Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]NavSource Online Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-432 page (history compiled from USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry', Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource archive page 10/15/150432 (ship entry, campaign table, specifications block, photo caption) - verified live via fetch, 2026-09-30
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity, construction, and wartime record for this hull: laid down 9 April 1943 at New Jersey Shipbuilding Co., Barber, N.J.; launched 29 June 1943; commissioned USS LCI(L)-432 on 19 July 1943. Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater with credited campaigns: Hollandia operation '21 to 25 August 1944' as printed (see limitations - the April 1944 operation, confirmed by the transcribed operation order); Western New Guinea operations - Biak Island 27-28 May 1944 and Noemfoor Island 2-3 and 10-14 July 1944; Leyte operations - Leyte landings 12 October-29 November 1944; Manila Bay-Bicol operations - Nasugbu 31 January 1945. Four battle stars; ribbons listed: American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (4), World War II Victory Medal, Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Philippine Liberation Medal (2). Decommissioned date unknown; struck from the Naval Register 17 April 1946; sold 2 December 1946, fate unknown. Photograph of the ship beached at Noemfoor Island (July 1944) credited to 'When Victory Is Ours: Letters Home from the South Pacific 1943-1945' by Morris D. Coppersmith - the hull's documented commanding officer.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- Crew (LCI(L) 4+24) and embarked troops (up to 6 officers, 182 enlisted), 1943-1946
- Limitations
- NavSource is a compiled secondary reference (transcribing Turner Publishing's USS LCI volume and Navy records), not a contemporaneous log or Navy action report; campaign credits are official-list summaries. The page's campaign table carries a typographical slip - '21 to 25 August 1944' for the Hollandia operation, which ran 22 April 1944 onward (sister hull LCI(L)-430's page prints the identical window as 21-25 April 1944; the transcribed operation order places this hull in the 22 April 1944 echelon - see ev-03). The stricken date (17 April 1946) is single-source. Contains no asbestos information whatsoever.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-432-lcil432-01
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[2]National Archives and Records Administration, Special List 44: List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947 (by ship number), PDF p.23 [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, p.23, row 'LCI(L)-432 | 7/19/1943 | 6/30/1945' (verified by text extraction of the live NARA PDF, 2026-09-30)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's Special List 44 inventory (by ship number, PDF page 23) lists Navy deck logs for LCI(L)-432 covering 19 July 1943 through 30 June 1945 - in-scope wartime service documentation held in Record Group 24 (Bureau of Naval Personnel logs), retrievable for this hull. The coverage span begins on the commissioning date (19 July 1943) and runs to the 30 June 1945 cut-off common to the listing's wartime logs.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1945 (log coverage)
- Limitations
- The entry is an inventory record only - it establishes that NARA holds logbooks for this hull for the stated span, not their contents. The deck logs themselves were not opened for this record and are not among the logs digitized in the National Archives Catalog (catalog search could not be completed - JS-rendered SPA; see search_ledger). These are log-coverage dates, not asserted commissioning/decommissioning dates (the coverage start coincides with the NavSource commissioning date, but the inventory does not itself assert commissioning). No asbestos or condition information is contained in the listing.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-432-lcil432-02
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[3]uboat.net Allied Warships of WWII, USS LCI(L)-432 warship record (ship 21474) with transcribed operation orders; corroborating production-table row in shipbuildinghistory (Colton) LCI(L) list [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship/21474 data block and 'Notable events' sections dated 22 Apr 1944 and 15 Sep 1944 (verified live via fetch, 2026-09-30); shipbuildinghistory.njscuba.net/us-navy-small/lcil/ row 'LCI(L)-432' (verified live via fetch, 2026-09-30)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Compiled warship data corroborate the core record and add operational detail: uboat.net lists LCI(L)-432 as an LCI 351-class craft built by New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, N.J. - ordered 22 March 1943, laid down 9 April 1943, launched 29 June 1943, commissioned 19 July 1943 - and shows 'Sold on 2 December 1946'. Its transcribed operation orders place this hull in two Seventh Fleet amphibious operations: the 22 April 1944 Hollandia/Aitape landings (Operations Reckless/Persecution - Echelon R-1, Group E, departing Cape Cretin via Seeadler Harbour) and the 15 September 1944 Morotai landing (Operation Tradewind - Task Group 77.3.14), in each case in the LCI(L) group with COMLCIFLOT 7 (T/Cdr. H.F. McGee, USN) embarked on LCI(L)-28, and listing her commanding officer as Lt. M.D. Coppersmith, USNR. Colton's shipbuildinghistory LCI(L) production table independently lists 'LCI(L)-432 | New Jersey SB | Barber NJ | 19 Jul 1943 | sold 1946', consistent on builder, delivery, and disposal.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- Construction trades (Barber NJ, 1943); wartime crew under Lt. M.D. Coppersmith, USNR
- Limitations
- Both are reputable secondary compilations, not primary records. The task-group listings establish participation in the documented operations and LCI Flotilla 7 association; the Morotai operation does not appear among the credited campaigns on NavSource's page (see gaps). 'Ordered 22 Mar 1943' appears at uboat.net only. No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-432-lcil432-03
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[4]Library of Congress, Historic American Engineering Record HAER AK-52, M/V Husky II (USS LCI(L) 653) - LCI(L) 351-class written history and documentation; corroborated by HAER OR-180, LCI(L)-713 (Amphibious Forces Memorial Museum, Portland OR) [haer]
