Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]research packet 592-packet.md (1 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: **VERIFIED (hull identity) / milestone dates UNVERIFIABLE
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lsm-66-lsm66-pkt-592-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSM-66 (history extract from LSM-LSMR Amphibious Forces, Vol. II, Turner Publishing Co., 1997, ISBN 1-56311-389-9; specifications; commanding officers; contributor-captioned photography) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/14/14066.htm header block, campaign table, specifications block, commanding-officers table, photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: LSM-1 Class Landing Ship Medium; laid down 14 July 1944 at Brown Ship Building Co., Houston, TX; launched 5 August 1944; commissioned USS LSM-66 on 6 September 1944, LT. Raymond H. Brubaker USN in command; international radio call sign NVFB. Asiatic-Pacific Theater assignment; credited campaigns: Manila-Bicol operation (Zambales-Subic Bay operation, 29 to 31 January 1945) and Consolidation and capture of the southern Philippines (Palawan Islands landings 28 February 1945; Visayan Island landings 18 to 19 March and 26 March to 1 April 1945); earned two battle stars. Awards displayed: American Campaign Medal; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2); World War II Victory Medal; Philippines Presidential Unit Citation; Philippines Liberation Medal (2). Decommissioned 12 June 1946 at Terminal Island Navy Yard, San Pedro, CA; struck from the Naval Register, date unknown; sold 10 March 1948 to Peter F. Bullen, San Diego, CA, fate unknown. Commanding officers: LT Raymond Harvey Brubaker USN (6 September 1944 - March 1946); LTjg John A. D'Anna USNR (March 1946 - 12 June 1946). Specifications: displacement 520 t. light / 743 t. landing / 1,095 t. full; length 203'6"; beam 34'6"; speed 13.2 kts max; endurance 4,900 miles @ 12 kts; complement 5 officers + 54 enlisted; armament one twin 40mm bow mount + four single 20mm; capacity 5 medium or 3 heavy tanks, or 6 LVTs, or 9 DUKWs; propulsion two Fairbanks Morse model 38D81/8X10 diesels 1,440 BHP each @ 720 rpm, twin propellers 2,800 shp. Photo captions: LSM-66 beached in the Philippines, date and location unknown; LSM-66 nested with USS LSM-468 and USS LSM-114 at Terminal Island CA, missing her bow doors which were lost in a storm (courtesy Harlan Criss).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Brown Shipbuilding construction trades (1944); ship's company 1944-46 (5 officers/54 enlisted plus embarked troops)
- Limitations
- Volunteer-compiled secondary compilation carrying a Turner Publishing history extract - not itself a Navy registry document, though milestones track official records and are corroborated by the Brown yard production table (ev-02) and uboat.net (ev-08). Contains no asbestos or material-content information. 'Struck, date unknown' - uboat.net carries 19 July 1946 (see ev-08).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-66-lsm66-01
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[3]Shipbuilding History (T. Colton compilation), 'Brown Shipbuilding, Houston TX' yard history and hull-by-hull production table [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipbuildinghistory.com Brown yard page: yard-history narrative; hull table row 171
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Yard record for this hull: Brown Shipbuilding yard hull no. 171 = LSM 66, laid down 14-Jul-44, launched 5-Aug-44, delivered 6-Sep-44, disposition 'Sold to Peter F. Bullen 1948'. Yard context: Brown Shipbuilding was built in 1941 by George and Herman Brown at the junction of Green's Bayou and the Houston Ship Channel with $9mm from the Navy; it produced 12 PCs, 32 LCI(L)s, 61 DEs and 254 LSMs - 359 vessels in four years. The yard was leased to Todd Shipyards Corporation in 1949, operated as Todd's Houston Division until 1984, returned to Brown (then Brown & Root) as an offshore fabrication yard, and was sold piecemeal to multiple buyers in 2004 (now the Brown Shipbuilding Industrial Park).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1941-1948
- Population
- Brown Shipbuilding construction workforce (1941-45)
- Limitations
- Published compilation of builder production records, not a primary contract document; dates corroborate NavSource exactly (laid down, launched, delivery = commissioning date). Yard history documents a high-volume wartime emergency yard building this class at peak tempo - it does not document materials, insulation practice, or any asbestos handling at the yard. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-66-lsm66-02
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[4]National Archives catalog, RG 38 'World War II War Diaries, Other Operational Records and Histories' (parent series NAID 4697018): USS LSM-66 file units - 'Rep of ops in the amphibious assault on Lingayen Gulf, Luzon Is, Philippines, 1/9-12/45' (NAID 139867742, report dated 1/16/1945, microfilm roll A1414) and 'Rep of ops in the amphibious assault on landing at San Miguel, Zambales Province, Luzon Is, Philippines, 1/29/45 - 2/1/45' (NAID 139864251, report dated 2/4/1945, microfilm roll A1410) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAID 139867742 (roll A1414) and NAID 139864251 (roll A1410), RG 38, series NAID 4697018
