Evidence
12 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-12).
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[1]research packet 505-packet.md (1 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS LCS(L)(3)-66 (hull number only, never renamed; never redesignated LSSL-66)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lcs-l-3-66-lcsl366-pkt-505-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCS(L)(3)-66 hull page (milestones, awards, specifications from NavShips 250-012; photos credited to the National Association of USS LCS(L) 1-130) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Hull page history block, awards/ribbons block, commanding-officers block, and specifications block; photo captions 1005006601/1005006602
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down 24 October 1944 at Albina Engine and Machine Works Inc., Portland, Oregon; launched 23 November 1944; commissioned USS LCS(L)(3)-66 on 2 January 1945, LTjg. E. M. Eakin, USN, in command; assigned Asiatic-Pacific theater, LCS(L)(3) Flotilla Four (CDR. N. Phillips, USN) / Group Twelve (LCDR. B. D. Voegelin, USNR) / Division Twenty-Three; campaign - Okinawa Gunto operation, assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 10 May to 30 June 1945; Navy Occupation service in the Far East 2 September 1945 to 14 April 1946; decommissioned (date unknown); struck from the Naval Register (date unknown); one battle star for WWII service; sold 12 January 1948 to Alfred Ghezzi, Jr. & E. W. Hundley, Seattle, WA; final disposition unknown. Awards block: American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1 star), WWII Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Service Medal (Asia clasp), Philippines Liberation Medal. Photos (National Association of USS LCS(L) 1-130) show the ship under way at Yokosuka, Japan, circa late 1945 or January 1946 with HIJMS Nagato in the background.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Crew of LCS(L)(3)-66 (6 officers, 65 enlisted per class spec)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not an official registry - its milestone data generally track official sources but it publishes no underlying documents for this hull. Contains no asbestos or material content. Decommissioning and strike dates are stated as unknown by the source itself. Armament listing on this page (single 40mm bow mount) differs from the class-table armament at HyperWar (1 x 3"/50 DP) and from sister-hull pages (twin 40mm bow) - see gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-66-01
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[3]National Archives, Special List 44 - List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947 (ship-number section) [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, PDF page 33, entry 'LCS(L)(3)-66 1/2/1945 12/31/1945' (verified verbatim via pdftotext on the live file, MD5 639e2f288db3e0c7a8e7489a0b57bf07)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Special List 44 (ship-number section, PDF page 33) indexes Navy deck logs held for LCS(L)(3)-66 covering 1/2/1945 through 12/31/1945 - establishing documented in-service WWII coverage from the commissioning date through the Okinawa campaign and the first months of Far East occupation service. The deck logs themselves (NARA, RG 24) are the primary archival lead for day-by-day operations, locations, and any material or maintenance notations for this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-01-02 to 1945-12-31
- Limitations
- Finding aid lists log coverage dates, not log content; coverage dates are not themselves commissioning or decommissioning dates. Logbooks were not read for this record - nothing in them has been examined or ruled on. Post-1945 logs (through the end of occupation service, 14 April 1946) are outside this list's coverage and their location is unverified here. The hull does not appear on NARA's published list of fully digitized deck logs.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-66-02
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[4]NavSource-hosted first-person unit history, 'A Brief History of U.S.S. LCS(L)(3) 66' by Robert P. Grimes, crew member (provided by the National Association of USS LCS(L) 1-130) [other_primary]
- Locator
- LCS(L)(3)-66 'History' page, 'A Brief History of U.S.S. LCS(L)(3) 66' narrative, full text
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A crew member's narrative for this hull documents: crew assembled at Fort Pierce, FL (ordnance division) and Solomons, MD (deck, engineering, special branches), united at Solomons 1 December 1944; five-day rail journey to Portland, Oregon, arriving 13 December 1944; commissioning 2 January 1945; ten days' outfitting; departed Portland 15 January via Astoria, arrived San Diego 22 January; three weeks of maneuvers, beach-bombardment, and anti-aircraft practice; departed San Diego 22 February, arrived Pearl Harbor 3 March (repainted; practice invasions); departed 13 April for Guam, redirected to Saipan, then ordered to Okinawa; two submarine scares en route 9-10 May; arrived Okinawa 10 May; harbor-entrance patrol against suicide boats from 11 May; radar-picket duty with destroyers, LCSs, and LSMs from 13 May; night air attacks 19-20 May; on 6 June, on radar picket station 15A, a kamikaze struck a destroyer on the station and LCS(L)(3)-66 rescued four men in the water (one officer, three enlisted), and on 7 June picked up a survivor from LCS-86; shore bombardment of Japanese positions 12 and 15 June; departed Okinawa 22 July for San Pedro Bay, Leyte, arriving 26 July (rest, recreation, refitting); joined a Tokyo Bay convoy 3 September, arrived Yokohama 11 September; from 13 September ferried liberty parties between Yokosuka, Yokohama, and Tokyo and air freight to Kisarazu Air Field. Crew's own tally for Okinawa: one suicide boat destroyed, one enemy plane shot down, several survivors rescued.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-12-01 to 1945-09-13 (narrative coverage)
