Evidence
13 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-13).
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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-757-lcil757-pkt-468-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(M)-757 ex USS LCI(G)-757 ex USS LCI(L)-757 page (history compiled from USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry', Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource archive page 10/15/150757 (ship entry, campaign table, unit listing, awards/ribbons block, commanding-officer table, and specifications block) - verified live via firecrawl
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity, construction, conversions, and wartime record for this hull: laid down 10 April 1944 at Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Ore.; launched 7 May 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-757 on 15 May 1944, Lt. E. Z. Winkleman, USNR, in command. Reclassified LCI(G)-757 on 31 December 1944 and LCI(M)-757 on 30 April 1945. Wartime organization: LCI Flotilla Twenty-One (Comdr. L. B. Balliere, USNR), LCI Group Sixty-One (Lt. Cdr. W. T. Dom, USNR), LCI Division One Hundred Twenty-One. Credited campaigns (two battle stars): Iwo Jima operation - assault and occupation 19-26 Feb 1945; Okinawa Gunto operation - assault and occupation 26 Mar-14 Jun 1945. Postwar: Navy Occupation Service 18 Nov 1945-21 Jan 1946 and China Service (extended) 18 Nov 1945-24 Mar 1946. Decommissioned date unknown; struck from the Naval Register, date unknown; transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal 26 April 1948; final fate unknown. Specification block: 246 t. light / 264 t. landing / 419 t. loaded; 158 ft 5.5 in; all-diesel propulsion (two sets of four GM diesels, 2,320 shp); complement by configuration LCI(L) 4 officers/24 enlisted, LCI(G) 5/65, LCI(M) 4/49; troop capacity 6 officers/182 enlisted.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Crew (LCI(L): 4 officers, 24 enlisted; LCI(G): 5/65; LCI(M): 4/49) and embarked troops as configured (up to 6 officers, 182 enlisted), 1944-1946
- Limitations
- NavSource is a compiled secondary reference (transcribing Turner Publishing's USS LCI volume and Navy records), not a contemporaneous log or action report. Decommissioning date, striking date, and final fate are recorded as unknown. NavSource's commissioning/CO line is independently confirmed by the hull's own war diary (ev-03). Contains no asbestos information whatsoever.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-757-lcil757-01
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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 TWENTY-ONE' section: LCI GROUP 61, LCI DIVISION 121 (M), row 'LCI 757 - Lt. E. Z. Winkleman (USNR)'; verified live via firecrawl
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Navy's fleet-organization list of 1 May 1945 places 'LCI 757' in LCI Division 121 (M) - the (M) marking the division's mortar configuration - under LCI Group 61 (ComLCIGrp 61: Lt. Cdr. W. T. Dom, USNR), LCI Flotilla Twenty-One (Capt. E. C. Rook / Comdr. L. M. Bailliere, USNR), with Lt. E. Z. Winkleman, USNR, listed as her commanding officer. Sister craft listed in Division 121 (M): LCI 630 (FF), 631 (GF), 638, 756, 760.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-05-01
- Population
- Crew and LCI Group 61 / Flotilla 21 command structure, May 1945
- Limitations
- A point-in-time administrative listing (1 May 1945); it confirms unit assignment and commanding officer on that date, not before or after. No asbestos, material, or condition information. The document is a contemporaneous Navy record hosted by NHHC, not a DANFS narrative - no individual DANFS entry exists for this numbered craft (verified 2026-09-30, candidate URL lci-l--757.html returns 404).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-757-lcil757-02
