Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]NavSource Online, Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSM-467 hull page; Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (HyperWar/ibiblio transcription), LSM-467 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource hull page chronology block; DANFS entry http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/LSM/lsm467.html
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- LSM-467 was laid down 20 January 1945 at Brown Ship Building Co., Houston, Texas; launched 10 February 1945; and commissioned as USS LSM-467 on 15 March 1945 with Lt. Ralph L. Brunson, USNR, in command. Brunson is the only commanding officer listed on the hull page. The hull page also records the voice radio call sign 'Abracadabra Seven.' The DANFS entry corroborates the builder and the 15 March 1945 commissioning with Lt. Brunson in command.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- Brown Ship Building construction workforce and commissioning crew
- Limitations
- Establishes construction and commissioning identity; neither source documents asbestos, insulation composition, hazmat condition, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-467-lsm467-01
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[2]NavSource Online, Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSM-467 hull page (history extract credited to LSM-LSMR Amphibious Forces, Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1997) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Hull page chronology block, awards listing, and photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- During World War II, USS LSM-467 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater with LSM Flotilla Eleven, LSM Group Thirty-Two, and LSM Division Sixty-Three, and following the war was assigned to occupation service in the Far East from 16 September to 14 December 1945. Hull-page photo captions document Sasebo Harbor, Kyushu, 22-24 September 1945 with a six-LSM group that had transported the 5th Marine Tank Battalion from Hilo; Tulosa, Leyte, 11 December 1945; Guiuan, Samar, 20 December 1945; Taloma and Kling, Mindanao, 25 December 1945 and 4 January 1946; Davao, 28 December 1945; Lubang Island occupation duty, late February 1946; and Manila Bay, March 1946; then return from Guiuan via Apra Harbor, Guam, and Pearl Harbor to Port Hueneme, California, 11 April to 21 May 1946, in company with LSM-372, LSM-394, and LSM-487, and departure from San Francisco Bay on 27 May 1946 with PC-589 and USS LST-1018 traveling north for decommissioning. NavSource lists awards of the American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, and Navy Occupation Service Medal with Asia clasp; no battle stars are listed.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- Ship's company and occupation-duty operating personnel
- Limitations
- Establishes the listed theater assignment, occupation-service window, and awards; it is not a complete voyage narrative and does not establish asbestos content or exposure. The 1 May 1945 fleet-organization record does not list this hull (see ev-uss-lsm-467-lsm467-07), so the assignment reflects her wartime organization after joining the fleet.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-467-lsm467-02
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[3]National Archives Catalog, file unit 77539864, RG 38, WWII War Diaries, Other Operational Records and Histories [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA Catalog ID 77539864; microfilm roll A1925; Fold3 scan reference 300873779
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The National Archives catalog holds a ship-specific file unit titled 'USS LSM-467 - Report of operations in the occupation of Sasebo, Kyushu, Japan, 9/22-24/45,' dated 1 October 1945, in Record Group 38 (Records of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations), series 'World War II War Diaries, Other Operational Records and Histories,' microfilm roll A1925, scanned under a NARA-Fold3 collaboration. The record documents that the ship produced an operations report for the Sasebo occupation landing of 22-24 September 1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1945-09-22 to 1945-10-01
- Population
- Ship's company during the Sasebo occupation landing
- Limitations
- The catalog metadata itself was reviewed; the scanned report pages reside behind Fold3 and their content was not read. The record establishes that the ship filed the named operations report; it does not establish asbestos content, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-467-lsm467-03
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[4]NavSource Online, USS LSM-467 hull page, photo caption (photo by Ens. Carl Metz, USS LSM-467) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Hull page photo caption, image 101446725
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- On 9 October 1945 during Typhoon Louise at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, the Liberty ship SS Midwest Farmer collided with LSM-467; the NavSource photo caption records that the collision buckled the starboard superstructure, damaged the radio shack, and trapped men in the radar plot.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1945-10-09
- Population
- Ship's company during the collision and any repair period
- Limitations
- Establishes the reported collision damage during Typhoon Louise; a photo caption is not a damage report and does not establish repair scope, material composition, asbestos disturbance, or exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-467-lsm467-04
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[5]NavSource Online, USS LSM-467 hull page; Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (HyperWar/ibiblio transcription), LSM-467 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource hull page chronology block; DANFS entry http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/LSM/lsm467.html
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- USS LSM-467 was decommissioned 12 August 1946, struck from the Naval Register 25 September 1946, and sold 8 October 1947 to Nick Bez, Seattle, Washington, for conversion to a barge named Corregidor. NavSource reports final disposition as scrapped circa 1980; DANFS reports 'scrapped sometime after 1980.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1946-1980
- Population
- Barge-conversion and commercial-service workforce after 1947
- Limitations
- Establishes decommissioning, strike, sale, conversion, and reported scrapping; no shipbreaking, conversion-yard, hazmat, or asbestos record is supplied. The scrapping date is approximate and differs slightly between sources.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-467-lsm467-05