- Population
- Crew of LCS(L)(3)-66
- Limitations
- Primary-authored but unofficial memoir hosted on a secondary site; establishes the operational narrative as the writer recalls it. Some details (e.g., the identity of the destroyer hit on 6 June, 'Moni Island' for the practice-landing site) are unverified and are not asserted beyond the memoir's wording. No asbestos or material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-66-03
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[5]Naval History and Heritage Command, H-Gram 048-2 'Naval Battle of Okinawa (Continued)' - USS Douglas H. Fox (DD-779) action narrative, 17 May 1945 [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- H-Gram 048-2, 'USS Douglas H. Fox (DD-779), 17 May 1945' section; campaign summary paragraph '12 LCSs were hit by kamikazes and bombs'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- An official NHHC ship-history publication names this hull in company on radar picket duty at Okinawa: on 17 May 1945 'the destroyers Douglas H. Fox and Van Valkenburgh (DD-656), along with LCS(L)-53, -65, -66, and -67, were at Radar Picket Station No. 9, southwest of Kerama Retto' during a coordinated dusk kamikaze raid in which about ten aircraft attacked both destroyers; Douglas H. Fox took a kamikaze hit (10 killed, 35 wounded) and the LCS(L)s supported the station's air defense. The H-gram also records that 12 LCSs were hit by kamikazes and bombs during the Battle of Okinawa with a combined 65 killed and 103 wounded - the radar-picket duty this hull performed was the highest-threat small-ship assignment of the Okinawa campaign.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-05-17 (event); April-June 1945 (campaign context)
- Population
- Crew of LCS(L)(3)-66
- Limitations
- Official NHHC history publication naming the hull's station and company on 17 May 1945; it does not state whether -66 fired on, was hit by, or suffered casualties from that raid. Crew memoir (ev-03) places the hull on picket duty from 13 May and on station 15A on 6 June - station numbers may have rotated. No asbestos or material content. NHHC URLs return 404 to plain HEAD requests but serve full content to normal fetches - verified live via firecrawl 2026-09-30.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-66-04
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[6]Naval History and Heritage Command, 'Casualties Navy and Coast Guard Ships' - Landing Craft, Support (Large)(Mk. III) section [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Casualties page, 'Landing Craft, Support (Large)(Mk. III) (LCS(L))' section
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The NHHC WWII casualty roster for the LCS(L) type lists the hulls sunk or damaged beyond repair: LCS(L)(3)-7, -15, -26, -33, -49, and -127 (sunk) and LCS(L)(3)-37 (engines damaged beyond repair). LCS(L)(3)-66 does not appear - consistent with the crew memoir's account of surviving the Okinawa picket line without a hit, and with the campaign record carrying her through to occupation duty.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1941-1945 (roster coverage)
- Limitations
- Absence from the official casualty roster establishes only that the hull was not sunk or damaged beyond repair - it does not rule out lesser damage or personnel casualties, and carries no asbestos or material content. NHHC page verified live via firecrawl 2026-09-30 (plain HEAD requests return 404).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-66-05
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[7]uboat.net Allied Warships of WWII - USS LCS(L)-66 entry [other_primary]
- Locator
- Ship data block (Ordered/Built by/Laid down/Launched/Commissioned; History line)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Ship-specific milestone corroboration from an independent compilation: ordered 16 June 1944; built by Albina Engine & Machine Works, Portland, Oregon; laid down 24 October 1944; launched 23 November 1944; commissioned 2 January 1945; 'Sold on 12 January 1948.' Dates agree with NavSource on every shared field.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Crew of LCS(L)-66
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation; confirms milestones and the 1948 sale only - no operational narrative, no asbestos or material content. Order date (16 Jun 1944) appears only in this source.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-66-06
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[8]uswarships.jounin.jp LCS(L) class list (Japanese-language compilation); corroborated on disposition by Nauticapedia (BC's Heritage Vessel Database), vessel id 89958 [other_primary]
- Locator
- uswarships.jounin.jp/lcs(l).htm row 'LCS(L)(3)-66'; https://nauticapedia.ca/vessel.php?id=89958 'Owners & Masters' entry (verified live 2026-09-30 via firecrawl; plain HEAD returns 403)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Secondary-compilation row for this hull carries dates NavSource lacks: jounin.jp lists commissioned 1945/1/2, decommissioned 1946/9/30, struck 1946/10/29, plus milestone notes corroborating the crew memoir (early March 1945 repainting at Pearl Harbor; late July 1945 repair period at San Pedro Bay) and the 12 January 1948 sale to Alfred Ghezzi, Jr. & E. W. Hundley of Seattle. Nauticapedia independently records 1948 ownership by Ghezzi & Hundley, Seattle, WA.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Crew of LCS(L)(3)-66; post-sale civilian owners/crew (unverified)
- Limitations
