Evidence
12 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-12).
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[1]research packet 463-packet.md (3 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-725-lcil725-pkt-463-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(G)-725 ex USS LCI(L)-725 page (history compiled from USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry', Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource archive page 10/15/150725 (ship entry, campaign table, unit listing, ribbons block, and specifications block)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity, construction, conversion, and wartime record for this hull: laid down 5 November 1943 at Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Ore.; launched 10 December 1943; commissioned USS LCI(L)-725 on 24 December 1943; reclassified Landing Craft Infantry (Guns) LCI(G)-725 on 15 June 1944. Credited campaigns (four battle stars): Marianas operation - capture and occupation of Saipan 15 Jun-28 Jul 1944; Tinian capture and occupation 24-28 Jul 1944; Western Caroline Islands operation - capture and occupation of southern Palau Islands 6 Sep-14 Oct 1944; Okinawa Gunto operation - assault and occupation 26 Mar-14 Jun 1945. Wartime organization: (1944) LCI Flotilla Six, LCI Group Sixteen, LCI Division Thirty-One; then LCI(G) Flotilla Three, LCI Group (listed as 'One'), LCI Division Fourteen. Awards listed: Combat Action Ribbon (15 June 1944, Saipan), Navy Unit Commendation (as LCI(G) Flotilla 3 member), American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (4), World War II Victory Medal. Decommissioned date unknown; struck from the Naval Register in 1946; transferred to the State Department 15 October 1947 for disposal; fate unknown.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1947
- Population
- Crew (LCI(L): 4 officers, 24 enlisted; LCI(G): 5 officers, 65 enlisted) and embarked troops as configured (up to 6 officers, 182 enlisted), 1943-1945
- Limitations
- NavSource is a compiled secondary reference (transcribing Turner Publishing's USS LCI volume and Navy records), not a contemporaneous log or action report. Campaign credits are official-list summaries; decommissioning date and striking month/day are not given. Its 'LCI Group One' listing conflicts with the contemporaneous NHHC fleet-organization document, which shows LCI Group 7 - NHHC version carried, variance flagged in gaps. Contains no asbestos information whatsoever.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-725-lcil725-01
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[3]Naval History and Heritage Command, United States Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945 (contemporaneous fleet organization listing) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Pacific Fleet Organization 1 May 1945, 'LCI FLOTILLA THREE' section: LCI GROUP 7, LCI DIVISION 14 (G), row 'LCI 725 (GF) - Lt. R. A. Gustafson (USNR)'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Navy's own fleet-organization list of 1 May 1945 places 'LCI 725 (GF)' - the (GF) suffix marking her as a group flagship - in LCI Division 14 (G) under LCI Group 7, LCI Flotilla Three (Commander LCI Flotilla Three: Comdr. M. J. Malanaphy / Comdr. R. Eikel, Jr., USNR; ComLCIGrp 7: Lt. Cdr. J. F. McFadden), with Lt. R. A. Gustafson, USNR, listed as her commanding officer.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-05-01
- Population
- Crew and LCI Group 7 command staff embarked, May 1945
- Limitations
- A point-in-time administrative listing (1 May 1945); it confirms unit assignment, flagship status, and commanding officer on that date, not before or after. No asbestos, material, or condition information. The document is a scanned/contemporaneous Navy record hosted by NHHC, not a DANFS narrative - no individual DANFS entry exists for this numbered craft (verified 2026-09-30, candidate URLs 404).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-725-lcil725-02
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[4]Naval History and Heritage Command, Navy-Marine Corps Awards Manual (rev. 1953), Part 2 - Unit Awards: Navy Unit Commendation entry for LCI(G) Flotilla 3 [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Awards Manual Part 2, Navy Unit Commendation table, row 'LCI (G) Flotilla 3 ... USS LCI (G) 725 ... 31 Jan - 28 Jul 44'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official Navy unit-awards manual lists 'LCI (G) Flotilla 3, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet' as a Navy Unit Commendation recipient for service 31 January - 28 July 1944 (Kwajalein and Eniwetok Atolls, Marshall Islands; Saipan, Guam and Tinian, Marianas), and enumerates 'USS LCI (G) 725' among the 39 component ships. This confirms the hull's Navy Unit Commendation as a member of Flotilla 3 within the citation period. Her individually credited campaigns (four battle stars per the campaign table) begin with Saipan, 15 June 1944 - the Marshalls phases of the flotilla citation period predate her credited combat record and her reclassification date.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-01-31 to 1944-07-28 (citation period)
- Population
- Crew, 1944
- Limitations
