Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]research packet 680-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-492-lst492-pkt-680-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, LST-492 - construction, sponsor, commissioning, theater assignments, campaigns, decommission/stricken/sale, battle stars (live NHHC page verified 2026-10-02) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS LST-492 entry, full text
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down 3 August 1943 at Evansville, Ind., by the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.; launched 30 September 1943, sponsored by Mrs. John A. Spruill; commissioned 8 December 1943. Assigned to the European theater - invasion of Normandy June 1944 and invasion of southern France (August-September 1944; the DANFS text prints '1945,' a typographical error - see ev-02 campaign table and gaps); then Asiatic-Pacific theater - assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, May and June 1945. Occupation duty in the Far East until early December 1945. Decommissioned 17 June 1946; struck from the Navy list 23 June 1947; sold 24 February 1948 to Green's Bayou Transporters, Houston, Tex., for non-self-propelled operation. LST-492 earned three battle stars for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943-1948
- Population
- MVB&I construction trades (1943); crew (1943-46); embarked troops; buyer's conversion workers (1948)
- Limitations
- Official ship-history narrative; contains no asbestos or material content. The entry's 'August and September 1945' for southern France is a typographical error - the documented campaign window is 15 August - 13 September 1944 (NavSource campaign table; the operation ended a year earlier). Does not establish asbestos presence, exposure, or quantity.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-492-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-492 - reduced/full commission timeline, campaign table, flotilla assignment, commanding-officer list, specifications, disposition (live page verified 2026-10-02; last updated 26 January 2024) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/16/160492.htm - header block, campaign table, commanding-officers list, specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline and spec block for this hull: LST-491-class tank landing ship; laid down 3 August 1943 at Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Co., Evansville, IN; launched 30 September 1943; accepted by the US Navy and placed in reduced commission 21 November 1943 for transit to her fitting-out yard; placed in full commission as USS LST-492, 8 December 1943, LT. R. M. Newman USNR in command. Campaign table: Invasion of Normandy 6-25 June 1944; Invasion of southern France 15 August - 13 September 1944; Okinawa Gunto operation (assault and occupation) 26 May - 30 June 1945. In the Asiatic-Pacific theater under LST Flotilla Thirty-Nine (CAPT. D. H. Johnston), LST Group One Hundred-Five (CDR. E. P. Wilson), LST Division Two Hundred-Nine. Occupation service in the Far East 20 September - 7 December 1945. Decommissioned 17 June 1946; struck from the Naval Register 23 June 1947; sold 24 February 1948 to Green's Bayou Transporters, Houston TX for non-self-propelled operations; 'Final Disposition, fate unknown.' Specifications: 1,625 t light / 4,080 t full (seagoing draft w/1,675-ton load) / 2,366 t beaching; 328 ft o.a., 50 ft beam; 11.6 kt trial; endurance 24,000 mi @ 9 kt at 3,960 t; complement 13 officers + 104 enlisted; troop accommodations 16 officers + 147 enlisted; 2 LCVP; cargo 1,600-1,900 tons; armament ultimate design 2 twin + 4 single 40 mm, 12 single 20 mm; propulsion two General Motors 12-567A 900-hp diesels, single Falk main reduction gear, three diesel-drive 100 kW 230 V D.C. ship's-service generators, two propellers, 1,700 shp, twin rudders. Commanding officers: LT R. M. Newman USNR (21 Nov 1943 - Jan 1945); LTjg William Brockholst Provost Jr. USNR (Jan 1945 - Feb 1946); LTjg Clyde Earl Crowder USN (Feb 1946 - 17 Jun 1946). A veteran-contributed narrative on the page (Art Aregoni, USS LST-492 and USS LST-1010) recounts October 1944 shuttle runs carrying RAF/USAF troops and equipment from Bastia, Corsica to Livorno (Leghorn), Italy in support of the northern Italian campaign, a storm-driven diversion toward Naples, and PT-supply delivery runs to Oran before sailing for the United States - carried as attributed recollection, not load-bearing for any milestone.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943-1948
- Population
- MVB&I construction trades (1943); crew 13 officers/104 enlisted + embarked troops (16 officers/147 enlisted capacity), 1943-46; Green's Bayou Transporters conversion workers (1948)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation tracking NVR/DANFS milestones - not a primary registry; contains no asbestos content. The Aregoni passage is veteran recollection hosted on the page - secondary. 'Fate unknown' after the 1948 commercial sale is an honest unknown, not a scrapping record; sibling-hull pages (LST-584, LST-721) show the same buyer acquiring multiple LSTs for non-self-propelled operation - a documented buyer pattern, but this hull's post-sale fate remains undocumented. The fitting-out yard is not named. Does not establish asbestos presence, exposure, or quantity.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-492-02
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[4]The National WWII Museum digital collections, 'German POWs being loaded onto LST-492, Omaha Beach, 1944' - Gift of James A. Douglas, accession 1994.011.001 (live record verified 2026-10-02) [museum_official]
- Locator
- ww2online.org image record, accession 1994.011.001; unit search field_unit:LST-492 returns this single record