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[4]National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives Catalog - Record Group 38, WWII War Diaries series: LCI-757 file units NAID 139788254 (Dec 1944), 633409025 (Feb-Mar 1945), 83519110 (Okinawa action report, 25 Mar-10 Apr 1945), 101746523 (1-17 Jul 1945), all digitized; additional located units 139913038, 101712339, 101759580, 101751784, 140084977, 120289026 (RG 24 muster rolls), 139937162, 139931288 [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov file units: NAID 139788254 (war diary pp. 1-2, HISTORY and Dec entries read from digitized images), NAID 633409025 (Feb-Mar diary, 4 images read), NAID 83519110 (15-image action report; cover, narrative, and endorsement pages read), NAID 101746523 (July diary cover read)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The hull's own digitized war diaries and action reports in NARA Record Group 38 (World War II War Diaries, Other Operational Records and Histories) document her service in her commander's own hand. December 1944 war diary (NAID 139788254, letterhead 'USS LCI (M) 757', dated 31 Dec 1944): history section records the ship built by Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon, commissioned there 15 May 1944 with E. Z. Winkleman, Lt., USNR, commanding; assigned first to LCI(L) Group 46 Flotilla 16; re-assigned 24 November 1944 to LCI Group 61 Flotilla 21. Entries 1-8 December: at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard (Baker 15, Tare 12), 'undergoing conversion from LCI (L) to LCI (G), by adding 1-40 MM gun on the bow in place of the 20 MM, and installing 3-4.2 Mortars on the well deck'; compartment No. 2 converted into the main magazine for 40 mm and 4.2 mortar ammunition; 8-10 December in floating drydock ARD-27, hull scraped and painted; 14-16 December mortar firing and AA exercises off Kahoolawe with LCI(M) Training Group 13.10.19; 18-20 December Navy Yard workmen installed a watertight door to the magazine hatch. War diary February-March 1945 (NAID 633409025): convoy with Tractor Group Able to Eniwetok and Saipan (arrived 10 Feb), amphibious training at Tinian 12-13 Feb, sailed 15 Feb for the assault on Iwo Jima; Iwo Jima operations covered by a separate action report submitted 2 March 1945; March: Saipan to San Pedro Bay, Leyte (arrived 9 Mar), mortar/gunboat-division exercises at Dulag 15-19 Mar, departed for Okinawa 24-25 Mar with Tractor Group Easy. Okinawa action report (NAID 83519110, serial C-4-45, 10 Apr 1945, on LCI(G)-757 letterhead but signed 'USS LCI (M) 757'): the ship operated with Task Force 51 as a unit of Mortar Support Division No. 2 (LCI(G)s 633 flag, 1011, 1012, 757, 1023), tactical designation 52.23.2, performing close fire support, standby mortar missions, patrol screening, and smoke laying; 1-3 April expended 501 rounds of 4.2-inch mortar ammunition, 488 rounds of 40 mm, and 798 rounds of 20 mm; went aground on the reef off Keise Shima in heavy smoke and was towed off by fleet tug ATF-98 on 2 April; treated casualties aboard including a crewman with shrapnel wounds to hands and face. War diary 1-17 July 1945 (NAID 101746523): underway 1 July from Saipan for Pearl Harbor with Task Unit 31.29.6; history section notes that on 1 May 1945 she returned to her administrative group (Group 61). Additional digitized file units located, not individually read: war diaries 1-31 Jan 1945 (NAID 139913038) and 14-30 Jun 1945 (NAID 101712339); Okinawa operations reports 11-30 Apr (NAID 101759580), 1-31 May (NAID 101751784), and 1-14 Jun 1945 (NAID 140084977); muster rolls (NAID 120289026); and flotilla-level Iwo Jima reports COM LCI(L) Flotilla 21 (NAID 139937162) and CTU 52.6.2 (NAID 139931288).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-12 to 1945-07
- Population
- Crew of approximately 50-70 (LCI(G)/LCI(M) complements), 1944-1945
- Limitations
- Contemporaneous primary operational records of this hull, read from the digitized images this session. They document movements, conversion work at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard (including yard workmen aboard), combat employment, ammunition expenditure, grounding/salvage, and casualties - but contain no asbestos, insulation-material, or product content. The referenced separate Iwo Jima action report (submitted 2 Mar 1945) was not located as a discrete catalog hit among the file units checked; war-diary titles show loose designation usage ('LCI(M) 757' in Dec 1944 before the official 31 Dec LCI(G) reclassification; a June 1945 diary cataloged as 'LCI(L)-757').
