Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]National Archives and Records Administration, Special List 44, 'Ships by Ship Number' PDF inventory of Navy logbooks, entry 'LCI(L)(G)-365 8/12/1943 6/30/1945' [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, PDF page 17, LCI(L)(G) sequence (between LCI(L)(G)-347 and LCI(L)(G)-366); RG 24 Entry 118
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NARA Special List 44 (List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947) inventories deck logbooks for this hull under the spelling 'LCI(L)(G)-365' with coverage 8/12/1943 to 6/30/1945 - a wartime service window matching the commissioning date (1943-08-12) through mid-1945, after the craft was knocked out of action (1945-01-10). The logs are part of Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, RG 24, Entry 118 (NARA identifier 581208), National Archives at College Park; this hull's logs do not appear on NARA's digitized-deck-logs online list.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-08-12 to 1945-06-30 (log coverage)
- Population
- Ship's company and embarked troops during the logged period
- Limitations
- The inventory documents that logbooks for this hull exist and their coverage dates - it is not itself a deck log and contains no operational, materials, or asbestos content. Coverage dates bound the service window; they are log-coverage dates, not asserted commissioning/decommissioning dates (though the start date coincides with the recorded commissioning date).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-365-lcil365-01
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[2]NavSource Online, Amphibious Photo Archive, 'USS LCI(G)-365 ex USS LCI(L)-365' page - build record, campaign table, awards, specifications; page credits the history to 'USS LCI "Landing Craft Infantry", Vol. II' (Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Page chronology block, Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns table, photo caption, and Specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Compiled timeline for this hull: laid down 9 July 1943 at George Lawley & Sons, Neponset, MA; launched 3 August 1943; commissioned USS LCI(L)-365 12 August 1943, ENS J. L. Mills in command; redesignated Landing Craft Gunboat LCI(G)-365 on 15 June 1944; Asiatic-Pacific service with LCI Flotilla Three (Marshall Islands - Kwajalein/Majuro 31 Jan-7 Feb 1944 and Eniwetok 17-25 Feb 1944; Marianas - Guam 21-25 July 1944; Leyte landings October 1944; Luzon - Lingayen Gulf 9 January 1945); at Guam the ship took multiple direct hits from shore guns with 7 killed and 15 wounded, then repaired at Pearl Harbor; on the morning after the 9 January 1945 Lingayen rocket run she was hit by a suicide boat and was out of action for the rest of the war; struck from the Naval Register 21 January 1946; transferred to the State Department / War Assets Administration 15 August 1946 for disposal; final disposition listed as unknown. Awards: four battle stars plus Navy Unit Commendation as a member of LCI(G) Flotilla 3 (31 Jan - 28 Jul 1944).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- Ship's company (LCI(G) spec: 5 officers + 65 enlisted) and embarked flag staff; construction trades (Lawley, 1943)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-compiled archive transcribing a veterans'-association history volume - a secondary compilation, not an official record. Key dates cross-check against official sources: commissioning date (1943-08-12) corroborated by NARA SL44 log-coverage start and the Lawley yard list; the Guam action and Lingayen loss corroborated by the ship's own action report (NAID 78595689) and the official USN WWII chronology. 'Decommissioned, date unknown' and 'final disposition, fate unknown' are the compiler's framings - the record is resolved to constructive-total-loss/WAA-disposal status from the other sources. Organization listing (Group Nine, Division Seventeen) differs from the action report's contemporaneous assignment (Division Fifteen, Group Eight, TU 53.4.6) - assignment periods differ, not reconciled. No asbestos or materials content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-365-lcil365-02
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[3]National Archives Catalog, NAID 78595689, 'USS LCI(G) 365 - Rep of Ops During Landings on Guam Is, Marianas, 7/21/44' - RG 38 (Records of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations), series 'World War II War Diaries, Other Operational Records and Histories' (NAID 4697018, HMS/MLR P 17); micro serial 83937, file A16-3, microfilm roll A1117; 6 digitized images [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAID 78595689 record page; images 1-6 (basic letter p.1; Enclosure A casualty list; Enclosure B battle damage pp.1-2), NARA at College Park
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The ship's own action report for the 21 July 1944 Agat Beach, Guam assault landings survives digitized in the National Archives: 'U.S.S. LCI(G) 365 - Action Report - submission of', Flagship, LCI(G) Division Fifteen, Group Eight, Flotilla Three, operating as TU 53.4.6, CO to Commander-in-Chief U.S. Fleet dated 24 July 1944. The report records the division composition (365(F), 366, 437, 439, 440, 442, 450, 474, 475), the mission (precede assault waves into beaches Yellow 1-2 and White 1-2 with 20mm/40mm fire and two 4.5-inch rocket salvos), and the ship taking direct hits and near misses; Enclosure A (25 July 1944) lists personnel casualties - seven enlisted men dead (Gibbs, Lesczynski, Martin, Nemeth, Mossman, Harrison, Wilkinson), two staff and one ship's officer wounded (LT H.P. Rabenstein, ComDiv15; Schouten MoMM2/c; LT(jg) George E. Mills seriously wounded), and further critically wounded/wounded/returned-to-duty categories, all casualties transferred to USS Fayette (APA-43); Enclosure B itemizes battle damage from 75mm or 4.7-inch shellfire (frame-6 hull breach, destroyed watertight doors, galley/radio-shack/mast damage, shrapnel throughout) and recommends thorough overhaul, noting the ship 'greatly weakened structurally'. Signed T. H. Fortson.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-07-21 (action); 1944-07-24/25 (report)
