Evidence
13 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-13).
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[1]research packet pg-packet.md (5 sources cited) [museum_official]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-450-lcil450-pkt-pg-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(G)-450 ex-USS LCI(L)-450 page (history compiled from USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry', Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource archive page 10/15/150450 (ship entry, campaign table, awards block, and specifications block) - verified live via scrape 2026-09-30 (direct curl returns HTTP 406 bot-check)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity, construction, and wartime record for this hull: laid down 22 June 1943 at New Jersey Ship Building Corp., Barber, N.J.; launched 18 August 1943; commissioned USS LCI(L)-450 on 26 August 1943; reclassified Landing Craft Infantry (Gunboat) LCI(G)-450 on 15 June 1944; assigned Asiatic-Pacific Theater, LCI Flotilla Three (CDR R. Eikel Jr.), Group Eight (LCDR W. V. Nash). Credited campaigns: Marshall Islands operation - occupation of Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls, 31 Jan-8 Feb 1944; Marianas operation - capture and occupation of Guam, 21 Jul-15 Aug 1944; Iwo Jima operation - assault and occupation, 17-19 Feb 1945. Occupation duty in the Far East 2-22 September 1945. Decommissioned date unknown; struck from the Naval Register in 1946; transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal 30 January 1948; fate unknown. Three battle stars plus Presidential Unit Citation (Iwo Jima, 17 Feb 1945) and Navy Unit Commendation (LCI(G) Flotilla 3, 31 Jan-28 Jul 1944); additional ribbons listed: Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, Iwo Jima), American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (3), World War II Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Service Medal (Asia clasp). Photographic record: two US Navy photographs - LCI(G)-450 off Iwo Jima 17 Feb 1945, and moored pierside at Saipan February 1945 awaiting repair of Iwo Jima battle damage. Specifications: 216 t light / 234 t landing / 389 t loaded; 158'5.5" x 23'3"; 16 kts max; LCI(L) complement 3 officers/21 enlisted, LCI(G) 5 officers/65 enlisted; LCI(L) armament four single 20mm + two .50cal; LCI(G) armament two 40mm + four 20mm + six .50cal + ten Mk7 rocket launchers; propulsion two sets of 4 General Motors diesels, 4 per shaft, 1,600 BHP, twin variable-pitch propellers.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1948
- Population
- Crew (3-5 officers, 21-65 enlisted depending on configuration) and embarked troops, 1943-1945
- 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 and dates are official-list summaries; decommissioning date is not given. Contains no asbestos information whatsoever.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-450-lcil450-01
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[3]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), p.17 [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, p.17, row 'LCI(L)(G)-450 | 8/26/1943 | 5/31/1945' (verified by pdftotext -layout 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 17) lists Navy deck logs for LCI(L)(G)-450 covering 26 August 1943 through 31 May 1945 - in-scope wartime service documentation held in Record Group 24 (Bureau of Naval Personnel logs), retrievable for this hull. These are log-coverage dates, not commissioning or decommissioning dates: coverage begins on the 26 August 1943 commissioning date and ends while the vessel remained in service (occupation duty ran 2-22 September 1945; struck 1946).
- 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; post-May-1945 logs (covering the occupation period and decommissioning) are outside this inventory listing. No asbestos or condition information is contained in the listing.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-450-lcil450-02
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[4]NHHC online reading room, 'Battle for Iwo Jima' - US Navy ships sunk or badly damaged by enemy action table [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Battle for Iwo Jima page, 'US Navy Ships Sunk or Badly Damaged By Enemy Action' table, 17 Feb rows
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC's Iwo Jima operation history lists LCI(G)-450 among US Navy ships damaged by enemy action on 17 February 1945 - cause 'Coastal battery', 0 killed, 6 wounded - during the pre-invasion underwater demolition team beach reconnaissance covered by the LCI(G) Group Eight gunboats.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-02-17
- Population
- Crew aboard at Iwo Jima, 17 Feb 1945 (LCI(G) complement ~5 officers/65 enlisted)
- Limitations
- Casualty table records the day-of losses; a crew memoir records that S2/c Jack H. Musselman died of his wounds days later, which a same-day table does not capture (see gaps). Battle-damage documentation is a vessel-history fact; contains no asbestos or material condition information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-450-lcil450-03
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[5]NHHC online reading room, United States Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945 (Navy Department Library transcription) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Pacific Fleet Organization 1 May 1945, LCI Group 8 / LCI Division 15 (G) section
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official 1 May 1945 Pacific Fleet organization document lists 'LCI 450' under LCI Group 8 (ComLCIGrp 8: Lt. Cdr. W. V. Nash, USNR), LCI Division 15 (G), with Ens. W. A. Brady (USNR) shown as commanding officer - independently confirming this hull's Group 8 assignment and Brady's wartime command.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-05-01
- Population
- Crew aboard, May 1945
- Limitations
