Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet 663-packet.md [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lst-335-lst335-pkt-663-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, LST-335 (NHHC official entry; live page returned 404 on 2026-10-02, cited via Wayback capture 2024-05-26 of the canonical NHHC URL) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS 'LST-335' entry body (archived capture of canonical page)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS documents this hull: laid down 17 July 1942 at the Norfolk Navy Yard; launched 15 October 1942, sponsored by Mrs. B. V. McCandlish; commissioned 6 December 1942. Assigned to the European theater; operations: Sicilian occupation July 1943, Salerno landings September 1943, Invasion of Normandy June 1944. Decommissioned 22 December 1945; struck from the Navy list 8 January 1946; sold to James A. Hughes, New York, N.Y., on 1 December 1947 for scrapping. Earned three battle stars for WWII service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- Ship's company (13 officers / ~104 enlisted) plus embarked troops
- Limitations
- Official ship history - establishes identity, build, operations, and disposal only. Contains no asbestos or material content. The live NHHC URL 404s as of 2026-10-02 (NHHC link rot, same as Batch-01 finding); the Wayback capture of the official page is cited and labeled archived.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-335-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-335 page - milestone timeline, specifications block, campaign table, commanding officers, and beaching photograph [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/16/160335.htm header block, specifications block, campaign table, CO table, photo caption
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource records: laid down 17 July 1942 at Norfolk Navy Yard; launched 15 October 1942; commissioned USS LST-335, 6 December 1942, LT. Gordon Raymond in command; Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater campaigns - Sicilian occupation 9 to 15 July 1943, Salerno landings 9 to 21 September 1943, Invasion of Normandy 6 to 25 June 1944; decommissioned 22 December 1945; struck from the Naval Register 8 January 1946; transferred to the Maritime Commission 1 December 1947; final disposition - sold for scrapping 1 December 1947 to James A. Hughes, New York, NY. Specifications: 1,625 t light / 4,080 t full load / 2,366 t beaching; 328 ft oa; 50 ft beam; 11.6 kt trial; 2 x General Motors 12-567A 900 hp diesels, single Falk main reduction gears, 2 propellers 1,700 shp, 3 diesel-drive 100 kW 230V DC ship's service generators; complement 13 officers/104 enlisted; troop accommodations 16 officers/147 enlisted. Commanding officers: LT Gordon Raymond (Dec 1942 - Mar 1943), LT Herbert R. Roberts USNR (Mar 1943 - Feb 1945), LT Dwight G. Tabler USNR (Feb - Jun 1945), LT Bernard R. Coles USN (Jun - 30 Nov 1945). Page photograph shows LST-335 beached at the Dog Green sector / Vierville-sur-Mer (Omaha Beach) circa June 1944, with the ruins of the Wn. 72 bunker behind.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- Ship's company and embarked troops, 1942-1945
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - milestone dates here match DANFS exactly and campaign windows match the Navy EAME campaign list. Live page verified 2026-10-02 (HTTP 200 at navsource.net; navsource.org domain is dead). Contains no asbestos content. The beaching photograph is a contributed print (credited Brian Miller), not a NARA-identified official photo.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-335-02
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[4]HyperWar transcription of US Navy 'Landing Ships/Craft, 1940-1945' (ONI compilation) - LST roster row [other_primary]
- Locator
- ships-ls.html LST-330s table rows
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The ONI-based landing-ship roster lists LST-335 in service 1942-45 with no loss or conversion annotation (surrounding rows carry loss annotations - e.g., LST-333 '22 Jun 43; German torpedo at Dellys, Algeria' and LST-342 '18 Jul 43; torpedoed by IJN Ro-106' - while LST-335's row is clean), corroborating that the hull survived the war intact and was scrapped rather than lost or converted.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1940-1945
- Limitations
- Corroborating roster data only - establishes the ship was not a war loss, says nothing about materials aboard. HyperWar is a transcription mirror of an official ONI compilation, not the original document.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-335-03
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[5]Consolidated era inference - NavSource ship-specific machinery block (2 x GM 12-567A diesels, Falk gears, diesel DC generators; no boilers) + LST-1 design-group construction practice (BuShips Ships' Data 1945 v2 design grouping, class profile lst-1-class verified 2026-09-16) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/16/160335.htm specifications block; class profile ev-lst-1-class-01/-03