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-757-lcil757-03
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[5]DANFS, Orleans Parish (LST-1069) ship history - 1946 homeward-passage entry [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Orleans Parish entry, paragraph describing the 1946 homeward voyage: 'she took infantry landing craft LCI-757 in tow and delivered her on 29 May 1946 at San Francisco'; verified live via firecrawl
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS records that tank landing ship USS LST-1069 (later Orleans Parish), working her way home from the western Pacific in 1946, 'took infantry landing craft LCI-757 in tow' at Pearl Harbor 'and delivered her on 29 May 1946 at San Francisco' - establishing the hull's return to the United States in U.S. Navy custody after occupation and China service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1946-05-29
- Population
- Any caretaker crew aboard during the tow, May 1946
- Limitations
- A DANFS entry for another vessel that names this hull once, in a towing context; it documents the delivery date and port only - not whether the hull was already decommissioned, her material condition, or her crew state. No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-757-lcil757-04
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[6]Naval History and Heritage Command photo catalog, NH 89259, 'USS LCI-757' [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC photo catalog record NH 89259 (title and caption block); verified live via firecrawl
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The NHHC photograph catalog holds image NH 89259, captioned 'USS LCI-757 ... In San Francisco Bay, circa 1945-46' (courtesy of William H. Davis, 1979) - a ship-specific official photo record consistent with the May 1946 San Francisco arrival under tow.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-1946 (caption date)
- Limitations
- A photograph catalog entry only - caption documents location and approximate date; the 'circa 1945-46' range is imprecise. No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-757-lcil757-05
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[7]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 area, row 'LCI(L)(G)(M)-757 | 5/15/1944 | 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) lists Navy deck logs for 'LCI(L)(G)(M)-757' covering 15 May 1944 through 30 June 1945 - log coverage beginning on her commissioning date and spanning her entire combat career (Iwo Jima, 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
- 1944-1945 (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 (the RG 38 war diaries and action reports were read instead; see ev-03). Logs after 30 June 1945 (through decommissioning and 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-757-lcil757-06
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[8]KOAM News Now (Pittsburg, KS), '4-State Heroes' veteran profile: Ray Aikins [reputable_press]
- Locator
- KOAM '4-State Heroes' profile card fields: DIVISION Navy; RANK Motor Machinist's Mate Third Class; WARTIME SERVICE DATES 1944-1946; MAJOR BATTLES Iwo Jima and Okinawa; UNIT 'Served on the USS LCI 757 with a crew of 60 sailors'; verified live via firecrawl
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A published veteran profile records Motor Machinist's Mate Third Class Ray Aikins of Erie, Kansas, as a crew member of 'USS LCI 757' with wartime service dates 1944-1946, major battles Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and 'a crew of 60 sailors' - a named crew record corroborating this hull's wartime manning and campaign record.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946 (service); profile published c. 2023
- Population
- Individual crew member (Aikins), 1944-1946
- Limitations
- A veteran-recollection profile, not an official manning record: 'crew of 60' is a recollection figure that sits between the LCI(G) (5 officers/65 enlisted) and LCI(M) (4/49) specification complements and is not reconciled with either. Confirms the veteran and the hull's campaign participation; no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-757-lcil757-07
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[9]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 and principal-dimensions/propulsion block; NavSource specifications block for this hull's engine fit
- 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 diesels, four per shaft (NavSource specification block, 2,320 shp) - 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
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Construction trades (Portland OR, 1944); 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 1948).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-757-lcil757-08
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[10]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 document list (itemized shipyard surveys incl. 'Industrial Health and Safety Re-Survey Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon at 13 (March 16-19, 1945)'); verified live via firecrawl
- 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-757-lcil757-09
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[11]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); verified live via firecrawl
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- Oregon Public Broadcasting 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 1944 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-757-lcil757-10
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[12]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 per sibling-batch logs); full 26-page PDF not reviewed for this record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-757-lcil757-11
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[13]Batch-5485 search ledger (this record): NavSource hull page; NHHC 1 May 1945 Pacific Fleet organization list and photo catalog NH 89259; DANFS Orleans Parish entry; NHHC/DANFS candidate URLs; NARA Catalog (RG 38 war diaries/action reports read from digitized images; RG 24 Special List 44 and muster rolls); MARAD Vessel History public search; KOAM veteran profile; ToxicDocs litigation-archive document; OPB/DEQ reporting; shipbuildinghistory (Colton) production table; GAO product page; CourtListener API v4 (blocked by fleet pacing); banned-source web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-757-lcil757-01 through -13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed asbestos case naming LCI-757 / LCI(L)-757 / LCI(G)-757 / LCI(M)-757 was found in the sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener opinion searches could not be executed this session - the fleet-wide authenticated API budget was exhausted by concurrent batch sessions across repeated spaced attempts, and is logged as blocked in the ledger rather than treated as a negative result. A live-web sweep for asbestos/mesothelioma claims naming this hull returned no results; the only asbestos material encountered is law-firm marketing content (asbestos-ships.com, mesothelioma.com and similar listicles) that names the builder yard or lists hull numbers wholesale without primary sourcing - excluded by source policy. 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 1944 combat-built Navy craft the hull sits inside the documented Navy asbestos era, and the litigation repository search is a genuine open gap (blocked, not run). Deck logs (RG 24, indexed through June 1945), unread war-diary months, and builder-yard industrial-health files are undigitized or unexamined leads. Does not establish that asbestos is or is not present, and does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-757-lcil757-12