Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet 495-packet.md (4 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lcs-l-3-122-lcsl3122-pkt-495-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online, Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSSL-122 ex USS LCS(L)(3)-122 (page 10/05/050122; live page verified 2026-09-30) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Page header; construction and service timeline; awards display; disposition bullet
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The hull page identifies USS LCS(L)(3)-122: laid down 9 November 1944 at George Lawley & Sons Corp., Neponset, Massachusetts; launched 18 November 1944; commissioned 8 December 1944 with LT. Richard M. McCool Jr., USN, in command; assigned to LCS(L)(3) Flotilla Four, Group Ten, Division Twenty; participated in the Okinawa Gunto operation (10 May-22 June 1945); performed Far East occupation service 2 September 1945-10 February 1946; decommissioned on a date listed as unknown; redesignated USS LSSL-122 on 28 February 1949; struck from the Naval Register on a date listed as unknown; and sold for scrapping to J. C. Berkwit and Co., New York, NY, 23 February 1951. The awards display lists the Navy Unit Commendation and one battle star for World War II service; the accompanying sentence misprints the hull number as LCS(L)(3)-121.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1951
- Population
- George Lawley construction trades (1944); Navy crew (1944-1946); scrapyard workers at J. C. Berkwit and Co. (1951)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a compiled historical/photo archive, not a Navy registry record. The page supports the listed identity, milestones, designations, awards display, and scrapping disposition; it does not document asbestos, individual exposure, causation, or remaining material aboard. The sale price is rendered on the page as "$8,444,44", an evident typographical error not reproduced as fact here; and the award sentence's "LCS(L)(3)-121" appears to be a numbering typo on this hull's page.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-122-lcsl3122-01
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[3]NavSource Online, "A Brief History of USS LCS(L)(3) 122" by Richard M. McCool, Commanding Officer (page 10/05/050122h; live page verified 2026-09-30) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Full-text history subpage of the NavSource hull page
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The commanding officer's first-person account records: commissioning at Lawley Shipyards, Neponset, on 8 December 1944; training at Little Creek, Virginia, and Solomons, Maryland; transit via Key West and the Panama Canal in January 1945; San Diego and Pearl Harbor training; arrival off Okinawa 10 May 1945 attached to the Fifth Amphibious Forces for anti-suicide-boat and radar picket patrol; an enemy aircraft shot down and an assist credited on 29 May 1945; rescue of ninety-nine crew members of the sinking USS William D. Porter (DD-579) on 10 June 1945; a night attack by three Japanese planes on 11 June 1945 in which one was shot down, an assist was credited on another, and the third crashed into the base of the pilothouse, killing eleven men and wounding twenty-nine; battle-damage repairs at Leyte for about seven weeks from late June 1945; and arrival in Tokyo Bay 11 September 1945 for occupation duty.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Navy crew of LCS(L)(3)-122 (1944-1946), including 11 killed and 29 wounded on 11 June 1945
- Limitations
- A first-person narrative by the commanding officer hosted on a photo-archive site; detailed and consistent with the Medal of Honor citation and campaign chronology, but it is a memoir transcription rather than an official after-action or deck-log record. It contains no asbestos information and does not establish exposure conditions aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-122-lcsl3122-02
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[4]U.S. Naval Academy, Notable Graduates: Richard Miles McCool, Medal of Honor Recipient (official U.S. Navy site; live page verified 2026-09-30) [other_primary]
- Locator
- USNA Notable Graduates > Medal of Honor Recipients > 1945 > McCool citation text
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official Medal of Honor citation names "the USS LCS(L)(3)122" as Lieutenant McCool's command during operations against Japanese forces in the Ryukyu chain on 10 and 11 June 1945: on radar picket duty off Okinawa on 10 June he aided in evacuating all survivors from a sinking destroyer; early in the evening of 11 June his craft was attacked by two of the enemy's suicide squadron, shooting down the first and damaging the second before it crashed his station in the conning tower and engulfed the immediate area in flames; despite shrapnel wounds and burns he led firefighting and rescue efforts until evacuated.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-06-10 to 1945-06-11
- Population
- LT. Richard M. McCool Jr. and crew of LCS(L)(3)-122
- Limitations
- An official Navy biographical/citation page that confirms the named hull, its command structure, and the combat events of 10-11 June 1945. It documents personnel casualties and battle damage, not asbestos conditions; nothing in the citation bears on materials aboard. The citation's count of attackers ("two") differs slightly from the commanding officer's memoir ("three"); both are reported as written.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-122-lcsl3122-03
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[5]The National WWII Museum, "Lieutenant Richard Miles McCool, Jr's Medal of Honor" (Kali Martin, published 11 June 2021; live page verified 2026-09-30) [museum_official]
- Locator
- Article body; quoted after-action report passage; photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The museum profile confirms LCS(L)(3)-122 on Radar Picket Station 15 north of Okinawa, quotes the ship's after-action report describing the 11 June 1945 kamikaze attack (a Val crashing into the starboard side at the base of the conning tower, fires through the amidships section, exploding pyrotechnic and 20mm ammunition, and a bomb passing through the ship before exploding), and records that McCool received the Medal of Honor from President Truman at the White House in December 1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-06-10 to 1945-06-11