- Secondary references. The decommission (1946/9/30) and strike (1946/10/29) dates conflict with NavSource's 'date unknown' and appear in no official source consulted - carried as unverified variants in gaps, not asserted. A sale date of 12 Jan 1948 post-dates a 29 Oct 1946 strike by ~14 months, which is internally plausible but unconfirmed. No asbestos or material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-66-07
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[9]NavSource LCS(L)(3) class photo index - class summary block and hull index [other_primary]
- Locator
- Class index page, unheaded summary paragraph above the photo index; hull-index entry for LCS(L)(3)-66
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Class context: 130 LCS(L)(3)s were built during WWII; the type was developed by the George Lawley Company, Neponset, Mass., and produced there and at Albina Engine and Machine Works and Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon. LCS(L)(3)s served only in the Pacific campaign. Hull-index entry for -66 carries no '/ LSSL-66' suffix - consistent with the source's note that 'in 1949 LCS(L)(3)s remaining in the US Navy's inventory were redesignated Landing Ship Support Large (LSSL),' this hull having been sold out of the inventory on 12 January 1948; fifty-three LSSLs were transferred to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, with others going to allied nations.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1953
- Population
- LCS(L)(3)-class crews, all 130 hulls
- Limitations
- Class-level summary only; says nothing specific to hull -66 beyond situating her builder and confirming no LSSL suffix was ever paired to her number in the index. The 'transferred in 1952' phrasing in the source is loose - individual LSSL transfer records date to 1953. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-66-08
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[10]NavShips 250-012 (Ships' Data U.S. Naval Vessels, 15 April 1945) propulsion specifications via NavSource; era-standard asbestos applications inferred from all-diesel plant and 1944 U.S. Navy construction practice [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource hull page, Specifications > Propulsion block (sourced to NavShips 250-012)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- This hull's machinery was all-diesel - per NavShips 250-012, two quad-packs of four General Motors 6051-series-71 diesel engines per shaft (1,600 bhp), single GM main reduction gears, twin variable-pitch propellers, and two diesel-driven 60 kW 450 V AC ship's-service generators - so there were no boilers or steam lines aboard. Era-standard asbestos applications aboard a 1944 U.S. Navy combatant of this size were therefore the non-steam set: diesel-engine exhaust/muffler lagging, machinery insulation, gaskets, valve packing, electrical cable insulation, deck covering/insulation panels, and winch and windlass brake linings - applications documented as standard wartime naval practice (see GAO HRD-80-2 context row).
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Construction trades (Albina, 1944); engine-room and deck-force crew; any post-sale civilian crew
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, builder work package, or post-sale refit record was located for LCS(L)(3)-66. Names era-standard applications for the type and period, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. Product-level manufacturer attribution is not possible from available sources.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-66-09
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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, report summary
- 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 entire construction (1944) and U.S. Navy service era (1945-1948).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- WWII-1970s
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers and ship crews (program-level)
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. Full text not retrieved - gao.gov blocks automated fetch (HTTP 403, confirmed 2026-09-30); content via product-page description, consistent with the batch-98/batch-5730 treatment.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-66-10
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[12]Batch-5739 search ledger (this record): NavSource hull, history, and class pages; NARA Special List 44 ship-number PDF; NHHC H-gram 048-2 and WWII casualty roster; NHHC DANFS index/site search; uboat.net; jounin.jp and Nauticapedia vessel registries; NVR; CourtListener opinion API; National Association of USS LCS(L) 1-130 (mightymidgets.org) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lcs-l-3-66-01 through sl-uss-lcs-l-3-66-13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, sale-condition report, or docketed case naming LCS(L)(3)-66 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener opinion searches on 'LCS(L)(3)-66', 'LSSL-66', and 'LCS(L)-66' each returned zero results (authenticated API, count=0). No DANFS entry and no NVR page exist for this hull; the hull does not appear on the NHHC WWII casualty roster or on NARA's published list of digitized deck logs. The only asbestos content associated with her builder (Albina Engine & Machine Works) appears on law-firm/marketing sites - excluded by source policy.
- 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 - era-standard use in 1944 USN construction is documented at program level. NARA deck logs (inventoried but unread, 1/2/1945-12/31/1945) and any surviving Albina or post-sale owner records are the open leads. A CourtListener docket-type (RECAP) search was not run - opinion-index negatives do not rule out undocketed or unindexed matters.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-66-11