Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]DANFS, LST-379 - construction, sponsor, commissioning, European-theater campaigns, Pacific occupation duty, decommissioning, strike, disposal (live NHHC page, HTTP 200 verified 2026-10-02) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS LST-379 entry, full text
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS documents for this hull: laid down 12 December 1942 at Quincy, Mass., by the Bethlehem Steel Co.; launched 6 February 1943, sponsored by Miss Elizabeth Virginia Collins; commissioned 12 February 1943, Lt. John T. Salistean in command. Assigned to the European theater; operations: Sicilian occupation (July 1943), Salerno landings (September 1943), Anzio-Nettuno advanced landings (January through March 1944), Invasion of Normandy (June 1944). Postwar: occupation duty in the Far East in September 1945; decommissioned 28 February 1946; struck from the Navy list 20 March 1946; sold 12 April 1948 to Bethlehem Steel Co., Bethlehem, Pa., and subsequently scrapped. Four battle stars for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1942-1948
- Population
- Construction trades (Bethlehem Fore River, Quincy, 1942-43); ship's company and embarked troops (1943-46)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific official history only; no asbestos or material content. The DANFS entry does not cover the 1945 New Orleans refit, the Pearl Harbor drydocking, or intermediate repair events - those come from the ship's own NARA records (ev-03 through ev-05). Decommissioning port not stated.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-379-lst379-01
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-379 (10/16/160379.htm) - designation timeline, unit assignments, spec block, commanding-officer list, awards, disposal, photo record [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/16/160379.htm header block, campaign table, specifications block, CO table, photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource documents for this hull: LST-1-class tank landing ship laid down 12 December 1942 at Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, MA; launched 6 February 1943; commissioned USS LST-379 12 February 1943, LT. John T. Salistean USN in command. Campaign table with dates: Sicilian occupation 9-15 July 1943; Salerno landings 9-21 September 1943; Anzio-Nettuno advanced landings 21 January-1 March 1944; Invasion of Normandy 6-25 June 1944. Asiatic-Pacific Theater unit assignment: LST Flotilla Thirty-Seven (CAPT. Riley), LST Group One Hundred Nine (CDR. E. W. Wilson USNR), LST Division Two Hundred Seventeen. Occupation service in the Far East 11-23 September 1945. Decommissioned 28 February 1946; struck from the Naval Register 20 March 1946; sold for scrapping 12 April 1948 to Bethlehem Steel Co., Bethlehem, PA. Spec block: 1,625 t light / 4,080 t full / 2,366 t beaching; 328 ft oa x 50 ft; 11.6 kt; 2 x GM 12-567A 900 hp diesels, single Falk main reduction gear, 2 propellers 1,700 shp, 3 x 100 kW DC generators; complement 13 officers / 104 enlisted; troops 16 officers / 147 enlisted; 2 LCVP; radio call sign NCFB. Awards: American Campaign Medal; EAME Campaign Medal (4 battle stars); Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal; WWII Victory Medal; Navy Occupation Medal (Asia clasp). CO table: LT Salistean USN 12 Feb 1943-23 Nov 1943; LT James B. Chase USNR 23 Nov 1943-31 Mar 1945; LT Martin D. Pysmenny USNR 31 Mar 1945-28 Feb 1946. Photos: unloading C Company, 191st Tank Battalion tanks across a pontoon causeway near Salerno 9 September 1943 (US Army Signal Corps III-SC 181221/181222, NARA-held); with HMS Bruiser and USS LST-16 landing at Salerno (SC 181224); beached at Anzio February 1944 alongside USS LST-360; beached probably Normandy June 1944; with USS LST-583 and LCT(6)-707 on deck probably Philippines 1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1942-1948
- Population
- Ship's company (~117) plus embarked troops; 1948 shipbreakers
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - its dates cross-check cleanly against DANFS and the ship's own war diaries, and its unit assignment (Flotilla 37 / Group 109 / Division 217) is corroborated by NHHC's official 1 May 1945 Pacific Fleet organization (sl-09). One photo caption carries a self-inconsistent date - 'Salerno, 9 July 1943' for SC 181224; the Salerno landings were 9 September 1943 and the July date is a caption error (see gaps). Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-379-lst379-02
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[3]NARA NAID 77707179, 'USS LST-379 - War History' (micro serial 159195; RG 38, World War II War Diaries, Other Operational Records and Histories; Roll A2107; 7 images; digitized via Fold3) - ship-produced history dated 29 October 1945, compiled from the ship's war diaries and deck logs [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAID 77707179, images 0062-0068 (downloaded and OCR-read 2026-10-02)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The ship's own postwar-compiled history (all 7 pages OCR-read this session) documents the hull's repair and alteration events verbatim: (1) post-commissioning New York work - 'proceeded to New York on March 18 [1943] where additional repairs and alterations were added to bring it up to six davit specifications'; (2) Palermo 