Evidence
12 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-12).
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[1]research packet pq-packet.md (4 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS LCI(L)-519 — Wikipedia USN LCI list (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-519-lcil519-pkt-pq-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-519 - milestone timeline, campaign credits, awards ribbon bar, specifications, photo captions (history text credited to USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry', Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150519.htm header block, campaign table, awards ribbon bar, specifications block, and photo captions (live, HTTP 200, verified 2026-09-30)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down 14 November 1943 at New Jersey Shipbuilding Co., Barber, N.J.; launched 13 December 1943; commissioned USS LCI(L)-519, 17 December 1943 (international radio call sign NQYW). Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater: LCI Flotilla Five, then LCI Flotilla Twenty Two (1944-45) under CDR Paul McD. Smith USN (1944) and CDR Marion M. Byrd (1944-45). Campaign credits: Western New Guinea operations - Cape Sansapor operations 30 July 1944 and 4 August 1944; Morotai landings 15 September 1944; Luzon operation - Lingayen Gulf landings 4-18 January 1945; Consolidation of the southern Philippines - Mindanao Island landings 17-23 April 1945; earned three battle stars for World War II service. Ribbon bar: Combat Action Ribbon; China Service Medal (extended); American Campaign Medal; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (3); World War II Victory Medal; Navy Occupation Service Medal with Asia clasp; Philippine Presidential Citation; Philippine Liberation Medal (2). Postwar: Navy Occupation service 8-30 September 1945; China Service (extended) 30 September-20 December 1945, assigned to Commander Yangtze Patrol Force. Decommissioned date unknown; transferred to the Maritime Commission 3 December 1947; struck date unknown; final disposition unknown. Photo captions document USS LCI(L)-519 (with USS LCI(G)-957) landing 6th Division troops on the beach at Sansapor, New Guinea, 30 July 1944, and LCI(L)-519 beached with LCI(L)-1033 (date/location unknown). Spec block: displacement 236 t light / 264 t landing / 419 t loaded; length 158'5.5"; beam 23'3"; speed 16 kts max; complement 4 officers + 24 enlisted; troop capacity 6 officers + 182 enlisted; five single 20mm gun mounts; propulsion two sets of four General Motors diesels, four per shaft, single GM main reduction gears, twin variable-pitch propellers, 2,320 shp.
- 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); US Navy crew and embarked troops (1943-45)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - its milestone dates track official records (Turner/LCI association history) and its campaign credits reconcile exactly with the official NHHC awards-manual star codes (ev-03). Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-519-lcil519-01
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[3]NARA Special List 44, 'List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947' (Washington, DC, 1978), printed page 342 - LCI(L)-519 entry (verified via Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center page-image scan) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Special List 44, 'Ships with Symbol and Number Designations' section, printed p. 342, LCI(L)-519 row: 'Dec. 17, 1943-June 30, 1945', 3 logbooks (ACPL scan realpage 1708 / display 368)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Special List 44 lists LCI(L)-519 with a logbook date span of 'Dec. 17, 1943-June 30, 1945' and 3 logbooks - Navy deck logs covering commissioning day through 30 June 1945 are held at the National Archives. The listed span begins on the documented commissioning date (17 Dec 1943) and ends midway through the ship's postwar China-service period (occupation service began 8 Sep 1945; China service ran to 20 Dec 1945); logbooks covering July 1945 onward are absent from the SL44 listing.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1945 (logbook span); 1978 (SL44 publication)
- Population
- US Navy crew, Dec 1943-Jun 1945 (period covered by the listed logs)
- Limitations
- Log-coverage dates are the extents of logbooks held, not service dates - the listing does not state whether July 1945-disposal logs exist elsewhere, were lost, or were never delivered to NARA. Logbooks are a primary-source lead only: their contents (positions, casualties, availabilities) were not individually examined; they are not digitized online. Citation is the 1978 NARA publication; access route is the ACPL Genealogy Center page-image scan (image 368, printed book page 342). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-519-lcil519-02