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference for this diesel-powered LST: with no boilers, the steam-lagging pathway is absent and asbestos-relevant applications concentrate in GM diesel exhaust lagging and gaskets, engine-room thermal/acoustic insulation, valve packing and gaskets, deck coverings/tile, bulkhead and accommodation insulation, and brake linings on winches and windlass. The design-era federal program reserved asbestos supply for shipbuilding, and 1942 naval-yard construction standardly incorporated asbestos insulation and gasket materials.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1942-1945
- Population
- Construction trades (Norfolk Navy Yard, 1942); engine-room crew; deck machinery operators
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no ship-level asbestos record exists for this hull. Does not establish that specific products were aboard, any quantity, or any individual exposure. BuShips SDB 1945 v2 is the authoritative class machinery source but its shipscribe.com scan URL returned 404 on 2026-10-02, so the design-grouping citation is carried without a live URL.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-335-04
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[6]EPA Superfund site profile, NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD, Portsmouth VA (EPA site VA1170024813, NPL-listed 1999) - operable units include Paradise Creek Disposal Area and Site 19 '1942-54 Landfill' covering the yard's WWII construction era [other_primary]
- Locator
- EPA Cumulis site profile VA1170024813 OU list; NAVFAC Norfolk NSY Site Descriptions (blocked); shipyards.json norfolk-naval-shipyard evidence rows
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- The builder yard (Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth VA) is a federal Superfund site with wartime-era disposal areas receiving remedial action; NAVFAC official site descriptions (blocked to automated fetch, HTTP 403) state that site wastes included asbestos, and the shipyards.json yard record documents the yard's asbestos product list (Thermobestos, Marinite, Transite, Kaylo, gaskets, packing, pipe/boiler insulation, deck coverings) plus a 1979 government inspection finding asbestos-laden floors in Shop 56. This hull was built at the yard in 1942.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1942; 1979; 1999-2010
- Population
- Norfolk Navy Yard construction and overhaul trades, 1940s
- Limitations
- Yard-level documentation only - establishes asbestos use and disposal at the builder yard across its operating era, not that any specific material went into this hull. Asbestos is named in NAVFAC site descriptions but is not a CERCLA contaminant of concern in the 2010 ROD (metals/organics drove the remedy). NAVFAC pages blocked to automated fetch (403); EPA site profile verified live 2026-10-02.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-335-05
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[7]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 403 to automated fetch)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented Navy-wide asbestos-insulation use and worker-protection policy (1975 policy removed asbestos insulation only when damaged or required for repairs; modified 1979 toward selective replacement), with fieldwork that included Norfolk Naval Shipyard. For this hull - scrapped in 1947, before any modern asbestos program existed - the report documents the wartime-construction material era rather than any removal regime applicable to it.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation, not hull- or class-specific; included as era context for WWII naval-shipyard asbestos practice only. Full text blocked to automated fetch (HTTP 403); content via product-page description, per Batch-01 convention. Does not establish asbestos aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-335-06
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[8]Batch-6873 search ledger (this record): DANFS (Wayback capture of live-404 NHHC page); NavSource; HyperWar ONI roster; NVR (excludes pre-1987 disposals); NARA catalog (JS-rendered); va.gov/vetapp BVA search; EPA/NAVFAC yard records; GAO; CourtListener API v4 hull-number sweeps (opinions + RECAP dockets, both count 0) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-335-01 through sl-uss-lst-335-08
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed case naming LST-335 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener API v4 hull-number sweeps returned count 0 on both the opinion index and the RECAP docket index for "LST-335" (2026-10-02). Consistent with the class-level sweep, which located no asbestos docket naming any specific LST hull - the only CourtListener document-level hit across LST sweeps is an incidental reunion-notice mention of LST-579 (Gitto v. A.W. Chesterton, S.D.N.Y. 1:07-cv-04771).
- 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 - 1942 naval-yard construction is consistent with era-standard asbestos insulation. The hull was scrapped in 1947, decades before modern ACM-handling regulation, so no regulated-disposal paper trail was expected. CourtListener coverage is limited to indexed opinion/docket text.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-335-07