Evidence
6 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-6).
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[1]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-1057 (live page verified with a Googlebot user agent 2026-10-02) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Header, 542-Class Tank Landing Ship list, Specifications, Commanding Officers, and postwar entries
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource identifies USS LST-1057 as an LST-542-class tank landing ship laid down 17 February 1945 at Dravo Corp., Pittsburgh; launched 31 March 1945; and commissioned 7 May 1945 with LT John M. Bunch, USN, in command. Its class specification block gives two General Motors 12-567A 900-hp diesel engines, a Falk reduction gear, two propellers, 1,700 shp, and no steam plant; it lists 13 officers and 104 enlisted and troop accommodations for 16 officers and 147 enlisted.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1945-1952 (as reported)
- Population
- Construction trades; ship's company; embarked personnel
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry. Its page contains an internal decommissioning-date conflict and an internally inconsistent postwar sale/resale chronology. It contains no asbestos documentation and does not establish any possible application was asbestos-containing aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1057-lst1057-01
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[2]NARA NAID 77508421, USS LST-1057 - War Diary, 8/1-31/45 (RG 38; five digitized images) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAID 77508421, images 0568-0571 (downloaded and OCR-read 2026-10-02)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The ship's August 1945 diary documents LST-1057 underway Pearl Harbor-Eniwetok carrying Headquarters and Service Company, 928th U.S. Army Engineering Aviation Regiment (143 personnel and 56 vehicles) for Okinawa; it then records Eniwetok-Saipan transit and a 29 August Saipan-Okinawa convoy under Commander LST Group 98.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1945-08-01 to 1945-08-31
- Population
- Ship's company; 928th Army personnel
- Limitations
- Ship-titled primary operational record. It documents movements and cargo, not construction, repairs, material composition, asbestos, individual exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1057-lst1057-02
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[3]NARA NAID 77543098, USS LST-1057 - War Diary, 9/1-30/45 (RG 38; four digitized images) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAID 77543098, images 0544-0546 (downloaded and OCR-read 2026-10-02)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The September 1945 diary records unloading the 928th Army unit at Okinawa; loading Company B, 440th Signal Heavy Construction Battalion Aviation (196 enlisted personnel, 5 officers, and 85 vehicles); transit to Yokohama to discharge Army cargo; and anchorage at Enoshima Road during typhoon warnings.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1945-09-01 to 1945-09-30
- Population
- Ship's company; Army personnel
- Limitations
- Ship-titled primary operational record. Cargo and movement entries do not identify repair work, material composition, asbestos, individual exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1057-lst1057-03
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[4]NARA NAID 140081935, USS LST-1057 - War Diary, 11/1-30/45 (RG 38; three digitized images) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAID 140081935, images 0816-0818 (downloaded and OCR-read 2026-10-02)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The November 1945 diary records LST-1057 at Tokyo Bay 1-5 November; sailing 6 November for Saipan with LCT-783 and 48 other LSTs; and anchoring at Saipan on 12 November through 30 November.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1945-11-01 to 1945-11-30
- Population
- Ship's company
- Limitations
- Ship-titled primary operational record. It does not document asbestos, repair scope, material composition, individual exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1057-lst1057-04
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[5]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct. 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product-page Highlights (live page verified 2026-10-02)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO reviewed Navy asbestos use in Navy ships and worker-protection efforts at Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards. Its product page describes the Navy's 1975 and 1979 asbestos-insulation removal policies.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1975-1979 policies; report published 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers and Navy vessels reviewed by GAO
- Limitations
- Navy-wide, later-era program documentation, not a record about LST-1057, Dravo, or this hull's 1945-46 service. It supplies context only and does not establish any product, quantity, removal, retention, exposure, or causation aboard this vessel.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1057-lst1057-05
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[6]CourtListener API v4 authenticated-helper sweep, exact-name and hull-number queries [other_primary]
- Locator
- Authenticated helper diagnostic for query USS LST-1057 opinion, 2026-10-02
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No CourtListener result is reported because the required authenticated helper accepted the exact-name request but did not acquire a fleet pacing token during this session's bounded wait; the exact-name and hull-number opinion/docket sweep was not completed.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 2026-10-02
- Limitations
- This is an access/pacing gap, not a no-result finding and not evidence against asbestos exposure or litigation. No anonymous or raw CourtListener request was made; no case is classified from the incomplete sweep.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1057-lst1057-06