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[4]Navy and Marine Corps Awards Manual, NAVPERS 15,790 (Rev. 1953), Part IV - Campaign and Service Medals, hosted by Naval History and Heritage Command - ship eligibility tables listing LCI(L)-519 / LCI 519 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Awards Manual Pt. 4, Asiatic-Pacific star-code legend (P28-6 Cape Sansapor; P28-8 Morotai; P32-2 Lingayen Gulf; P39-3 Mindanao) and the '(A) UNITED STATES SHIPS' LCI/LCI(L) listing rows; Occupation/China service ship table row 'LCI (L) 519'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official awards manual's consolidated '(A) UNITED STATES SHIPS' tables credit this hull with: Asiatic-Pacific campaign star codes P28-6 (Cape Sansapor operation) on 30 Jul 1944 and 4 Aug 1944; P28-8 (Morotai landings) on 15 Sep 1944; P32-2 (Lingayen Gulf landing) 4-18 Jan 1945; and P39-3 (Mindanao Island landings, under Consolidation of the Southern Philippines) 17-23 Apr 1945 - reconciling to three battle stars (the two P28 Western New Guinea suboperations share one star under the one-star-per-operation-group rule). The Navy Occupation Service Medal / China Service Medal table lists 'LCI (L) 519' with 8-30 Sep 1945 (Asia clasp) and 30 Sep - 20 Dec 1945 respectively - identical to NavSource's postwar windows.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945 (operations); 1953 (manual revision)
- Population
- US Navy crew and embarked troops at each operation window
- Limitations
- Official Navy award-eligibility documentation naming this hull - the strongest campaign-service source in this record; it establishes operation windows and star codes, not daily ship positions or conditions aboard. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-519-lcil519-03
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[5]USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association (usslci.org): 'LCI(L) 618 - History of LCI Flotilla 22' by Jim E. Talbert (Flotilla 22 staff communications supervisor; Ex-Chairman of the Board, USS LCI National Association) [museum_official]
- Locator
- usslci.org article text - flotilla roster paragraph, Morotai landing narrative (stranding), January 28 1945 guerrilla-supply/Osmeña-family evacuation paragraph, postwar assignment list (live, verified 2026-09-30)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- A first-person flotilla-staff account naming this hull at four points: ship No. 519 is in the Flotilla 22 roster (formed early Aug 1944 from old Flotilla 5, commanded by CDR McD. Smith, later CDR M.M. Byrd); at the Morotai invasion 'the 519 and 444 were stranded on the reefs and had to remain behind' with LCI(L)-357 detailed to assist (article dates the landing 16 September; the awards manual and NavSource give 15 September); on 28 January 1945 flotilla staff went aboard 519 'in convoy, up the coast, about 50 miles behind enemy lines' to supply guerrilla forces and evacuate President Osmeña's family - Mrs. Osmeña, five family members, nine servants, and two infants - back to Dagupan; and postwar the 433, 434, 435, 436, 518, 519, 445, 446, 776, 777, 1032 and 1033 'were assigned to Commander Yangtze Patrol Force.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- US Navy crew of LCI(L)-519, flotilla staff embarked 28 Jan 1945, and evacuated civilians (the Osmeña party); embarked troops at each landing
- Limitations
- Veterans-association first-person narrative - a secondary source authored by a flotilla staff member (not a crew member of this hull). The Morotai date given (16 Sep) conflicts by one day with the official awards manual (15 Sep); carried in gaps. The Osmeña evacuation detail rests on this source alone - the ship's own report of operations, if extant, is the open primary lead. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-519-lcil519-04
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[6]uboat.net Allied Warships of WWII, USS LCI(L)-519 entry (LCI 351 class) - build dates and Operation Globetrotter order of battle [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/21583.html data block and 'Notable events' Operation Globetrotter section, TU 77.2.5 LCI Unit list (live, verified 2026-09-30)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- uboat.net records this hull: built by New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp. (Barber NJ); ordered 22 March 1943; laid down 14 November 1943; launched 12 December 1943 - one day EARLIER than NavSource's 13 December 1943; commissioned 17 December 1943. Its order-of-battle transcription for Operation Globetrotter (30 July 1944 amphibious landings on Middelburg and Amsterdam Islands and around Cape Sansapor) lists 'USS LCI(L)-519 (?)' in Task Unit 77.2.5, the LCI Unit of Task Group 77.2 - the '(?)' marking her commanding officer as unrecorded.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1944