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA holds two ship-authored action reports for this hull: (1) report of operations in the amphibious assault on Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, 9-12 January 1945, dated 16 January 1945 (micro serial 107658, serial 01, microfilm roll A1414); (2) report of operations in the amphibious assault on the landing at San Miguel, Zambales Province, Luzon, 29 January - 1 February 1945, dated 4 February 1945 (micro serial 107342, serial 02, microfilm roll A1410). The San Miguel report's window falls inside the credited Zambales-Subic Bay operation (29-31 January 1945). The Lingayen report documents the ship's participation in the Lingayen assault phase (9-12 January 1945), an operation window that precedes the campaigns listed in the NavSource/Turner battle-star table - the record carries the cataloged report title, not an additional campaign credit.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- Ship's company during Lingayen Gulf and Zambales operations, January-February 1945
- Limitations
- Catalog metadata verified live via the NARA catalog search API on 2026-10-02; the /id/ record pages are JS-rendered and the file-unit scans were not opened this session - titles, dates, serials and microfilm roll numbers verified, contents not extracted. Action reports document operations, not materials; no asbestos claim is made from these records.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-66-lsm66-03
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[5]National Archives catalog, RG 24 'World War II Casualty Reports' (parent series NAID 651298): file unit titled 'LSM 66' (NAID 124042360), container 17 - photographic prints and loose sheets (paper) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAID 124042360, RG 24, series 'World War II Casualty Reports' (NAID 651298), container 17
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA holds a Bureau of Naval Personnel WWII casualty-report file unit titled 'LSM 66' - photographic prints and loose paper sheets in container 17, unrestricted. The Bureau maintained ship-name casualty files for reported personnel/material casualty events; the existence of a file for this hull is consistent with a documented storm casualty (loss of bow doors, per the NavSource photo caption) and/or combat-era personnel casualties during the Philippine operations. Contents were not opened this session.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Ship's company, WWII
- Limitations
- Catalog-metadata-level finding: the file exists and is titled for this hull; nothing asserted about its contents, dates, or any casualty event beyond what the catalog record states. Casualty-report files document injuries/damage, not materials; no asbestos claim is made. Unrestricted and held at NARA College Park - an open archival lead.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-66-lsm66-04
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[6]National Archives catalog, RG 24 'Index to Muster Rolls' (parent series NAID 27023012): file unit 'USS LCI(R)-704 to USS LSM-143' (NAID 118967603) - the index-card unit spanning this hull's alphabetical range [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAID 118967603 (RG 24, Index to Muster Rolls series NAID 27023012); compare per-ship roll entry NAID 126546813 (LSM-143, roll 3720)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's Index to Muster Rolls contains a file unit spanning 'USS LCI(R)-704 to USS LSM-143' - the index card unit covering the muster-roll microfilm for hulls in this range, which includes LSM-66 (commissioned 9/6/44, decommissioned 6/12/46). The corresponding WWII muster rolls exist in the RG 24 'Muster Rolls of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Other Naval Activities' series (sister LSM hulls such as LSM-143 carry per-ship file units there, e.g. NAID 126546813, roll 3720); no per-ship catalog entry titled 'LSM-66' was located in that series this session - the hull's rolls are indexed within the range unit.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- All hands who served aboard LSM-66, 9/1944-6/1946 - the enumerable crew population
- Limitations
- Index-level finding only: establishes that muster-roll microfilm for this hull exists in the indexed range; the per-ship roll frame coverage (commissioning to decommissioning) was not individually cataloged or transcribed this session. Muster rolls are personnel returns - they document crew by name/rate, not materials. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-66-lsm66-05
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[7]LSM Class Manual, 1 March 1944, Serial No. 1766 (issued to USS LSM-294), scanned page-image PDFs hosted on NavSource - U.S. Navy ship's organization and technical manual for the LSM-1 class [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource LSM index 'LSM Class Manual' link; OCR of ch. 30 (Main Propelling Machinery, 4 pp.), 31-9 (Boilers, 1 p.), 32 (Pumps/Tanks/Piping, 9 pp.)