian cutter file (Wayback); NavSource live page; HyperWar ONI-type hull table; shipbuildinghistory table (Wayback); USCG-manned LCI(L)s overview (history.uscg.mil); NHHC DANFS; NVR; NARA digitized deck logs; usslci.org [other_primary]
- Citation URL
- None
- Locator
- search_ledger sl-01 through sl-13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or litigation naming USS LCI(L)-350 / LCI-350 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener coverage this session: opinion-index search '"LCI(L)-350" OR "LCI-350"' returned zero hits (HTTP 200, authenticated); docket-index and spaced-variant sweeps were blocked by the fleet-wide pacing budget - logged as residual uncertainty, not a clean negative for those spellings. No DANFS entry exists for numbered landing craft. Deck logs are inventoried (RG 24) but not digitized.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- A negative finding is limited by the sources actually reachable: the opinion index is clean for the two primary hull spellings, but the docket index and spaced variants ('LCI 350', 'LCIL-350', 'LCI(L) 350', 'USS LCI(L)-350') never ran under fleet pacing. Hull-name negatives do not preclude crew claims filed under defendant names. Deck-log contents unread; builder/MarCom file repositories undigitized. Absence of located documentation is not proof asbestos was absent - it is reported, not resolved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-350-lcil350-10
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[12]Commissioning-date conflict across sources: USCG published history + Historian cutter file '15 May 1943' vs NavSource '4 February 1943' (also NavSource's own CO table: Read's command starts '15 May 1943') [other_primary]
- Citation URL
- None
- Locator
- NavSource narrative vs NavSource CO table vs USCG V2-Transports p. 129 vs LCI_350.pdf spec block vs sl-44 p. 23
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- CORRECTION/CONFLICT: the USCG published war history and the Historian's Office cutter file both date commissioning to 15 May 1943, while NavSource dates it 4 February 1943. NavSource's date is independently corroborated by two records: NARA's deck-log inventory opens this hull's log coverage exactly 2/4/1943 (deck logs begin at commissioning), and shipbuildinghistory lists a Feb-43 delivery. NavSource is internally inconsistent - its own commanding-officer table starts Read's command on 15 May 1943, matching the USCG sources. The record carries 4 February 1943 (batch brief plus dual corroboration) and flags the conflict unresolved; possibly the USCG date reflects a different administrative milestone (e.g., Coast Guard crew assumption or entry into service), but that is hypothesis only.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- Unresolved source conflict - disclosed, not reconciled. The USCG volume's commissioning dates for sister hulls also diverge from their log-coverage starts (cf. LCI(L)-349: '26 December 1942' vs logs opening 1/31/1943). No primary commissioning document located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-350-lcil350-11
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[13]U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office, 'U.S. Coast Guard-Manned LCI(L)s - Landing Craft Infantry (Large)' (program overview page; hull roster lists LCI(L)-350) [other_primary]
- Locator
- history.uscg.mil USCG-Manned LCI(L)s page, overview text + hull roster
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official USCG program overview: under a 1943 agreement between the Coast Guard Commandant and the Chief of Naval Operations, the Coast Guard supplied officers and crews for Navy LCI(L)s; 'Even though these vessels had Coast Guard crews all LCI(L)s remained commissioned US Navy vessels'; 28 landing ships were Coast Guard-manned; 24 were grouped into a single flotilla under Commander Miles Imlay, USCG, 'first known as Flotilla 4 for the invasion of Sicily and Salerno, its designation was changed to Flotilla 10 for Operation Overlord,' and after returning to the U.S. the flotilla was 'now designated as Flotilla 35' for Pacific service. The page's hull roster links a dedicated entry for LCI(L)-350 (Article 1834801), placing this hull inside the program.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- Fleet-level context - establishes the manning arrangement and flotilla sequence this hull belonged to; carries no hull-specific operational detail and no materiel/asbestos content. The linked dedicated article page (Article/1834801) is JS-rendered and exposes only navigation to automated fetch - its content was instead obtained via the archived Historian's Office cutter file (ev-03).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-350-lcil350-12