- Population
- Ship's company (~70) plus Rear Admiral Conolly's embarked flag staff; casualties treated aboard USS Fayette (APA-43)
- Limitations
- Primary wartime record authored by the ship - documents the Guam action, division organization, casualties by name, and material damage; it contains no asbestos or construction-materials information. The damage list does not give a total hit count - secondary sources variously say 9 or 10 direct hits; this record does not reconcile the count. OCR/transcription of the microfilm images is imperfect; individual name spellings approximate.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-365-lcil365-03
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[4]Robert J. Cressman, 'The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II' (Naval Historical Center / NHHC publication), 1945 chapter, 10 January entry - HyperWar transcription [other_primary]
- Locator
- USN-Chron-1945.html, '10 January, Wed. - Pacific' entry
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official U.S. Navy chronology of World War II records under 10 January 1945, Pacific: 'Japanese assault demolition boats infiltrate the transport areas off Lingayen, sinking infantry landing craft (mortar) LCI(M)-974, 16 deg 06'N, 120 deg 14'E and infantry landing craft (gunboat) LCI(G)-365, and damaging destroyers Robinson (DD-562) and Philip (DD-498), transport War Hawk (AP-168) and tank landing ship LST-610.' This is the official-source statement that LCI(G)-365 was lost to enemy action at Lingayen on 10 January 1945 - the suicide-boat attack described in detail by secondary accounts (hit at anchor ~0445 by an explosive motorboat, flooding and port list, most of crew transferred to USS Alpine (APA-92), orders to beach if sinking, never repaired).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-01-10
- Population
- Ship's company; crews of USS Alpine (APA-92) (receiver of survivors)
- Limitations
- The chronology says 'sinking ... LCI(G)-365'; whether the craft literally sank at anchorage, was beached, or survived as an abandoned hulk later disposed of is not stated - NavSource says 'out of action for the rest of the war' with WAA disposal 1946-08-15, and the Lawley yard list records 'CTL 1945, sold 1946?'. The veterans' association loss list dates the sinking 1945-01-09 (zone-time/date convention); the official chronology date (10 January) is used here. No position is given for LCI(G)-365 itself (the published coordinate belongs to LCI(M)-974). No materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-365-lcil365-04
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[5]Commander Task Force 77, Operation Plan 13-44 Annex A (task organization) - wartime Navy operation plan, HyperWar transcription [other_primary]
- Locator
- Annex A task-organization table, 'LCI Flotilla 6 (temp) Comdr. MONTGOMERY' line listing LCI(G) hulls
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Task Force 77 operation plan for the Leyte invasion (MUSKETEER/KING II, OpPlan 13-44, Annex A task organization) lists 'LCI(G), 365, 366, 407, 422, 439, 440, 442, 475, 558, 599, 560, 561, 565, 567, 568, 580, 751, 752' - 18 LCI(G) gunboats under 'LCI Flotilla 6 (temp) Comdr. MONTGOMERY' - documenting LCI(G)-365's assigned role in the October 1944 Leyte landings, consistent with secondary accounts of a 20 October 1944 rocket barrage ahead of the first wave at Dulag.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-10 (plan); landings 1944-10-20
- Population
- Ship's company during Leyte operation
- Limitations
- Task-organization listing documents assignment to the Leyte operation; it does not record what the craft did during the landings (execution detail comes from secondary accounts, e.g., the Dulag rocket barrage). No materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-365-lcil365-05
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[6]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
- Article, AJIM 11(3):359-373 (Wiley Online Library, resolved via DOI)
- 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 1943 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
- 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-365-lcil365-06
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[7]LCI(L)-351-class specification block (NavSource USS LCI(G)-365 page, propulsion section: 'two sets of 4 General Motors Diesel engines, four per shaft, BHP 1,600, twin variable pitch propellers') + HyperWar 'Transport Doctrine, Amphibious Forces, U.S. Pacific Fleet' ch. 2 LCI(L) type table (8-225 HP Diesel) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource page, Specifications block (propulsion line); ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ref/Transport/transport-2.html, LCI(L) 351-Up table row
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- The LCI(L)-351 class was a diesel-powered beaching craft: the class specification records eight General Motors diesel engines in two four-engine sets (four per shaft) with twin variable-pitch propellers, and the wartime Amphibious Forces transport-doctrine table lists the type's plant as '8-225 HP Diesel' - 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.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1945
