Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet pc-packet.md (3 sources cited) [museum_official]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS LCI(L)-425
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-425-lcil425-pkt-pc-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); RG 24 (Bureau of Naval Personnel) deck-log holdings, Entry 118 / NAID 581208 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Special List 44, ship-number list, PDF page 15, row 'LCI(L)(FF)-425 | 6/22/1943 | 6/30/1945'; parent page https://www.archives.gov/research/military/logbooks/navy
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's Special List 44 (ship-number sequence) inventories Navy deck logs for 'LCI(L)(FF)-425' covering 6/22/1943 - 6/30/1945 - log coverage spanning this hull's wartime commissioned period (the 22 June 1943 log start coincides with her commissioning date, but coverage dates are log holdings only, not milestone assertions). The (FF) styling in the inventory reflects the final designation applied to the whole log span even though the LC(FF) redesignation occurred 31 December 1944.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1945
- Population
- Crew and embarked flotilla staff (1943-45 log coverage)
- Limitations
- Inventory of archival holdings, not the logs themselves: the deck logs are undigitized (no entry on NARA's digitized-logs index for this hull). Coverage ends 6/30/1945 - occupation-era and inactivation logs are not in this listing. Contains no asbestos content; establishes only that contemporaneous operational logs exist at NARA.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-425-lcil425-01
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[3]Navy and Marine Corps Awards Manual, NAVPERS 15,790 (Rev. 1953), Part IV, Section 2-16 - campaign-participation tables (HyperWar/ibiblio transcription; canonical NHHC page returned 404) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Awards-IV-16.html, campaign legend (P33-1 'Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima'; P34-1 'Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto') and LCI table row 'LCI 425: 19 Feb 45 - 26 Feb 45, P33-1; 1 Apr 45 - 15 Apr 45, P34-1'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official Navy awards listing credits LCI 425 with campaign code P33-1 - assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, credited dates 19 Feb 45 - 26 Feb 45 - and P34-1 - assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, credited dates 1 Apr 45 - 15 Apr 45. This matches NavSource's two battle stars for this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- Crew during Iwo Jima and Okinawa operations (Feb-Apr 1945)
- Limitations
- Establishes campaign participation for award purposes only; contains no asbestos, casualty, or material content. Cited via HyperWar transcription of the official Navy manual - the live NHHC copy of this manual section returned 404 on 2026-09-30, consistent with standing NHHC link-rot noted in BATCH-01.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-425-lcil425-02
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[4]Operation Plan ComFIFTHFleet No. 13-44, ANNEX C - Movement Plan, United States Pacific Fleet, FIFTH Fleet, Pearl Harbor, 31 December 1944, Serial 00040 (HyperWar scan of the archival document) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Annex C Movement Plan, TG 51.13 Tractor Group BAKER task organization, 'Mortar Support Group - Captain Rook / LCI(L) 425 (GF)' (scanned page e-3 of the annex)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The Iwo Jima operation plan's task organization lists 'LCI(L) 425 (GF)' as the flagship of the Mortar Support Group (Captain Rook) within TG 51.13, Tractor Group BAKER - a ship-specific operational assignment for the February 1945 Iwo Jima assault, consistent with her LC(FF) flotilla-flagship redesignation of the same date (31 December 1944).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-12-31 to 1945-02
- Population
- Crew; Mortar Support Group staff embarked (Feb 1945)
- Limitations
- Planning document - establishes the assignment and group-flagship role in the plan; actual participation is separately confirmed by the NAVPERS awards listing (ev-02). Contains no asbestos content. OCR text of the scan is degraded but the 'LCI(L) 425 (GF)' line is legible.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-425-lcil425-03
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[5]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LC(FF)-425 ex USS LCI(L)-425 (item 150425) - construction, designation, flotilla assignment, campaigns, awards, specifications, disposal timeline (history credited to 'USS LCI: Landing Craft Infantry' Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150425.htm header block, campaign table, specifications block, photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Timeline for this hull: laid down 10 March 1943 at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, N.J.; launched 24 May 1943; commissioned USS LCI(L)-425 22 June 1943, LTjg. C. H. Bergesson USNR in command '(May 1945)'; redesignated Landing Craft (Flotilla Flagship) USS LC(FF)-425 on 31 December 1944; assigned Asiatic-Pacific Theater under LC(FF) Flotilla Twenty-Three (LCDR R. H. Brazeal), Group Sixty-Seven, Division One Hundred Thirty-Four; campaigns - Iwo Jima (19-26 Feb 1945) and Okinawa Gunto (1-15 Apr 1945); occupation service in the Far East 3 February - 10 April 1946; decommissioned 'date unknown'; struck 'date unknown'; transferred to the Maritime Commission 1 November 1947; final disposition 'fate unknown'; two battle stars - awards displayed: Combat Action Ribbon (Iwo Jima, retroactive), American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (two stars), World War II Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Medal with Asia clasp. Spec block: 246 t. light / 264 t. landing / 419 t. loaded; 158'5.5" x 23'3"; 16 kts max; complement 4 officers + 24 enlisted; troop capacity 6 + 182; five single 20 mm guns; two sets of 4 GM diesels (4 per shaft), 1,600 BHP, twin variable-pitch propellers. Photograph: moored pierside at Pier 92, U.S. Naval Receiving Station, New York, date unknown (U.S. Navy photo via USS LCI National Association newsletter Elsie Item, March 2010).