- Population
- Navy crew of LCS(L)(3)-122 (June 1945)
- Limitations
- A museum historian's secondary account quoting the ship's after-action report; the underlying report itself was not directly retrieved and remains an archival lead. The article contains two evident year typos ("June 10, 1944" for the Porter sinking in a photo caption and "December 1944" for the White House ceremony in another caption; the body text gives December 1945). No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-122-lcsl3122-04
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[6]NavSource Online, USS LSSL-122 ex USS LCS(L)(3)-122, specifications block; specifications sources identified on page as Ships' Data U.S. Naval Vessels, NAVSHIPS 250-012 (15 April 1945), A.D. Baker III, and George Lawley & Sons plans/instructions [other_primary]
- Locator
- Specifications section: displacement, dimensions, complement, propulsion
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The hull page lists 250 tons light and 387 tons full-load displacement, 158 feet overall length, 23 feet 8 inches beam, a complement of 6 officers and 65 enlisted, and propulsion by two General Motors 6051 Series 71 diesel engines rated at 1,600 BHP, a single General Motors main reduction gear, two diesel-drive 60 kW 450 V AC ship-service generators, and twin variable-pitch propellers.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1951
- Population
- Crew of 6 officers and 65 enlisted; construction and maintenance trades
- Limitations
- These are ship-page specifications and identify a diesel plant, not asbestos-containing materials. They do not establish that any insulation, gaskets, packing, or electrical components aboard this hull contained asbestos.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-122-lcsl3122-05
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[7]NavSource Online, Amphibious Photo Archive, USS Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD-29) (page 10/09/0929; live page verified 2026-09-30) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Page header; photo caption for keel-laying ceremony image 10092902
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD-29) was laid down 12 April 2019 at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, and commissioned 7 September 2024 at NAS Pensacola. The page notes the namesake received the Medal of Honor "for his heroic actions in rescuing survivors from a sinking destroyer and for saving his own landing support ship during an enemy attack while injured" - the 10-11 June 1945 action aboard LCS(L)(3)-122.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 2019-2024 (namesake ship); 1945 (underlying action)
- Limitations
- Documents a different, modern hull named for this vessel's commanding officer; included as legacy context confirming the 1945 action's significance. It establishes nothing about materials or conditions aboard LCS(L)(3)-122.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-122-lcsl3122-06
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[8]U.S. Government Accountability Office, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (18 October 1979), product page; full text blocked to automated retrieval [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page; full-text retrieval blocked (HTTP 403)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- The GAO report is an era-level Navy program source concerning protection of workers from asbestos exposure. Its subject is Navy-wide worker protection, not USS LCS(L)(3)-122, and it is used only to contextualize the 1944-1951 Navy service and disposal window.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1979 report concerning earlier Navy practices
- Population
- Navy shipyard and shipboard workers covered by the program review
- Limitations
- The GAO product page returned HTTP 403 to automated retrieval and the full report was not verified in this session. This row does not establish asbestos aboard this hull, a particular product, quantity, location, or individual exposure; it remains context only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-122-lcsl3122-07
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[9]CourtListener API v4 opinion search, query "LCS(L)(3)-122" (unquoted full-text), authenticated via cl-auth-search.py, executed 2026-09-30 [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search results, first result page; search_ledger rows sl-uss-lcs-l-3-122-lcsl3122-08 through -10
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- An authenticated CourtListener opinion search for LCS(L)(3)-122 returned only name-collision results (LCS Services, LCS Corrections Services, LCS Financial Services, and unrelated docket text); no opinion naming USS LCS(L)(3)-122 or LSSL-122 was located in the results reviewed. Quoted exact-phrase and alias queries remained pending when the fleet-wide pacing stand-down interrupted further requests.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 2026-09-30 research session
- Limitations
- One completed full-text query is not an exhaustive litigation negative: exact-phrase, LSSL-122 alias, and RECAP docket searches were not completed before the pacing stand-down, so an asbestos pleading naming the hull could exist outside the reviewed results. No qualifying litigation finding is asserted; the litigation picture for this hull is incomplete, not negative.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-122-lcsl3122-08
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[10]Batch-5672 source sweep and search ledger [other_primary]
- Locator
- Search-ledger rows sl-uss-lcs-l-3-122-lcsl3122-01 through -13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No ship-specific asbestos survey, abatement contract, insulation schedule, hazmat disclosure, or qualifying asbestos litigation record was located in the sources completed for this hull. This is a located-record negative finding only; it is not a finding that asbestos was absent from the vessel.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 2026-09-30 research session
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - the hull was scrapped in 1951 and no material or disposal survey was found. Does not establish that asbestos was or was not present; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-122-lcsl3122-09