1944 - 'proceeded to Palermo for repairs and alterations by repair ship, USS Delta, preparatory to its departure for the United Kingdom'; (3) London 1944 - 'Docked for repairs and alterations at the U.S. Naval Base, Deptford, London, during the crucial robot "buzz" bomb blitz'; (4) New Orleans 1945 - 'To ready it for Pacific Fleet duties, the ship was completely refitted and overhauled and alterations necessary to bring it up to current LST standards were added by the Gulf Engineering Co. at New Orleans, La.'; (5) San Pedro Bay 1945 - 'Temporary repairs were made to insure seaworthiness of bow by Navy repair ship, ARG 7, in San Pedro Bay, P.I.' after a passing AKA struck the ship in a Tokyo Bay typhoon (18 Sep 1945, bow doors damaged, anchor chain parted); the damage survey found area repair facilities inadequate and routed her home 'for further repairs or final disposition'. Combat record per the same document: Licata Sicily landings with LCVP casualty (1 dead, 9 missing Army) and strafing (3 Navy + 14 Army wounded); Salerno Green Beach landing under shellfire with an 88mm shell hit in the flag bag (2 Navy enlisted killed; 3 Navy officers, 10 Navy and 1 Army enlisted wounded); Anzio H-hour landing and 24 supply runs under repeated attack; Normandy Gold-area/Jig-Beach landing of British troops, 19 London-Southampton-to-beach turnaround trips, salvage assist to mine-damaged USS LST-359; December 1944 preparation for transfer to the British Navy (plans altered, eliminated from the exchange list); LCT 707 carried to the Pacific and launched in Tokyo Bay 14 September 1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943-1945
- Population
- Ship's company and embarked troops (1943-45); yard/repair-ship trades at New York, Palermo (USS Delta), Deptford, New Orleans (Gulf Engineering/Todd Johnson), Pearl Harbor, San Pedro Bay (ARG-7)
- Limitations
- Ship-produced primary narrative; OCR extraction is clean and the load-bearing yard-event sentences were read in full. It documents the yard events and their dates, NOT the work content - no materials itemized, no 'asbestos' anywhere in the document, no contractor scope for the New Orleans refit beyond Gulf Engineering's name. Casualty figures differ from the Salistean oral history (see ev-06 and gaps).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-379-lst379-03
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[4]NARA NAID 134193967, 'USS LST-379 - War Diary, 2/12/43 to 5/6/43' (micro serial 49588; RG 38 war diaries; Roll A344; 11 images; digitized via Fold3) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAID 134193967, images 0637-0647 (downloaded and OCR-read 2026-10-02)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The commissioning-period war diary (all 11 pages OCR-read this session) documents the hull's fitting-out: commissioned 1618, 12 February 1943, 'Moored to Fitting Out Dock, Fore River Shipbuilding, Quincy, Mass.,' the ship 'undergoing completion, repairs receiving stores and commissioning allowance'; then 'Moored Navy Yard, Charleston [Charlestown], Massachusetts' with the ship 'undergoing extensive alterations and completing fitting out' carrying out Cominch letter Ser. 090 of 5 February 1943; shakedown out of Boston and in Chesapeake Bay with LST Training Group 'Nike' (LSTs 350(F), 344, 345, 346, 349, 351, 352, 358, 360, 370, 377, 378, 379, 400); cargo load at NOB Norfolk; then New York 20 March-13 April 1943 'Undergoing repairs and alterations. Having installed four additional Dravo Type boat davits, V.&M. Bofors single-barrel mount and magazine for same, skids and launching ways for LCT' - with LCT-305, one LCM and four LCVPs loaded as deck cargo; Army bridge pontoons loaded at NSD Bayonne, N.J.; departed for North Africa (Bermuda, Casablanca, Port Lyautey, Bougie).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943-02-12 to 1943-05-06
- Population
- Ship's company; Boston Navy Yard (Charlestown) and New York fitting-out trades (Feb-Apr 1943)
- Limitations
- Primary ship-produced record; documents that alterations were performed at the Boston Navy Yard (Charlestown) and at New York, not the materials used. The New York work location is described by anchorage (Red Hook Flats) and activity - no New York contractor or yard name appears. No asbestos or material content. This diary adds a Boston Navy Yard alteration period that the War History summary does not mention.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-379-lst379-04
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[5]NARA NAID 140075372, 'USS LST-379 - War Diary, 4/1/1945 to 5/31/45' (RG 38 war diaries; Roll A1692; 10 images; digitized via Fold3) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAID 140075372, images 0399-0408 (downloaded and OCR-read 2026-10-02)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The April-May 1945 war diary (all 10 pages OCR-read this session) documents the New Orleans refit verbatim: 'Drydocked in Todd Johnson Dry Dock No. 2-3, New Orleans, La., undergoing repairs and approved alterations... Repairs and alterations are being made by the Gulf Engineering Co., Desire Street Wharf, New Orleans, La.', authorized under Commander Amphibious Training, U.S. Atlantic Fleet letter FE 25/L9-3 Serial No. 01631 of 22 March 1945, with ship movements governed by the Industrial Manager, Eighth Naval District - a scheduled rotation among Gulf Engineering (Desire St.), river trials, the deperming station, Naval Supply Depot, Florida Avenue Wharf, NOB-Commissioning Detail, and Naval Ammunition Depot (1-18 April 1945); LCT 707 secured topside 14 April; departed South Pass, Mississippi River, 18 April for the Canal Zone (Coco Solo/NSD berth, Panama Canal transit), then unescorted to Pearl Harbor. In May: a material inspection aboard by CDR H. A. Adams Jr.'s board (ComAdComPhibPac memo of 29 April 1945); on 26 May 'Secured in drydock YFD # 2, Pearl Harbor, T.H., for repairs on seams and holes in void tanks', afloat 27 May to West Loch Berth Tare 9, with auxiliary engines undergoing repairs 28-31 May.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1945-04-01 to 1945-05-31