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1947
- Population
- Construction trades, New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber NJ (1943); crew and embarked troops (1943-46)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - milestone dates corroborated where possible (commissioning matched by uboat.net and NavalCoverMuseum; campaign dates confirmed ship-specific by NAVPERS 15,790; the Iwo Jima flagship role confirmed by Op Plan 13-44). The '(May 1945)' qualifier on the commanding-officer listing is ambiguous as to whether Bergesson was the commissioning CO or a later CO. The official 1 May 1945 Pacific Fleet organization document does not list hull 425 under Group 67 / Division 134 - see gaps. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-425-lcil425-04
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[6]U.S. Navy Radio Call Sign Book (WWII), Section 18 - U.S. Navy ships by classes (HyperWar/ibiblio transcription) [other_primary]
- Locator
- CallSigns-18.html, LCI section row 'LCI (L) 425 | NKIY'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The wartime Navy call-sign book lists 'LCI (L) 425' assigned international radio call sign NKIY - corroborating hull identity under U.S. Navy control during the war and matching the call sign displayed on the NavSource page.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1945 (wartime call-sign book)
- Limitations
- Identity corroboration only; contains no asbestos content and no service detail beyond the call-sign assignment.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-425-lcil425-05
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[7]Era inference built on: NavSource specifications block (two sets of 4 General Motors diesels, 4 per shaft, 1,600 BHP, twin variable-pitch propellers - no steam plant); GAO HRD-80-2 Navy asbestos program documentation (see ev-07) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150425.htm specifications block; GAO HRD-80-2 product page
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel-powered landing craft built in 1943 sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era; era-standard applications aboard a small diesel craft of this type and period were engine and diesel-exhaust lagging, machinery gaskets, valve packing, and electrical/switchboard insulation in the confined hull volume. As a diesel craft she carried no steam plant - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1947
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades (1943); crew (1943-46); any inactivation/disposal workforce (1946-47)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for LCI(L)-425. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. Product names are normalized era terms; no manufacturer attribution for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-425-lcil425-06
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[8]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 (1943) and service era.
- 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 (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403 - same standing defect as BATCH-01/BATCH-98) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-425-lcil425-07
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[9]Batch-5139 search ledger (this record): NARA Special List 44; NARA digitized-logs index and catalog; NHHC DANFS and photography index; NHHC Pacific Fleet organization 1 May 1945; NAVPERS 15,790 awards manual; ComFifthFleet Op Plan 13-44; WWII call-sign book; NavSource; uboat.net; NavalCoverMuseum; NVR; MARAD vessel-history database; CourtListener (opinions and dockets); secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-425-lcil425-01 through -19
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed case naming LCI(L)-425 / LC(FF)-425 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener returned zero opinion results for all four hull spellings ('LCI(L)-425', 'LC(FF)-425', 'LCI-425', 'LCI(L) 425') and zero docket results for the combined parenthesized spellings. One broader class-level CourtListener query ('LCI(L)' asbestos) was throttled by the fleet pacing limiter and remains open - logged as blocked, not a negative result. Secondary web sweeps surfaced only law-firm marketing material asserting asbestos aboard LCI-type craft generally without primary sourcing - excluded by source policy.
- 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 - deck logs, builder-yard records, and the Maritime Commission disposal file are undigitized leads, and the class-level litigation sweep is incomplete (throttled). Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-425-lcil425-08