- Population
- Engine-room crew; construction trades (Lawley, Neponset, 1943)
- Limitations
- The diesel configuration is documented for the class; 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 spec block is an unofficial archive transcription; no BuShips materials list for this hull or class was located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-365-lcil365-07
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[8]U.S. General Accounting Office, 'Effectiveness of the Navy's Asbestos Program,' GAO/HRD-80-2 (1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2
- 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 (1943) and service life (1943-1945).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- report 1979; practice window spans this hull's 1943 build
- Population
- Navy crews shipwide (class context)
- Limitations
- Program-level finding about Navy-wide insulation practice; does not name this vessel or any landing craft and does not establish that asbestos was aboard this hull. gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetchers (standing access defect since batch-01); the product-page description was used and full text remains an open lead.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-365-lcil365-08
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[9]Batch-5090 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS URL-pattern check; NavSource Amphibious Photo Archive; NARA Special List 44 and Catalog; HyperWar official-document transcriptions; shipbuildinghistory.com Lawley yard list; USS LCI National Association; CourtListener sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-365-lcil365-04, -06, -10, -11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or materials list naming USS LCI(L)-365 / LCI(G)-365 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). No DANFS entry exists for this hull (the NHHC DANFS URL pattern 404s; NavSource attributes the history to Turner Publishing's USS LCI volume, not DANFS). The ship was knocked out of action January 1945 and disposed of through the War Assets Administration in 1946 - before the survey and abatement documentation regimes that generate most hull-level asbestos records - and the hull's wreck-versus-scrapped status is unresolved, so no modern survey can exist.
- 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 - 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-365-lcil365-09
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[10]CourtListener API v4 searches, type=o: '"LCI(G)-365" OR "LCI(L)-365" OR "LCI-365"' (0 hits) and '"LCI(G) 365" OR "LCIG-365" OR "LCI(L) 365"' (0 hits), authenticated helper, 2026-09-30 [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-365-lcil365-12, -13, and -16
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- CourtListener API v4 (authenticated, fleet-paced helper) opinion searches on 2026-09-30 returned zero hits for both designation sets - '"LCI(G)-365" OR "LCI(L)-365" OR "LCI-365"' and '"LCI(G) 365" OR "LCIG-365" OR "LCI(L) 365"': no opinion names this hull under any spelling or designation. The docket-type sweep and a '"landing craft" asbestos' control query were blocked by the shared fleet pacing budget at session time and are logged honestly in the ledger.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- accessed 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- A hull-name negative does not establish that crew members never filed claims - wartime crew exposure claims would name defendants (builders, product manufacturers, the government), not the hull number, and RECAP/opinion coverage of wartime-era asbestos litigation is inherently thin. Queries not completed due to fleet pacing are disclosed in the ledger rather than silently omitted.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-365-lcil365-10
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[11]National Archives and Records Administration record groups RG 38 (WWII War Diaries series NAID 4697018), RG 24 (deck logs, Entry 118/NAID 581208), RG 19 (BuShips) - mapped, not retrieved; Lingayen action report cited in Rielly, 'American Amphibious Gunboats in World War II' endnotes and Pacific Wrecks reference line [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-365-lcil365-08 and -14
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival path for any deeper record: the hull's Lingayen action report exists - a published LCI(G) operational history's endnotes cite 'USS LCI(G) 365, Serial None, Action Report, Submission of, 12 January 1945' and a wreck-database reference lists a 'NARA Action Report in the invasion of Lingayen Gulf, Luzon January 9-12, 1945'; the record sits in the same RG 38 WWII operational records series as the digitized Guam report but no catalog identifier was located. Deck logs (RG 24, SL44 coverage 1943-08-12 to 1945-06-30) are not among NARA's digitized deck logs. RG 19 (Bureau of Ships records - LCI(L)/LCI(G) conversion design and any materials specifications) is the path for any materials-level specification. None of these holdings was retrieved.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- Record-group mapping is a research path, not evidence about this hull; holdings' contents were not examined and their coverage of this craft's materials is unknown. The Lingayen action report's existence is established by two independent bibliographic references but its NARA catalog identifier was not located - the report may not be digitized.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-365-lcil365-11