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Museum-held photographs (two images, accession 1994.011.001) document German prisoners of war being loaded aboard USS LST-492 at Omaha Beach on 8 June 1944 (D+2). The collection record states donor James A. Douglas served aboard LST-492 in the European and Pacific theaters: present at the Normandy invasion, at Omaha Beach on D+2; after trips between Southampton and Normandy the ship went to the Mediterranean for the southern-France invasion, then to the United States, through the Panama Canal, and was at Okinawa when the war ended; Douglas traveled aboard the LST to Japanese ports after the war. Unit-level museum cataloging confirms this hull's documented crew population in both theaters.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- LST-492 crew (ETO/PTO service); embarked personnel and POWs handled on deck
- Limitations
- Photographic/collection record - physical-presence and crew documentation, not a work or material record; contains no asbestos content. The two photographs are cataloged under one accession record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-492-03
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[5]Ohio University Libraries, Cornelius Ryan WWII papers, box 016, folder 05: William Brockholst Provost, Jr. - D-Day questionnaire and 26 April 1958 letter (FromThePage transcription; live verified 2026-10-02) [other_primary]
- Locator
- FromThePage folder transcription, pages 1-5 (questionnaire + letter)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Firsthand archival account by this hull's executive officer: LTjg William B. Provost Jr. (later her commanding officer, Jan 1945 - Feb 1946, per the NavSource CO list) answered the Cornelius Ryan D-Day questionnaire for USS LST-492: 'The ship carried an assault load to Utah Beach on 6 June 1944' (arrival Utah Beach 0600); while offloading off Utah she was ordered to Omaha about noon 6 June for a possible evacuation and to assist with the wounded - the beachmaster's report to the boat officer was 'There are no casualties. These men are all dead.'; he also recalled the demolition of a Rhino ferry after it had offloaded about 40% of their combat load and passengers, and a minesweeper (he believed the sunk ship was Pheasant and the rescue ship Tide) delivering survivors from a sunk sister ship. Signed letter, CDR W. B. Provost USN, Oxford Ohio, 26 April 1958.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944 (events); 1958 (document)
- Population
- LST-492 officers and crew on D-Day; bridge watchstanders
- Limitations
- Veteran's firsthand recollection (1958 questionnaire) held in a university archive - ship-specific presence/operations documentation; contains no asbestos content and establishes no exposure. The 'sunk sister ship / Pheasant / Tide' recollection is the officer's own identification ('I believe'), unverified.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-492-04
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[6]ShipbuildingHistory (Tim Colton), 'Missouri Valley Bridge, Evansville IN' yard table - hull 47 = LST-492 (laid 8/3/43, launched 9/30/43, delivered 12/8/43; 58 days on ways, 69 in water, 127 total); yard history notes (live verified 2026-10-02) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Missouri Valley Bridge yard table, row 47; yard-history header paragraph
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The builder's production table independently corroborates this hull's build record: Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co. yard hull no. 47, pennant LST-492, laid 8/3/1943, launched 9/30/1943, delivered 12/8/1943 (58 days on the ways, 69 days in water, 127 days total). Yard context documented by the same reference: the Evansville shipyard on the Ohio River was built for the war effort, produced 171 LSTs (plus LCTs, lighters and seaplane derricks at the company's Leavenworth KS plant), closed after the war, and the plant was destroyed by fire in 1946.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943 (build); 1942-1946 (yard)
- Population
- MVB&I Evansville yard workforce (1942-45)
- Limitations
- Reputable secondary reference (Colton's shipbuildinghistory tables), not a primary registry. Its 'Scrapped 1947' disposition column for this hull conflicts with the documented 24 February 1948 sale to Green's Bayou Transporters - carried as a conflict in gaps, not asserted. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-492-05
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[7]NARA motion-picture record, 'Invasion of France: Landing of Equipment and Evacuation of Wounded,' National Archives ID 77074, local ID 428-NPC-4352, Department of the Navy (metadata transcribed via NavSource photo caption) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA NAID 77074 / local ID 428-NPC-4352 (RG 428-NPC Navy film); NavSource 10/16/160492.htm photo caption 1016049219
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A National Archives-held Department of the Navy film includes footage of USS LST-492 and HM LST-402 moored at Mulberry Harbor A off the Omaha beachhead between 11 and 19 June 1944 (the artificial harbor operated only 11-19 June before storm damage ended its use) - wartime film documentation placing this hull at the Normandy anchorage in the documented invasion window.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-06-11 to 1944-06-19
- Population
- LST-492 crew during the Normandy anchorage window
- Limitations
- Archival lead only: catalog.archives.gov is JS-rendered and could not be fetched this session - NAID and local-ID metadata transcribed via the NavSource photo caption (frame credited 'David Upton'). A film frame establishes presence at Mulberry A, not any work, material, or exposure fact.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-492-06