- Locator
- HAER AK-52 written history, historical-data page ('Builder: New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber, New Jersey'), 'LCIs in World War II' section (hull-range list incl. 423-657) and Part 4/5 physical description + cited BuShips spec and NARA RG 19 roll 5899; HAER OR-180 principal-measurements block (tile.loc.gov .../or0606data.pdf)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- HAER documents that this hull sits inside the covered class and that its own builder constructed the class: LCI(L)s were utilitarian wartime Bureau of Ships-designed craft (design May 1942; over 900 built by ten yards; 158.5 ft, welded steel), the working plans drawn by the Engineering Division of George Lawley & Son Corp., Boston, under the BuShips 'Detail and Special Specifications for Building Landing Craft Infantry (Large) LCI(L) 351-542' (1943), a range that includes hull 432; Lawley's LCI(L) 351-class plans survive at NARA (RG 19, microfilm roll 5899). HAER AK-52's own subject, LCI(L) 653, was built by New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, N.J. - the same yard as this hull - and the document lists that yard's production as LCI(L)s 239-318, 423-657, 782-821, and 866-884, a range block containing 432. Propulsion was all-diesel - eight six-cylinder General Motors Series 71 engines, four per shaft, twin variable-pitch propellers, 16-knot maximum - with no boilers or steam system, so the asbestos-relevant applications aboard are the era-standard diesel-craft items: engine exhaust and muffler lagging, thermal/acoustic insulation in the engine room and accommodations, gaskets, valve packing, and electrical insulation.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- Construction trades (Barber NJ, 1943); wartime crew in confined engine-room and accommodation spaces
- Limitations
- Class/design inference only - HAER AK-52 documents sister craft LCI(L) 653 (and OR-180 documents sister 713); neither names this hull and neither asserts asbestos content (the word does not appear in AK-52; its spray-on insulation references are a post-service refrigerated-hold conversion, not WWII construction - full text checked). No ship-specific material list exists for this hull; asbestos presence aboard is era- and design-level inference, not ship-proven. Does not establish quantity, products installed, or present-day presence (hull fate unknown since 1946).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-432-lcil432-04
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[5]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2, Highlights block
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO reviewed the Navy's efforts to protect workers from asbestos exposure at the Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards, including the use of asbestos in Navy ships, the cost of removal, and compensation programs; the Navy's 1975 policy (modified 1979) was to remove and replace with nonasbestos materials only insulation that was damaged or had to be removed for repairs - documentation spanning this hull's construction and service era (1943-46).
- 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 or even this craft type (HRD-80-2 concerns larger Navy vessels and shipyards). Full report PDF at gao.gov blocks direct automated fetch (HTTP 403 to curl, confirmed 2026-09-30); product-page highlights text retrieved via browser-rendered scrape.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-432-lcil432-05
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[6]Naval Marine Archive, 'New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber NJ' yard history and production list [other_primary]
- Locator
- navalmarinearchive.com New Jersey Shipbuilding page, yard-history paragraph and production-table row 'LCI(L) 432' (verified live via fetch, 2026-09-30)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The yard reference documents this hull's builder and production line: New Jersey Shipbuilding was an LCI assembly line on Arthur Kill in Barber (a community east of Perth Amboy, later absorbed into Perth Amboy), managed by Todd Shipyards from 1942 at the Navy's request and closed after the war; its production table lists hull 432 as a U.S. Navy landing craft delivered Jul-43 and sold 1946.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- Construction trades (Barber NJ, 1943)
- Limitations
- Secondary yard-history compilation, consistent with HAER AK-52's documentation of the same yard and hull range. Confirms builder and delivery window for this hull; contains no asbestos or condition information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-432-lcil432-06
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[7]Batch-5147 search ledger (this record): NavSource hull page; NARA Special List 44; NHHC/DANFS (candidate URL check); CourtListener API v4 opinion and RECAP docket searches; uboat.net warship record; shipbuildinghistory (Colton) production table; HAER AK-52/OR-180; USS LCI National Association site; Naval Marine Archive yard page; banned-source web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-432-lcil432-01 through sl-uss-lci-l-432-lcil432-11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum record, or docketed asbestos case naming LCI-432 / LCI(L)-432 was found in the sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener opinion searches for the hull designations returned zero hits, and the RECAP docket index returned a single name collision (Farmers Telecommunications Cooperative v. Verizon Business Network, M.D. Ala. 2006 - 'LCI' is a telecommunications carrier name in the filings, not the landing craft; not asbestos litigation). No individual DANFS entry exists for this numbered landing craft.
- 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 - as a 1943 combat-built landing craft the hull sits inside the documented Navy asbestos era. Does not establish that asbestos is or is not present, and does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. The vessel was sold in December 1946 with fate unknown, so no modern survey can exist unless the hull is identified.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-432-lcil432-07