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class documentation establishes the machinery fit relevant to era-standard asbestos applications: Chapter 30 confirms the Fairbanks Morse 38D8-1/8 opposed-piston diesel as fitted to hull Nos. 1-125 (covering LSM-66); Chapter 31-9 documents an oil-fired auxiliary steam boiler serving the distilling plant; Chapters 31-8/32 document refrigeration plants, pumps, tanks, and piping systems. Aboard a 1944-built naval vessel, the asbestos-relevant loci on this machinery fit are thermal insulation/lagging on the auxiliary boiler and its steam piping, muffler/exhaust lagging, gaskets at flanged joints, valve and pump packing, and electrical insulation - applied in a small, confined hull. This is era inference: the manual lists equipment, not insulation materials.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- LSM-1-class construction and operating crews (1944-46 era)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - the manual is the class's operational/organizational document issued to a sister ship (LSM-294), not a construction or material specification, and it does not name this hull. OCR review this session of the chapter 30, 31-9, and 32 page-image scans (14 pages) found no explicit 'asbestos,' 'insulation,' 'lagging,' 'magnesia,' 'gasket,' 'packing,' or 'felt' material references - a scoped negative within the manual, not proof that such materials were absent aboard. Does not establish installed materials, quantity, or exposure for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-66-lsm66-06
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[8]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2 (full text blocked, HTTP 403)
- 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 service era (1944-46).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; Navy asbestos program review
- 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 2026-10-02) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-66-lsm66-07
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[9]uboat.net Allied Warships, 'USS LSM 66 (LSM 66)' entry (secondary compilation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship/12677.html sidebar + history block; NavSource 14066.htm
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Secondary cross-check agreeing with NavSource and the Brown yard table on all milestones: ordered 15 Sep 1943; laid down 14 Jul 1944; launched 5 Aug 1944; commissioned 6 Sep 1944; end service 12 Jun 1946 ('Decommissioned on 12 June 1946'); sold on 10 March 1948. For the stricken date NavSource reports 'date unknown'; uboat.net gives 'Stricken on 19 July 1946' - carried as the best available secondary value (consistent with the June 1946 decommissioning and March 1948 sale).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943-1948
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation; the 19 July 1946 stricken date rests on secondary sourcing only - flagged in gaps. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-66-lsm66-08
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[10]CourtListener API v4 authenticated searches, 2026-10-02: type=o "LSM-66" (0 hits); type=o "USS LSM-66" (0 hits); type=r "LSM-66" (0 docket hits) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search results (queries in citation_value; see search_ledger sl-uss-lsm-66-lsm66-04)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming USS LSM-66 was located in CourtListener. All three authenticated searches returned zero hits: the hull-number opinion query "LSM-66", the exact-phrase opinion query "USS LSM-66", and the RECAP docket query "LSM-66" - no opinion and no indexed docket names this vessel.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 2026-10-02
- Limitations
- Zero-hit results are bounded by index coverage: CourtListener indexes opinions and RECAP dockets; unindexed filings, state-court complaints, VA claims, and settled pleading-stage matters may contain ship lists never captured. Interim fleet pacing deferred two queries briefly; all completed this session.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-66-lsm66-09
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[11]Batch-6357 search ledger (this record): NavSource amphibious archive; NARA catalog (action reports, casualty-report file, muster-roll index); shipbuildinghistory.com Brown yard table; NAVSEA Gibbs & Cox model catalog (Wayback); LSM Class Manual chapter OCR; GAO product page; CourtListener API v4; uboat.net cross-check; secondary web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lsm-66-lsm66-01 through -10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed case naming USS LSM-66 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). No DANFS entry exists for this hull - NHHC/DANFS published individual entries only for a handful of named LSMs (Oceanside LSM-175, Lakeland LSM-373), and the candidate NHHC URL for LSM-66 returns 404. The NAVSEA Curator's Gibbs & Cox model catalog contains no LSM-66 entry (LSM-4, LSM-201, and LSM(R)-501 only). Secondary web sweeps surfaced no ship-specific asbestos claims; generic 'asbestos on Navy ships' listicles assert era-level presence without primary sourcing - excluded by source policy.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 2026-10-02
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1944 hull built at a wartime emergency yard sits squarely in the Navy's documented asbestos era, and ship-specific documentation may exist in undigitized records (BuShips construction specifications, receiving-yard work packages at Terminal Island). The two NARA action reports, the casualty-report file, and the muster-roll microfilm are unexamined leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-66-lsm66-10