Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]research packet 468-packet.md (1 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-756-lcil756-pkt-468-packet-md
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[2]U.S. Navy, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, landing craft infantry (mortar) table, scanned mirror [other_primary]
- Locator
- Printed page 214, LCI(M)756 row
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Navy's ships-data table lists this hull in the LCI(M) section as LCI(M)756 (ex-LCI(L)756, ex-LCI(G)756): built by Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon; keel laid 5 April 1944; launched 28 April 1944; first commissioned 11 May 1944.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944
- Limitations
- The original Navy table establishes construction and first-commission data only. It does not state asbestos content, crew complement, decommissioning, striking, or disposition. The publication indexes this hull under its final designation: no LCI(L)756 row appears in the LCI(L) hull table (printed pages 202-212), which omits hulls 754-757 from the Commercial Iron Works block. The PDF is a live scanned mirror of a Navy publication, not a Navy-hosted page.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-756-lcil756-01
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[3]U.S. Navy, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, landing craft infantry (large) design-group table, scanned mirror [other_primary]
- Locator
- Printed page 200, LCI(L)351-1098 row
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Navy's LCI(L)-351 through LCI(L)-1098 design-group table specifies 2 propellers, G.M. Diesel 6051 series 71 engines, and 2,320 shaft horsepower, with accommodations for 8 officers and 32 enlisted.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- Second World War design group
- Limitations
- This is a design-group specification, not an individual machinery inventory for LCI(L)-756. Diesel propulsion does not establish that asbestos was installed or that anyone was exposed. The accommodations figure describes the group, not this hull's wartime complement.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-756-lcil756-02
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[4]U.S. Navy, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, landing craft infantry (mortar) design-group table, scanned mirror [other_primary]
- Locator
- Printed page 213, LCI(M) design-group row
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Navy's LCI(M) design-group table specifies a 159-foot craft with accommodations for 4 officers and 49 enlisted, armament of three 4.2-inch chemical mortars and one single 40mm antiaircraft mount, two propellers and G.M. Diesel 6051 series 71 engines, and prints a shaft-horsepower figure of 1,320.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- Second World War design group
- Limitations
- Design-group specification for the mortar conversion, not an individual machinery inventory for this hull. The printed 1,320 shaft horsepower conflicts with the 2,320 figure in the LCI(L) group table of the same publication; whether it is a misprint or reflects the converted configuration is unresolved (see gaps).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-756-lcil756-03
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[5]National Archives, Special List #44, by Ship Numbers [other_primary]
- Locator
- LCI(L)(M)-756 row, alphabetical LCI section
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA Special List #44 indexes LCI(L)(M)-756 deck-log coverage from 1 July 1944 through 30 June 1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-07-01 to 1945-06-30 (indexed log coverage)
- Limitations
- These are index coverage endpoints, not commissioning, decommissioning, or other service dates. The index does not disclose log contents or asbestos materials; the underlying logs require separate examination. The 1 July 1944 start postdates the 11 May 1944 commissioning - coverage is not necessarily complete from commissioning.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-756-lcil756-04
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[6]Naval History and Heritage Command, United States Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945 (online transcription) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- LCI Flotilla Twenty-One, LCI Group 61, LCI Division 121 (M) listing
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The NHHC publication 'United States Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945' lists LCI 756 under LCI Flotilla Twenty-One, LCI Group 61, LCI Division 121 (M), commanded by Lt. (jg) M. C. Wunsch (USNR) - corroborating the mortar conversion in effect on 1 May 1945 and the commanding officer named by NavSource.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-05-01
- Limitations
- An organizational listing at a single date. It corroborates unit assignment and commanding officer on 1 May 1945; it does not document the earlier LCI(G) conversion date, materials aboard, asbestos content, or any exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-756-lcil756-05
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[7]National Archives catalog record, NAID 205586468 (Local ID 26-G-4423), Record Group 26 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Catalog record title and original caption
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The National Archives catalog records U.S. Coast Guard photograph 26-G-4423 (Identifier 205586468), 'L-Day Plus One Off Okinawa,' showing the American task force anchorage off Okinawa on 2 April 1945 with a Coast Guard-manned LST in the foreground. The NavSource vessel page publishes this photograph with a caption identifying USS LCI(G)-756 underway in the transport area, taken from USS LST-789.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-04-02
- Limitations