- Unit award, not an individual ship citation: the manual lists ships constituting the flotilla during the citation period; it does not place this hull at Kwajalein or Eniwetok, and the ship's own credited campaign list (NavSource) contains no Marshalls campaigns. No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-725-lcil725-03
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[5]Naval History and Heritage Command photo catalog, 80-G-253886 (U.S. National Archives image), 'Saipan Operation, June 1944' [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC photo catalog record 80-G-253886 (National Archives catalog number; caption block)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official photo caption: 'LCI(G)-725 and LCI(G)-726, fire on the beach while landing craft form up in the background, during the initial assault, 15 June 1944.' This contemporaneous Navy photograph places this hull delivering fire support in the Saipan initial assault on 15 June 1944 - the same date NavSource and uboat.net record as her effective reclassification from LCI(L)-725 to LCI(G)-725, and the date of her Combat Action Ribbon.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-06-15
- Population
- Crew under fire, 1944-06-15
- Limitations
- Photo caption documents presence and action on one date; it does not establish when the physical gunboat conversion was performed (field conversions of Flotilla 3 craft preceded the administrative reclassification date). No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-725-lcil725-04
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[6]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) [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, p.18, row 'LCI(L)(G)-725 | 12/24/1943 | 6/30/1945' (verified by pdftotext extraction of the live NARA PDF, 2026-09-30)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's Special List 44 inventory (by ship number, PDF p.18) lists Navy deck logs for 'LCI(L)(G)-725' covering 24 December 1943 through 30 June 1945 - log coverage beginning on her commissioning date and spanning her entire combat career (Saipan, Tinian, Peleliu, Okinawa) plus the first postwar months. These are the primary daily records of this hull's service, held in Record Group 24.
- 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. Logs after 30 June 1945 (through the 1946 striking) are outside this inventory listing. No asbestos or condition information is contained in the listing.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-725-lcil725-05
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[7]Amphibious Forces Memorial Museum (USS LCI 713 restoration project), Don Ulmer letters page - photo/caption record for D. Richard Ulmer, USN QM3, LCI-725 [other_primary]
- Locator
- amphibiousforces.org Don Ulmer letters page, caption 'D. Richard Ulmer, USN QM3 From LCI-725' (verified live 2026-09-30)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The Amphibious Forces Memorial Museum (operator of the USS LCI 713 restoration in Portland, Oregon) hosts letters/photographs identifying D. Richard Ulmer, USN, Quartermaster Third Class, as a crew member of LCI-725 - a named crew record for this hull and a lead to first-person wartime correspondence. The museum's usslci.org-networked newsletter indexes additional LCI-725 veterans.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1945
- Population
- Individual crew member (Ulmer), 1940s
- Limitations
- Private museum/association archival material, not an official record; contents of the letters were not reviewed for this record beyond the crew-member identification. No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-725-lcil725-06
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[8]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, 'LCIs in World War II' section (pp. 8-10) and principal-dimensions/propulsion block (p. 1); NavSource specifications block for this hull's engine fit; usslci.org LCI(G) conversion description for the gunboat refit
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- LCI(L)s were diesel-powered landing craft of a utilitarian wartime Bureau of Ships design (designed May 1942; over 900 built by ten yards; ~158 ft, twin-screw). This hull is an LCI(L)-351-class craft whose propulsion was two sets of four General Motors diesel engines, four per shaft (NavSource specification block, BHP 1,600) - an all-diesel plant 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
- 1943-1947
- Population
- Construction trades (Portland OR, 1943); wartime crew in confined engine-room and accommodation spaces
- Limitations
- Class/design inference only - HAER AK-52 documents a sister 351-class craft (LCI(L) 653) and the LCI(L) design generally; it does not name this hull and does not itself assert asbestos content. 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 1947).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-725-lcil725-07
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[9]Owens-Illinois, Inc. supplemental answers to second interrogatories, Heathman v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. et al., No. 87-C-1934 (Dist. Ct. Brazoria County, Tex.) - defendant's inventory of shipyard industrial-health documents (mirrored via ToxicDocs document archive) [other_primary]
- Locator
- ToxicDocs document 4ayjMMY2q6pqomB4eDk5Nq9op, interrogatory A.9 document list, item 22