- Organization listing is a point-in-time snapshot; Brady is styled 'Ens.' in this 1 May 1945 document while his Navy Cross citation (action of 17 Feb 1945, award serial 6 May 1945) styles him Lieutenant (j.g.) - a rank-timing nuance, not a conflict in hull identity. Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-450-lcil450-04
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[6]NavSource reproduction of the Presidential Unit Citation award text to LCI(G) Group Eight including the flagship of LCI Flotilla Three (signed James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource award-text page 10/15/15000030 (PUC citation text and Group Eight member list)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Presidential Unit Citation to LCI(G) Group Eight covers 'extraordinary heroism during action in support of beach reconnaissance by Underwater Demolition Teams at enemy Japanese-held Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, on February 17, 1945' - the page lists the group's constituent gunboats including LCI(G)-450. An NHHC H-gram on the action corroborates that the Group 8 LCI gunboats received the PUC for this action (LCI(G)-449's history summary in H-086-2 likewise lists a Presidential Unit Citation).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-02-17
- Population
- Group Eight crews, 17 Feb 1945
- Limitations
- NavSource reproduces the official citation text and lists member hulls; the underlying award document was not independently retrieved from a primary repository this session. Unit award does not describe material conditions aboard the hull - no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-450-lcil450-05
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[7]NavSource reproduction of the Navy Unit Commendation award text to LCI(G) Flotilla Three, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet (signed James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource award-text page 10/15/15000031 (NUC citation text and Flotilla Three ship list)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Navy Unit Commendation to LCI(G) Flotilla Three covers 'outstanding heroism in action in support of amphibious landings on enemy Japanese-held Kwajalein and Eniwetok Atolls in the Marshall Islands, and on Saipan, Guam and Tinian in the Marianas, from January 31 to July 28, 1944'; the enumerated ship list includes '450' among the flotilla's LCI(G)s.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- Flotilla Three crews, Jan-Jul 1944
- Limitations
- NavSource reproduces the official commendation text and ship list; the underlying award document was not independently retrieved from a primary repository this session. The listed period (through 28 Jul 1944) overlaps this hull's conversion-to-gunboat window (reclassified 15 Jun 1944). No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-450-lcil450-06
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[8]Hall of Valor (Military Times), Wallace Anthony Brady Navy Cross citation - Commander Amphibious Forces Pacific Serial 00409 (6 May 1945) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- Hall of Valor recipient page 19833, Navy Cross citation text
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The reproduced Navy Cross citation documents LTjg Wallace A. Brady, USNR, as commanding officer of LCI(G)-450 'operating as a unit of LCI(G), Group EIGHT' during close-in fire support at Iwo Jima on 17 February 1945: he closed range to under 1,000 yards despite several large-caliber hits that started a serious fire, exploded ready ammunition, and wounded several crew; he fired a full rocket salvo and maintained bombardment until recurring fires and explosions forced withdrawal.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- Crew aboard at Iwo Jima, 17 Feb 1945
- Limitations
- Hall of Valor is a reputable secondary database reproducing the official award citation; the underlying award file was not independently retrieved. Citation describes combat action, not material conditions - no asbestos information. Rank style (LTjg) reflects the award serial date (6 May 1945).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-450-lcil450-07
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[9]USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association, 'LCI (G) 450 Saga' - firsthand ship history by Ensign R. C. Haines (crew member) [other_primary]
- Locator
- usslci.org 'LCI (G) 450 Saga' page (verified live via fetch 2026-09-30); companion memoir and photo pages under usslci.org/category/lcig/lci-450/
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- A crew memoir published by the national LCI veterans association documents ship-level history not in the official-list summaries: commissioning crew arrived at Barber NJ while the hull was still on the ways; first CO Lt.(jg) Thomas Kennedy Jr. USNR (engineering officer Lt.(jg) Robert V. Main USNR); transit Little Creek-Panama Canal-San Diego with engine casualties; partial gunboat conversion at San Diego; grounded on a coral reef off Kwajalein on 31 January 1944 while passing lines to Marines from capsized amphibious tanks (48 of 54 brought aboard), pulled off by USS Chickasaw on 2 February and towed to Pearl Harbor; final conversion to LCI(G) at Guadalcanal (ramps removed, 42 rocket launchers fitted, two more 40mm); convoy action en route to Saipan 15 June 1944; Guam landing 21 July 1944; Brady assumed command 9 November 1944; detailed account of the 17 February 1945 hits, fires, flooded magazine, and damage-control work (Bronze Stars to Ens. Charles King, SM2c Thomas Elmore, Cox. John Manual, CBM Allen Johnson, F1c Neil Pinkston; letters of commendation Nelson, Diekow, Tripp; Purple Hearts to Coggins and Musselman - Musselman died of wounds days later); temporary repairs at Saipan; Leyte; Pearl Harbor overhaul; Lt.(jg) H. Pillsbury Martin assumed command 17 June 1945; shore-patrol headquarters duty in Tokyo Bay; engine overhaul at Eniwetok; Ens. Walter M. Davis in command by 21 December 1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- Named crew members (Kennedy, Main, Brady, King, Davis, Martin, Hirschey; enlisted crew named in award notes)