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[6]NavSource Online, USS LSM-467 specifications [other_primary]
- Locator
- Specification block of the hull page
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The hull page lists 5 officers and 54 enlisted, troop accommodations for 2 officers and 46 enlisted, displacement 520 tons light / 743 tons landing / 1,095 tons fully loaded, length 203 feet 6 inches overall, beam 34 feet 6 inches, maximum speed 13.2 knots, and propulsion by two Fairbanks Morse model 38D81/8X10 reversible diesel engines with hydraulic clutches, direct drive, 1,440 BHP each at 720 rpm, twin propellers, 2,800 shp, with two diesel-drive 100-kW AC and one diesel-drive 20-kW DC ship's service generators.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1945-1946
- Population
- Ship's company and embarked troop capacity
- Limitations
- Supports complement and diesel propulsion only; this is a diesel ship with no steam plant. It does not identify asbestos-containing components or establish that any listed machinery insulation, gasket, packing, electrical insulation, or deck covering contained asbestos.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-467-lsm467-06
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[7]Naval History and Heritage Command, United States Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945 (archived copy; live URL returned 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Archived copy, LSM Flotilla Eleven / LSM Group Thirty-Two / LSM Division 63 table
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official NHHC United States Pacific Fleet organization record of 1 May 1945 contains LSM Flotilla Eleven with LSM Group Thirty-Two and its LSM Division 63 (hulls LSM-283 through LSM-288), the organization to which NavSource assigns LSM-467, but does not list LSM-467 itself - consistent with the ship's 15 March 1945 commissioning and later arrival in the Pacific.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1945-05-01
- Population
- Pacific Fleet amphibious personnel (organizational context)
- Limitations
- The document corroborates the wartime organization structure but does not name this hull; the hull's absence at 1 May 1945 neither confirms nor contradicts the NavSource assignment for the ship's later wartime service. It supplies no asbestos, exposure, or causation information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-467-lsm467-07
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[8]Inference from the ship-specific NavSource diesel specification and the documented source-review negative [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource propulsion/specification block; source-review negative documented in search ledger
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- No ship-specific asbestos survey, product inventory, abatement record, or condition report was located. Because LSM-467 was a World War II U.S. Navy diesel landing ship, machinery or diesel-exhaust insulation, gaskets, packing, electrical insulation, and deck covering are possible class/era application categories, but none is documented aboard this hull.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1945-1946
- Population
- World War II Navy diesel landing-ship construction and operating personnel
- Limitations
- Possible categories only, not a finding that asbestos was installed aboard LSM-467. The cited hull page does not identify asbestos or insulation composition; no quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation is established.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-467-lsm467-08
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[9]Corn, Jacqueline Karnell, and Jennifer Starr, 'Historical perspective on asbestos: Policies and protective measures in World War II shipbuilding,' American Journal of Industrial Medicine 11(3):359-373 (1987) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Abstract and article, AJIM 11(3):359-373
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Peer-reviewed historical scholarship documents that asbestos was used extensively as a fireproofing and insulating material in U.S. shipbuilding during World War II, the era and program under which this LSM-1-class hull was mass-produced, and that wartime demand drove unprecedented asbestos utilization aboard wartime hulls.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1940s era documented; article 1987
- Population
- WWII shipyard workers and ship crews (class context)
- Limitations
- Program/era-level scholarly documentation of asbestos use in WWII shipbuilding generally; does not name this vessel and does not establish that asbestos was or remains aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-467-lsm467-09
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[10]CourtListener API v4 via /Users/charlesfletcher/devin-prompts/cl-auth-search.py [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger sl-uss-lsm-467-lsm467-07; authenticated exact-name and hull-number queries
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The authenticated CourtListener sweep found no qualifying asbestos litigation record for USS LSM-467. Exact-name ("USS LSM-467") and hull-number ("LSM-467", "LSM 467") queries across opinions and dockets each returned zero results; there were no collisions to classify.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 2026-10-01
- Limitations
- This is a search result, not proof that no unindexed or non-text-linked case exists. The search ran during fleet-wide pacing after several budget-spent retries; all four queries returned empty result sets.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-467-lsm467-10
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[11]Source-review negative across the sources listed in the search ledger [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lsm-467-lsm467-01 through -09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No ship-specific asbestos documentation was located in the public sources reviewed: the live NavSource hull page, the DANFS entry, the NARA catalog records located, and official-source web results contain no asbestos survey, insulation-material statement, abatement record, hazmat disclosure, or qualifying asbestos litigation record for LSM-467.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 2026-10-01
- Limitations
- A negative public-source finding is not proof that asbestos was absent. Non-digitized Navy, shipyard, barge-conversion, and scrapping records may contain additional evidence; asbestos documentation therefore remains class_or_era.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-467-lsm467-11