Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet 444-packet.md (4 sources cited) [museum_official]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS LCI(L)-596 · Hull: LCI(L)-596 · Designation: Landing Craft, Infantry (Large)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-596-lcil596-pkt-444-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(M)-596 ex USS LCI(L)-596 page (history sourced to USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry,' Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource USS LCI(M)-596 ex USS LCI(L)-596 page, chronology and specifications blocks
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Hull chronology for this vessel: laid down 22 March 1944 at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, N.J.; launched 18 April 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-596 on 22 April 1944; assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater and participated in the invasion of southern France, 15 August-18 September 1944; reclassified Landing Craft Infantry (Mortar) LCI(M)-596 on 5 May 1945; reassigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater under LCI Flotilla Twenty-One / LCI Group Sixty-Two / LCI Division One Hundred Twenty-Three; occupation service in the Far East 19 November 1945 - 2 April 1946; decommissioned date unknown; struck from the Naval Register in 1951; sold 1 May 1951; final disposition 'fate unknown'; earned one battle star for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946 (U.S. service); 1951 strike/sale
- Population
- U.S. Navy crew (4 officers/24 enlisted as LCI(L), 4/49 as LCI(M) per class spec) and embarked troops (up to ~188) in the LCI(L) configuration
- Limitations
- Volunteer-compiled secondary source (its stated source is Turner Publishing's USS LCI Vol. II), not an official Navy record - used here because unnamed landing craft have no DANFS entries. uboat.net independently corroborates the 5 May 1945 reclassification and 1 May 1951 sale.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-596-lcil596-01
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[3]Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945 (HyperWar/ibiblio mirror of the official U.S. Navy compilation), Landing Ships and Craft - LCI(L)-351 Class section [other_primary]
- Locator
- ships-lc.html, 'LCI(L)-351 Class' table rows 'LCI(L)-594-599' and 'LCI(M)-594-596'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official-compilation mirror lists LCI(L)-594-599 as 1942-44-built vessels with no loss or Lend-Lease note, and separately lists 'LCI(M)-594-596' among 1945 LCI(M) conversions - corroborating this hull's existence, class assignment, and mortar-variant reclassification.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1940-1945
- Limitations
- Names the hull only inside number ranges (LCI(L)-594-599; LCI(M)-594-596) with no dates per hull; class specifications on the page (complement 4 officers/25 enlisted; displacement 385 t full load; 1,600 BHP) are class-level and differ from NavSource's per-type specifications - neither figure is ship-proven.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-596-lcil596-02
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[4]NARA Special List 44, List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units (ship-number list), PDF page 19 [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, PDF p. 19: 'LCI(L)(M)-596 4/22/1944 12/31/1945'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA lists Navy deck-log holdings for this hull under the combined designation 'LCI(L)(M)-596' covering 4/22/1944-12/31/1945 - the full U.S. commission period, corroborating the 22 April 1944 commissioning and extending through the first weeks of the occupation-duty period.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- U.S. Navy crew of LCI(L)-596 / LCI(M)-596
- Limitations
- These are log-coverage dates for paper holdings, not ship-event dates; the logs are physical RG 24 records and no digitized copy was located in the NARA Catalog. Coverage ending 12/31/1945 does not mark decommissioning - occupation service ran to 4/2/1946 per NavSource and the decommissioning date is unrecorded.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-596-lcil596-03
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[5]National Archives Catalog, 'LCI(L) 596 - Muster Rolls' (NAID 120241519), RG 24 Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel - 63 digitized images, first roll dated 22 April 1944 [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov/id/120241519
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Digitized muster rolls for this hull survive in the National Archives Catalog (63 images; the first roll is dated 22 April 1944 - the commissioning date, corroborating NavSource and SL44).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- U.S. Navy crew of LCI(L)-596 / LCI(M)-596
- Limitations
- Personnel records, not asbestos or medical documentation - they establish crew assignments and movements only. Individual roll images beyond the first were not read; the ship-specific complement and crew names live here but were not extracted.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-596-lcil596-04
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[6]National Archives Catalog, RG 38 WWII War Diaries series - digitized monthly war diaries for this hull plus its after-action report for the invasion of southern France [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov/id/139739758; /id/78490504; /id/78544335; /id/78622592; /id/633384981; /id/139769972; /id/139805937; /id/139825041; unit-level NAIDs 139970429, 139774370, 139898182
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Hull-specific digitized operational records exist: 'LCI(L)-596 - Report of Operations in the Invasion of Southern France, 8/8-18/44' (NAID 139739758) and monthly war diaries for June (NAID 78490504), July (78544335), August (78622592), September (633384981), November (139769972), and December 1944 (139805937, 139825041). The hull's catalog search also surfaced unit-level records (COMTASK-UNIT 84.3.3 and COMTASK-GROUP 84.3 southern-France reports; NOB Key West war diary, 2/1945) whose naming of this hull is via indexed page text and unverified.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- U.S. Navy crew of LCI(L)-596
- Limitations
- Operational records, not asbestos or medical documentation. The digitized diaries/report were located and their catalog entries verified but the image contents were not individually read - duty-level detail (yards visited, availability periods) may exist inside. Unit-level records are leads only; the hull's attachment to Task Unit 84.3.3 / Group 84.3 is consistent with the southern-France operation but not confirmed from available sources.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-596-lcil596-05
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[7]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 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 construction (1944), LCI(M) conversion (1945), and entire U.S. 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) - content via product-page description, same limitation as prior batches. A diesel landing craft carried far less insulation than steam-driven ships.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-596-lcil596-06
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[8]War Production Board, War Industrial Facilities Authorized July 1940-August 1945 (GovInfo) [other_primary]
- Locator
- GOVPUB-P32_4800-1226d01b08d0c7bf2f8de2cbd75b80cc.htm, alphabetic facility list, 'NEW JERSEY SHIPBUILDING CO PERTH AMBOY N J'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The WPB authorization list records 'New Jersey Shipbuilding Co., Perth Amboy, N.J.' as an authorized war industrial facility - corroborating the identity and wartime operation of this hull's builder (Barber is the Perth Amboy waterfront neighborhood where the yard stood).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1940-1945
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction workforce
- Limitations
- Documents the yard's existence and wartime authorization only - it names no vessel and contains no materials or asbestos data. Yard-level context, not a hull record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-596-lcil596-07
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[9]Batch-5317 search ledger (this record): NavSource; HyperWar USN compilation; NARA Special List 44 + NARA Catalog; WPB facilities list (GovInfo); CourtListener API v4 (opinion and docket indexes); NVR; secondary web sweeps [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-596-lcil596-01 through -13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or litigation naming LCI(L)-596 / LCI(M)-596 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener opinion searches on all three designation forms ('LCI(L)-596', 'LCI(M)-596', 'LCI-596') returned zero results each.
- 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. CourtListener coverage is index-level token search - the docket-index query was refused by the fleet pacing limiter this session - so a non-indexed or differently styled reference to the hull cannot be fully excluded. NARA deck logs (SL44 holdings 4/22/1944-12/31/1945) are undigitized and unread and could contain duty-level detail; the digitized war diaries and muster rolls were located but their page contents were not read. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-596-lcil596-08