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A defendant's interrogatory answer filed in asbestos litigation inventories wartime government industrial-health documents including: 'Industrial Health and Safety Re-Survey Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon at 13 (March 16-19, 1945)' - establishing that a U.S. government industrial-health re-survey of the yard that built this hull was conducted in March 1945 and was used in litigation (Dube v. Eagle-Picher, D. Me. 83-0224) concerning Navy/shipyard knowledge of asbestos hazards in shipbuilding. The Commercial Iron Works survey itself is the retrievable primary record behind this reference.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945 (survey); 1990 (filing)
- Population
- Commercial Iron Works yard workforce, March 1945 survey period
- Limitations
- The cited item is a defendant's litigation exhibit list, not the survey - it attests that a March 1945 industrial-health re-survey of Commercial Iron Works exists in the documentary record, not what it found. Discovery-stage material filed by a defendant; classified as an archival lead, not a finding about conditions at the yard or aboard this hull. No hull is named.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-725-lcil725-08
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[10]Oregon Public Broadcasting, 'Portland's Toxic Graveyard For World War II Ships' (Cassandra Profita, 1 Dec 2016; Battle Ready series) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- OPB article text (Zidell/Commercial Iron Works lease, asbestos-contaminant passages, 1986 DEQ flagging, 1994 voluntary cleanup, cost figures)
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- OPB documents that after the war, Zidell leased a portion of the former Commercial Iron Works shipyard - the yard that built this hull - for what became the nation's largest shipbreaking operation; ship insulation, wiring, and other materials stripped there contained asbestos and PCBs; Oregon DEQ flagged the property as potentially hazardous in 1986; the company entered a voluntary cleanup in 1994 covering 30 acres and a half-mile of Willamette riverbank, a 20-plus-year, $20-million-plus remediation (DEQ ECSI site no. 689).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1946-2016
- Population
- Shipbreaking and remediation workforce, 1946-2010s
- Limitations
- Site-level environmental history of the builder yard's postwar reuse as a shipbreaking scrapyard - it does not document conditions during this hull's 1943 construction, does not name this hull, and concerns scrapping of many different vessels. Reputable journalism citing state records; the underlying DEQ ECSI page (legacy URL) now redirects to the DEQ welcome page and was not directly retrievable this session.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-725-lcil725-09
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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, Highlights text
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO reviewed the Navy's efforts to protect workers from asbestos exposure at Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards, covering use of asbestos in Navy ships, removal costs, and disability compensation; it records the Navy's 1975 policy of removing/replacing asbestos insulation only when damaged or required for repairs, modified in 1979 to selective replacement in high-maintenance areas - Navy-wide confirmation that asbestos insulation was standard aboard Navy ships of this 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 or this craft type (HRD-80-2 fieldwork concerned large Navy shipyards, and the report does not discuss landing craft). Product page retrieved via Firecrawl 2026-09-30 (gao.gov blocks direct automated fetch, HTTP 403); full 26-page PDF not reviewed for this record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-725-lcil725-10
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[12]Batch-5450 search ledger (this record): NavSource hull and NUC pages; NARA Special List 44; NHHC fleet-organization and awards-manual documents; NHHC photo catalog; NHHC/DANFS index and candidate URLs; uboat.net warship record; Colton production table; usslci.org; Amphibious Forces Memorial Museum; LOC Veterans History Project; CourtListener API v4 (partially blocked by fleet pacing); banned-source web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-725-lcil725-01 through sl-uss-lci-l-725-lcil725-15
- 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-725 / LCI(L)-725 / LCI(G)-725 was found in the sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener opinion searches for 'LCI(L)-725', 'LCI-725', 'LCI(G)-725', 'LCI 725' + asbestos, and 'LCI' + asbestos landing craft each returned zero results; the RECAP docket-index query was attempted repeatedly over ~45 minutes but the fleet-wide authenticated budget was exhausted - it is logged as blocked in the ledger, not treated as a negative result. A live-web sweep for asbestos/mesothelioma claims naming this hull returned no results. 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. Opinion coverage is verified-nil; only the RECAP docket-index query went unexecuted this session due to shared-quota pacing, so pleading-stage cases or name collisions are not ruled out. The vessel was transferred to the State Department in 1947 with fate unknown, so no modern survey can exist unless the hull is identified.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-725-lcil725-11