- Limitations
- Firsthand memoir compiled after the war by a crew member and published by the USS LCI National Association - a primary participant account but not an official Navy record; dates and names are as the memoirist recorded them and are not independently verified against deck logs. The memoir records one man dying of wounds days after Iwo Jima while the NHHC same-day table records 0 killed (see gaps). No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-450-lcil450-08
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[10]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 [haer]
- Locator
- HAER AK-52 written history: design context pp. 3-6 (incl. n.7 New Jersey Shipbuilding build ranges), construction details (welded steel, plastic splinter armor, GM Series 71 plant); verified by pdftotext of the live LOC PDF, 2026-09-30
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- HAER AK-52 documents the LCI(L) type as a welded-steel, all-diesel wartime Bureau of Ships design (designed May 1942; over 900 built; the LCI(L) 351 redesign of May 1943 - this hull's design group - carried the deckhouse the full width of the hull with enlarged accommodations and a cylindrical pilot house). The class plant was eight six-cylinder General Motors Series 71 diesel engines, four per shaft, with variable-pitch propellers - no boilers or steam system. HAER also records that New Jersey Shipbuilding built LCIs 239-318, 423-657, 782-821, and 866-884 - a range that includes hull 450. With no steam plant aboard, the asbestos-relevant applications 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. The documented splinter protection (2-inch plastic armor of crushed granite in bitumen on gun tubs, conning tower, and pilot house) is not an asbestos material.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1945 (design/build era)
- Population
- Construction trades (Barber NJ yard, 1943); wartime crew in confined engine-room and accommodation spaces
- Limitations
- Class/design documentation, not a hull record - HAER AK-52 documents sister craft LCI(L) 653 (same class, same builder) and the LCI(L) design generally; it does not name this hull and does not itself assert asbestos content. Asbestos presence aboard this hull is era- and design-level inference, not ship-proven. Does not establish quantity, products installed, or present-day presence (hull fate unknown since 1948).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-450-lcil450-09
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[11]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 construction (1943) and entire 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 text not retrieved - gao.gov blocks automated fetch (HTTP 403, confirmed 2026-09-30); content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-450-lcil450-10
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[12]Naval Marine Archive mirror of Colton's Shipbuilding History: New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber NJ yard table and LCI(L) production list [other_primary]
- Locator
- Naval Marine Archive mirror page - yard intro text and production table rows '450 | US Navy | Landing Craft | Aug-43 | Struck 1946' and 'LCI(L) | G | 450 | New Jersey SB | Barber NJ | 26-Aug-43 | To NDRF 1947'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The compiled yard production table records LCI(L) hull 450 built by New Jersey Shipbuilding at Barber NJ for the US Navy, delivered/commissioned August 1943 (26-Aug-43), struck 1946, and carried 'To NDRF 1947' for disposition. The yard description records New Jersey Shipbuilding as a purpose-built assembly line for LCIs on Arthur Kill at Barber (a community east of Perth Amboy later absorbed and renamed Maurer), its management taken over by Todd Shipyards in 1942 at the Navy's request, and the yard closed after the war.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1948
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding yard workforce, 1942-1944
- Limitations
- Colton's is a reputable privately compiled production table, secondary rather than primary; the 'To NDRF 1947' disposition line sits alongside NavSource's 'transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal 30 January 1948' - consistent sequence (reserve-fleet custody then disposal) but the exact custody chain is not resolved to a primary document. No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-450-lcil450-11
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[13]Batch-5167 search ledger (this record): NavSource hull page; NARA Special List 44 by-ship-number PDF; NHHC/DANFS index and candidate URLs; NHHC Iwo Jima reading room, Pacific Fleet organization 1 May 1945, and H-gram H-086-2; NavSource PUC/NUC award-text pages; NavalCoverMuseum; Hall of Valor; usslci.org veteran-memoir pages; shipbuildinghistory (Colton) production table via Naval Marine Archive mirror; HAER AK-52; CourtListener API v4 opinion and RECAP docket searches; web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-450-lcil450-01 through sl-uss-lci-l-450-lcil450-12
- 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(L)-450 / LCI(G)-450 was found in the sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener opinion searches for '"LCI-450" OR "LCI(L)-450" OR "LCI(G)-450" OR "LCI 450"' and for '"LCI" asbestos "landing craft"' each returned zero results; the RECAP docket search for the hull designations returned zero results. A web sweep surfaced no asbestos claim naming this hull at all. 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 Navy 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 transferred for disposal in 1948 with fate unknown, so no modern survey can exist unless the hull is identified.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-450-lcil450-12