- Population
- US Navy crew and embarked troops (Operation Globetrotter, 30 Jul 1944)
- Limitations
- Specialist secondary database. The launched-date conflict (12 vs 13 December 1943) is unresolved against a primary source and carried in gaps; build-contract and commissioning dates match NavSource. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-519-lcil519-05
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[7]ShipbuildingHistory / Naval Marine Archive, 'New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber NJ' yard record - LCI assembly-line yard on Arthur Kill; hull list entry for LCI(L) 519 [other_primary]
- Locator
- navalmarinearchive.com/sbh/shipyards/emergencysmall/newjersey.html - yard description paragraph and hull-list row LCI(L) 519 (live, verified 2026-09-30)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Yard documentation for the builder: New Jersey Shipbuilding was an assembly line for LCIs on Arthur Kill in Barber (a community absorbed into Perth Amboy, now the Maurer section); management of the yard was taken over by Todd Shipyards in 1942 at the Navy's request and the yard closed after the war. Its hull list enters LCI(L) 519 as delivered Dec-43 with disposition 'Struck 1946' - a more specific date than NavSource's 'struck from the Naval Register, date unknown', and consistent in ordering with the 3 December 1947 Maritime Commission transfer.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1947
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades (1943)
- Limitations
- Secondary shipbuilding-history compilation (shipbuildinghistory.com dataset mirrored at navalmarinearchive.com). The 'Struck 1946' entry is unverified against a primary source (NVR does not cover this hull; no Naval Register page located) and is carried as a variant in gaps rather than asserted. Yard-history narrative is consistent across mirrors. No asbestos content; no yard exposure survey exists for this site.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-519-lcil519-06
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[8]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, 'Excerpts From the Log of USS LCI(L) 618' (LC(FF)-618, Flotilla 22 flagship) - log-excerpt transcript naming LCI(L)-519 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150618l.htm, log-excerpt transcript, entry '15 June ... transferred to LCI(L) 519 ... arrived from LCI(L) 519' (live, verified 2026-09-30)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The published log excerpts of flotilla flagship USS LC(FF)-618 record at Subic Bay: '15 June [1945] BM2c Andre Lazare transferred to LCI(L) 519, CM2c Walter Spruell arrived from LCI(L) 519' - a personnel exchange placing this hull alongside the flagship at Subic Bay in June 1945, within the deck-log window NARA holds (through 30 June 1945) and consistent with the flotilla's Subic base of operations in the postwar assignment narrative.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- US Navy crew (BM2c Andre Lazare, CM2c Walter Spruell named in the exchange)
- Limitations
- Volunteer-transcribed excerpts of a sister ship's log published on NavSource - a secondary rendering of primary material; names a crew member of this hull only in the transfer entry. The parenthetical 1945 year is inferred from the excerpt's surrounding Subic-Bay entries (the transcript page does not restate the year on each line). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-519-lcil519-07
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[9]Historic American Engineering Record HAER No. OR-180, LCI(L)-713, Amphibious Forces Memorial Museum, Portland OR (NPS, historian Justine Christianson, 2012) - LCI-351-class construction documentation [haer]
- Locator
- HAER OR-180 written data pages 1-3 (Principal Measurements, Description, Historical Information)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Federal documentation of LCI-351-class construction from the sole surviving original-configuration sister: designed by the Bureau of Ships; welded 1/4-inch steel plate for rapid wartime construction; two decks with troop compartments and crew space below; engine room containing four pairs of General Motors 6-71 diesel engines connected to two shafts with variable-pitch propellers; deckhouse with officers' accommodations, mess, wardroom, and galley; enclosed foredeck housing the ramps; well deck with the ramp winch; five single 20mm Oerlikon mounts; troop capacity 182 enlisted + six officers; approximately 1,051 ships of the type constructed in ten shipyards. Confirms the class is diesel-driven with no steam plant.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1945 (class construction era); 2012 (HAER documentation)