- Population
- Ship's company; Gulf Engineering Co. and Todd Johnson Dry Dock trades, New Orleans (Mar-Apr 1945); Eighth Naval District facilities; Pearl Harbor YFD-2 drydock crew (May 1945)
- Limitations
- Primary ship-produced record; documents the refit/drydock events and their administrative authority but not the work content - no materials itemized, no 'asbestos,' no work-package detail beyond facility names. Gulf Engineering Co. (Desire Street Wharf) and Todd Johnson Dry Docks were private New Orleans yards working under Eighth Naval District contract; neither is a shipyards.json entry.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-379-lst379-05
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[6]NARA NAID 278493986, oral-history digest: 'Salistean, Lieutenant John T., USN, Topic; Salerno Invasion, USS LST-379, Date of Action: September 1943, Recorded on 20 January 1945' (RG 38, WWII Oral Histories, Interviews and Statements; 1 image; digitized) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAID 278493986, image 2990147-24-18-0001 (downloaded and OCR-read 2026-10-02)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The recorded-interview digest of this hull's first commanding officer documents the Salerno assault from the bridge: approach behind minesweepers past Agropoli under German shellfire; assigned 'Blue Beach' on the right of the assault area; pontoon ship LST-389 beached but unable to unload; USS Russell (DD) called in for fire support; LST-379 took over the pontoons on Green Beach and commenced unloading while shelled - 'One shell that hit killed 3, wounded about 17 including self and executive officer'; cargo was General Mark Clark's Fifth Army personnel. The digest names LT Salistean as Commanding Officer of USS LST-379.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943-09
- Population
- Ship's company and embarked Fifth Army troops (Sep 1943)
- Limitations
- Ship-produced primary record (official digest of the CO's recorded statement); casualty figures differ from the ship's 1945 War History ('killed 3, wounded about 17' here vs '2 Navy enlisted killed; 3 officers + 11 enlisted wounded' in the war history) - unresolved discrepancy between two ship-produced sources, flagged in gaps. Beach nomenclature also differs (assigned Blue Beach; took over pontoons on Green Beach; war history says landed on Green Beach). No asbestos or material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-379-lst379-06
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[7]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 2 (1945), LST design table (shipscribe.com scan, verified live HTTP 200); NavSource LST-379 spec block; lst-1-class class profile (class-f worktree, 2026-09-16) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB 1945 v2 LST design table; NavSource 160379.htm specifications block; NARA file units cited at ev-03/04/05
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era inference for this hull: the LST-1 design group ran a diesel plant (2 x GM 12-567A diesels, 900 hp each, single Falk main reduction gear, twin screws, 1,700 shp - BuShips design table and this hull's NavSource spec block) with no boilers, so the steam-plant lagging pathway of boiler vessels does not apply. Asbestos-relevant applications aboard a 1942-43 diesel landing ship of this type were the era-standard set - diesel-exhaust and machinery-space lagging, gaskets and packing, accommodation thermal insulation, deck coverings - and this hull's documented record of repeated yard work (Boston Navy Yard alterations 1943; New York davit/Bofors installs 1943; USS Delta availability at Palermo 1944; Deptford docking 1944; the Gulf Engineering/Todd Johnson 'completely refitted and overhauled' New Orleans availability 1945; Pearl Harbor YFD-2 drydocking 1945; ARG-7 repair availability 1945) means the hull saw more documented yard disturbance than a typical unrefitted LST, all inside the Navy's asbestos-use era.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1942-1948
- Population
- Bethlehem Fore River construction trades (1942-43); ship's company/embarked troops (1943-46); yard and repair-ship trades at the documented availabilities; 1948 shipbreakers
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material schedule, or work package was located for LST-379. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials; no quantities; no manufacturer attribution. Documented yard events establish disturbance opportunity, not asbestos content; none of the sources read says 'asbestos.'