- The NARA original caption does not name LCI(G)-756 - the identification of this hull in the photograph comes from the NavSource caption, which also supplies the LST-789 vantage. The cataloged record verifies the photograph, not the hull identification. It documents nothing about materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-756-lcil756-06
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[8]NavSource Online, Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(M)-756 / USS LCI(G)-756 / USS LCI(L)-756 (live vessel page) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Vessel chronology, campaign table, awards display, and photo captions; page last updated 27 October 2023
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource identifies the vessel as an LCI-351-class landing craft, USS LCI(M)-756 ex-USS LCI(G)-756 ex-USS LCI(L)-756; records reclassification to LCI(G)-756 on 31 December 1944 and to LCI(M)-756 on 30 April 1945; lists Asiatic-Pacific campaigns (Manila Bay-Bicol operations, Nasugbu, 31 January to 2 February 1945; Iwo Jima operation, 19 to 26 February 1945; Okinawa Gunto operation, 26 March to 14 June 1945); credits three battle stars for World War II service as LCI(G)/LCI(M); lists Navy Occupation Service (Asia clasp) duty 11 December 1945 to 11 February 1946 and 12 February to 24 March 1946, the latter period also credited as China Service Medal (extended) duty; records decommissioning in July 1946 at San Diego, California; striking from the Naval Register in 1946; and final disposition as sold 18 November 1946, fate unknown. Captioned photographs on the page show LCI(G)-756 firing a 4.2-inch mortar during the Iwo Jima bombardment (February 1945), LCI(G)-756 unloading Japanese prisoners at Naha City, Okinawa (June 1945), LCI(M)-756 in the Yangtze River at Shanghai (1946), and LCI(M)-756 nested with other landing craft at San Diego (summer 1946); a frame from the Navy training film 'The LCI (L) Description and Employment' (National Archives Identifier 13007, Local ID 80-MN-4308A) shows LCI(L)-756 underway off Coronado Island.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Limitations
- NavSource is an archival compilation, and its page credits a 1995 Turner Publishing LCI history for the narrative. Campaign-credit windows are not a continuous itinerary; the awards display, reclassification dates, decommissioning, striking, and sale dates rest on NavSource alone in this record, and the class specification block is not used to verify this hull's complement or installed materials.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-756-lcil756-07
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[9]U.S. Bureau of Ships, An Administrative History of the Bureau of Ships During World War II, volume IV, chapter XX, wartime Chemistry Sub-section (live transcription mirror) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Chapter XX, printed page 156, Asbestos-Glass Insulation Lagging Cloth paragraph
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- The Bureau of Ships wartime administrative history describes standard asbestos cloth and the development of a glass-asbestos yarn for insulation lagging cloth to conserve asbestos fiber.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- Second World War
- Population
- Navy wartime shipbuilding program generally
- Limitations
- The Navy document describes wartime material development and standard cloth, not a procurement, installation, or survey record for LCI(L)-756 or its class. The date of adoption aboard this hull, if any, is unknown; it establishes no ship-specific asbestos exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-756-lcil756-08
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[10]U.S. General Accounting Office, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2, enclosure I (Navy letter of January 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- Enclosure I, Navy letter; extracted text block answering GAO question on shipboard asbestos applications
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- In January 1979, the Navy reported asbestos-containing thermal insulation, piping gaskets and packing, deck materials, electrical cabling and galley ranges, and equipment brakes and clutches among Navy shipboard applications generally, and stated it was nearly impossible to build a Navy ship free of the mineral.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy fleet generally (1979 correspondence)
- Limitations
- This 1979 fleet-wide statement does not name LCI(L)-756, describe its 1944 build, or document any product aboard it. Its claim that ships then in service contained asbestos cannot be applied to a vessel sold out of U.S. custody in November 1946. No hull-specific exposure inference is made.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-756-lcil756-09
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[11]Batch 5484 search ledger and source-review record [other_primary]
- Locator
- Search-ledger rows sl-01 through sl-16; BATCH-5484-REPORT.md
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No public ship-specific asbestos survey, material list, abatement record, or product identification was located in the official and archival sources reviewed for USS LCI(L)-756 / LCI(G)-756 / LCI(M)-756. The completed CourtListener sweep - opinion searches on "LCI(L)-756", "LCI(G)-756", "LCI(M)-756", and "LCI-756", plus exact-name docket search "USS LCI(L)-756" - returned HTTP 200 with zero results on each query.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- Search performed 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- A bounded negative search result is not evidence that no asbestos was present aboard, and zero CourtListener hits do not prove no claim was ever filed - RECAP coverage is incomplete, the sweep covers indexed opinions and dockets only, and asbestos cases commonly plead dozens of vessels. Undigitized logs, builder specifications, conversion work packages, and disposal records may change the assessment.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-756-lcil756-10