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[8]Woolsey v. Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co., 119 Ind. App. 391, 88 N.E.2d 54 (Ind. App. Ct. 1949), No. 17,878, decided 17 October 1949 (opinion text verified live via Justia) [court_record]
- Locator
- Justia full opinion text; docket no. 17,878; reporter cite 119 Ind. App. 391, 88 N.E.2d 54
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Occupational-disease litigation against this hull's builder reached adjudication in the wartime LST-production era: the widow/family of pipe fitter Elbert Woolsey - employed by Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron 'in the compartment of ships' from 21 June to 11 November 1944 - claimed death (29 October 1945) from inhaled fumes and gases of galvanized metal being welded, under the Indiana Workmen's Occupational Diseases Act. The Industrial Board found the decedent was not exposed to and did not contract an occupational disease in that employment; the Indiana Appellate Court affirmed the award (no substitution of judgment on the evidence). Documents the builder's litigation landscape: claims were brought and adjudicated, and the alleged agent in this case was welding fume, not asbestos.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944 (employment); 1949 (opinion)
- Population
- MVB&I Evansville shipyard trades (pipe fitters, welders), 1944
- Limitations
- Yard-level litigation that does not name any hull; NOT an asbestos case - the alleged agent was galvanized-metal welding fume, and the merits outcome was a defense win at Board level, affirmed on appeal. Woolsey's employment window (June-November 1944) postdates this hull's delivery (December 1943) - his work was on later Evansville hulls. Included to characterize the builder's documented occupational-disease record, not as exposure evidence for LST-492. Companion case located but not separately rowed: Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co. v. Alsip, 63 N.E.2d 297 (Ind. App. 1945) - injury-compensation, not asbestos.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-492-07
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[9]Era inference built on: NavSource specifications (2 x GM 12-567A diesels, Falk reduction gear, no boilers); BuShips SD-1945 v2 design grouping (LST-491 group) per the lst-1-class profile; GAO HRD-80-2 Navy asbestos-use era documentation (ev-uss-lst-492-08) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource propulsion/spec block; BuShips SD-1945 v2 LST-491 design group; GAO HRD-80-2 product page
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel-powered tank landing ship built August-December 1943 at Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron's wartime Evansville yard sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-shipbuilding era. Era-standard applications aboard an LST of this type and period: diesel-exhaust lagging and gaskets on the two GM 12-567A engines, engine-room thermal/acoustic insulation, deck coverings and tile, bulkhead and accommodation-space insulation, valve and flange gaskets on piping systems, and machinery packing. The diesel plant carries no boilers - the boiler/turbine steam-lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943-1948
- Population
- MVB&I construction trades (1943); crew (1943-46); fitting-out yard trades (1943-44); Green's Bayou Transporters conversion workers (1948)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation schedule, material list, survey, or work package located for LST-492. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials; no quantity; no manufacturer attribution for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-492-08
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[10]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 (1943) and service era (1943-46 Naval service; commercial disposition 1948).
- 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; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch, confirmed 2026-10-02) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-492-09
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[11]Batch-6998 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS; NavSource amphibious archive; shipbuildinghistory yard table; National WWII Museum digital collections; Ohio University Libraries (Cornelius Ryan papers); NARA catalog; GAO; CourtListener API v4 (opinions + RECAP dockets); secondary web sweeps; NIOSH check [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-492-01 through sl-uss-lst-492-15
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum documentation, or litigation naming USS LST-492 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener (authenticated API v4, 2026-10-02): opinion searches '"LST-492"' and '"LST 492" OR "LST-492"' returned 0 results; a RECAP docket search returned 1 hit - D.A.B. Group LLC, Bankr. S.D.N.Y. docket 14-12057, a hotel-construction bankruptcy whose exhibit documents contain an unrelated 'LST' token - inspected and classified name collision, not qualifying. Web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case; the only 'asbestos' material naming the Evansville yard or LSTs generally is law-firm jobsite listicles (freeasbestostesting.com, asbestos-attorney.com and similar) asserting asbestos 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 - the hull was sold into non-self-propelled commercial service in 1948 and its fate is unknown, so any post-Navy condition record is undocumented regardless. Deck logs (RG 24), fitting-out work packages, and any conversion records are undigitized leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-492-10