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-379-lst379-07
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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 construction (1942-43), both theaters of service, every documented availability (1943 Boston/New York, 1944 Palermo/Deptford, 1945 New Orleans/Pearl Harbor/San Pedro Bay), and her 1948 scrapping.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch, reconfirmed 2026-10-02) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-379-lst379-08
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[9]CourtListener API v4 search endpoint (api/rest/v4/search, authenticated via fleet-paced helper cl-auth-search.py), opinion and docket indexes - zero qualifying hits; no docketed item to cite [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-379-lst379-10 through -13
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation located: exact-phrase "LST-379" returned 0 in the opinion index AND 0 in the docket index; "LST 379" asbestos in opinions returned 0; "USS LST-379" in opinions returned 0. No docketed case or opinion naming this hull. (Fleet pacing gate delayed the last three queries ~50 minutes; all completed the same session.)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 2026-10-02
- Limitations
- CourtListener indexes published opinions and RECAP dockets - state-court filings, unreported settlements, MDL-875 pleading-level vessel lists, and non-digitized dockets are outside coverage. A zero qualifying result means no located docketed case/opinion naming this hull, not proof none exists.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-379-lst379-09
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[10]Batch-6919 search ledger (this record): DANFS; NavSource; NARA catalog + three file units read in full (war history, two war diaries) plus the CO's oral-history digest; NHHC Pacific Fleet organization 1 May 1945; BuShips SDB 1945 v2; GAO product page; CourtListener API; NIOSH HHE check; NVR; secondary web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-379-lst379-01 through -17
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, material schedule, or qualifying case naming USS LST-379 was found in the public sources searched. The hull's primary-record coverage is unusually good for the type - a ship-compiled war history plus digitized war diaries and action reports for most of 1943-45 - and it documents seven distinct yard/repair events aboard this hull, but no primary source read names asbestos aboard this hull.
- 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 - wartime construction at Bethlehem Fore River and the documented 1943-45 availabilities sit squarely inside the Navy's asbestos-use era. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-379-lst379-10
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[11]NARA catalog, "LST-379" - 293 file units (fuzzy relevance; ~25 ship-titled units): war history NAID 77707179 (read); war diaries covering most months Feb 1943-Aug 1945 incl. NAIDs 134193967 and 140075372 (read); action reports NAID 135897987 (Sicily, 7/10/43), NAID 78168507 (Op AVALANCHE/Salerno), NAID 78347768 (Anzio 1/21-25/44), NAID 78477626 (Normandy 6/6/44); oral history NAID 278493986 (read) [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov "LST-379" result set (pages 1-3 reviewed); NAID file-unit pages listed above
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Primary archive coverage for this hull is digitized and unusually broad: besides the four file units read this session, ship-titled war diaries exist for 5/43, 6/43, 7/43, 8/43, 9/43, 10/1-15/43, 10/16-31/43, 11/43, 12/43, 1/44, 2/44, 3/44, 4/44, 5-6/44, 7/44, 8/44, 9/44, 10/44, 5-6/45, 7/45, 8/45, and combat action reports for Sicily (10 July 1943), AVALANCHE/Salerno, Anzio (21-25 Jan 1944), and Normandy (6 June 1944) - all Fold3-digitized and unfollowed. The unread units would further detail the documented availabilities (e.g. the May-June 1944 diary covering the Normandy turnarounds and any Deptford docking detail; the 7-8/45 diaries covering San Pedro Bay/ARG-7). WWII deck logs proper for this hull are not in the digitized deck-log program checked; RG 181 work-package records for the documented availabilities (Boston NY, Gulf Engineering, YFD-2) are an open archival lead.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- Ship's company (1943-46); researchers
- Limitations
- Archival-lead row: the unread diaries and action reports were enumerated in the catalog but not opened; no casualty-report or BuPers file unit was surfaced for this hull in catalog results (unlike sister LST-790's NAID 472241654). War-diary months not surfaced for this hull include 3-4/43 (covered by the 2/12-5/6/43 consolidated diary), 11/44-12/44, 1-3/45 (New Orleans refit period - narrative covered instead by the ship's War History), and 9/45-2/46 (post-occupation wind-down/decommissioning).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-379-lst379-11