- Population
- Class-wide construction and crew populations (1943-1946)
- Limitations
- Class-level documentation for sister LCI(L)-713 (built later, post-June-1944 modified design with cylindrical pilothouse and centerline ramp; LCI(L)-519 is the earlier round-conn/two-side-ramp configuration). The HAER record describes structure and machinery; it contains no asbestos or insulation-material content and is not a materials survey of this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-519-lcil519-08
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[10]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) - product page verified via Wayback capture 2025-04-02 (live page returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2 highlights text (Wayback capture); live URL https://www.gao.gov/products/hrd-80-2 returns 403
- 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 removing asbestos, and compensation programs - documenting that the Navy used asbestos insulation aboard ships and managed damaged insulation by replacement with nonasbestos materials, spanning this hull's entire 1943 construction and 1943-45 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. Fieldwork yards were Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards - not this hull's builder. Live page blocked automated fetch (HTTP 403, confirmed 2026-09-30); product-page description verified via Wayback capture 20250402135701; full report text not retrieved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-519-lcil519-09
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[11]Era inference built on: NavSource spec block (eight GM diesels in two quad sets, no steam plant); HAER OR-180 class construction (welded 1/4-inch steel, machinery and space layout); GAO HRD-80-2 Navy asbestos era; absence of any hull-specific materials record (see ev-11) [other_primary]
- Locator
- ev-01 spec block; ev-08 HAER class construction; ev-09 GAO era documentation
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A welded-steel diesel landing craft built in 1943 inside the documented Navy asbestos era: plausible era-standard asbestos applications aboard a vessel of this type were diesel engine and exhaust lagging, gaskets, valve and flange packing, electrical insulation, deck coverings or cement in accommodation spaces, and winch brake linings. Because she carried no steam plant, the boiler/turbine lagging pathway that dominates steam-vessel exposure does not apply; the vessel's small enclosed engine room and troop compartments bounded the crew's contact with any lagging present.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1947
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades (1943); US Navy crew and embarked troops (1943-45); disposal parties (1947)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation schedule, material list, or work package located for LCI(L)-519, and the type's minimal auxiliary systems likely meant a smaller asbestos footprint than steam combatants. Names plausible era applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity, no manufacturer attribution, no present-day survival (hull transferred to the Maritime Commission 1947, fate unknown).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-519-lcil519-10
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[12]Batch-5240 search ledger (this record): NavSource ship page; NARA Special List 44 via ACPL scan; NHHC Navy-MC Awards Manual Rev. 1953 Pt. 4; USS LCI National Association Flotilla 22 history; uboat.net; NavSource LCI(L)-618 log excerpts; shipbuildinghistory yard record; HAER OR-180; GAO HRD-80-2 (blocked, Wayback); CourtListener API v4; NHHC DANFS; NVR; MARAD; NARA catalog; secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-519-lcil519-01 through -14
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or litigation naming LCI(L)-519 was found in the public sources searched. A secondary web sweep surfaced only law-firm marketing pages (excluded by source policy) and a name collision on USS Daley DD-519, a different hull. No DANFS entry exists for this numbered landing craft (all candidate NHHC URLs 404). NVR has no record (disposed 1947, pre-dating the database's coverage).
- 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 - it marks the search extent. The deck logs themselves (3 logbooks, Dec 1943-Jun 1945, NARA) are undigitized and unexamined; the MARAD vessel history card for the 1947 transfer was unreachable (marad.dot.gov 403); CourtListener exact-phrase queries were partially blocked by fleet pacing this session (see search_ledger) - litigation status is open, not negative. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-519-lcil519-11