Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]research packet 690-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-560-lst560-pkt-690-packet-md
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[2]Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS), 'LST-560' - live NHHC page [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC DANFS LST-560 full entry (live page)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Laid down 22 February 1944 at Evansville, Ind., by the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.; launched 21 April 1944, sponsored by Mrs. L. C. Holm; commissioned 2 May 1944. During World War II assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater: Palawan Island landings (March 1945); Visayan Island landings (March and April 1945); Brunei Bay operation (June 1945). Following the war performed occupation duty in the Far East until mid-October 1945. Decommissioned 17 May 1946; struck from the Navy list 19 June 1946; sold 12 September 1946 to the Construction Power & Merchandising Co., of Brooklyn, N.Y. Earned two battle stars for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Ship's company (13 officers/104 enlisted spec) plus embarked troops
- Limitations
- Authoritative service history; contains no asbestos, insulation, or hazardous-material information. Commissioning date here (2 May 1944) conflicts with NavSource (12 May 1944) - logged in gaps; the shipbuildinghistory yard table and uboat.net agree with DANFS at 2 May.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-560-lst560-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-560 - specification block, campaign table, CO roster, awards, and photo captions [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.net 10/16/160560 - spec block, campaign table, CO roster, awards list, photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- LST-542 Class Tank Landing Ship. Laid down 22 February 1944 by Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Co., Evansville, IN; launched 21 April 1944; commissioned 12 May 1944 (conflicts with DANFS 2 May - logged in gaps), LT. H.T. Holsapple USNR in command. WWII Asiatic-Pacific assignment chain: LST Flotilla Eight (CAPT. E. Watts, USN), LST Group Twenty-two (CDR. E. H. Pope, USN), LST Division Forty-three. Campaign bands: Palawan Island landings 1-2 March 1945; Visayan Island landings 26-31 March and 2-4 April 1945; Brunei Bay operation 10 June 1945. Occupation service in the Far East 24 September - 20 October 1945. Decommissioned 17 May 1946; struck from the Naval Register 19 June 1946; sold 12 September 1946 to Construction Power and Merchandising Co., Brooklyn, N.Y., 'fate unknown'. Two battle stars. Awards: American Campaign Medal; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2); World War II Victory Medal; Navy Occupation Medal (Asia clasp); Philippines Presidential Unit Citation; Philippine Liberation Medal (1). CO roster: LT. Henry Taylor Holsapple USNR (12 May 1944 - 19 September 1945); LT. Charles H. Stewart USNR (19 September - 20 November 1945); LTjg. Richard R. Caldwell USNR (20 November 1945 - ). Specification block: 2 General Motors 12-567A diesels (900 hp each), single Falk main reduction gears, 3 diesel-drive 100 kW 230V D.C. ship's service generators, twin propellers 1,700 shp, twin rudders, 11.6 knots trial, endurance 24,000 miles at 9 kts displacing 3,960 tons, diesel fuel 4,300 bbls - a diesel plant with no boilers. Complement 13 officers / 104 enlisted; troop accommodations 16 officers / 147 enlisted; 2 LCVP; call sign NEUV. Armament (ultimate design): 2 twin 40MM mounts w/Mk. 51 directors, 4 single 40MM, 12 single 20MM. Photo captions document the hull beached at Morotai, Halmahera Islands, 27 May 1945 alongside USS LST-638, and beached at Labuan, Brunei Bay, North Borneo, 10 June 1945 during Operation Oboe 6 (Australian War Memorial photos 108874, 108880, 108883, 108915; US National Archives photo 80-G-49565).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Ship's company (13 officers/104 enlisted spec) plus embarked troops (16 officers/147 enlisted capacity)
- Limitations
- Volunteer-compiled archival page quoting Navy sources; consistent with DANFS where they overlap and more precise on campaign date bands, the CO roster, awards, and specifications. Commissioning date (12 May 1944) conflicts with DANFS, the shipbuildinghistory yard table, and uboat.net (all 2 May 1944) - logged in gaps; its own CO roster start date (12 May) is internally consistent with its commissioning figure. Spec data are equipment descriptions only - no asbestos, insulation, or hazardous-material information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-560-lst560-02
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[4]Australian War Memorial collection photographs naming this hull at Labuan and Morotai - accession records 108874, 108880, 108883, 108915 (Labuan, 10 June 1945) and OG2795 (Morotai, 27 May 1945) [other_primary]
- Locator
- AWM collection records https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/108874 ; /108880 ; /108883 ; /108915 ; /OG2795 (all verified live 2026-10-02)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official Australian government archive records name this hull in place and operation: AWM 108874, 'LABUAN, NORTH BORNEO, 1945-06-10. VEHICLES OF 2/47 TRANSPORT PLATOON, LEAVING THE UNITED STATES LANDING SHIP, TANK (LST) 560, DURING THE OBOE 6 OPERATION' - documents the hull discharging Australian Army 2/47 Transport Platoon vehicles on the Labuan beachhead during the Brunei Bay landing; companion records AWM 108880 (a jeep of 13 Wireless Section (Heavy) towed ashore from LST-560), AWM 108883 (a jeep of 13 Wireless Section (Heavy) moving ashore from LST-560, with identified personnel Sig. K. O'Reilly and Cpl. R.T. Foord), and AWM 108915 (a jeep of 24th Infantry Brigade moving ashore from LST-560) document the same beaching, and AWM OG2795, 'MOROTAI, HALMAHERA ISLANDS, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. 1945-05-27. RAAF SIGNALS UNITS LOADING MANY MILES OF TELEPHONE CABLE ABOARD AN LST (LANDING SHIP, TANK), NO. 638, BOUND FOR LABUAN... IN THE BACKGROUND IS LST NO. 560' - documents this hull beached at Morotai alongside USS LST-638 during staging for the Borneo operation.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- Ship's company; embarked/handled Australian Army units (2/47 Transport Platoon; 13 Wireless Section (Heavy); 24th Infantry Brigade; RAAF Signals units at Morotai)
- Limitations
- Government archival photographic records - document the hull's presence and the embarked/handled units at named places and dates; contain no asbestos, insulation, or hazardous-material information. The Oboe 6 date (10 June 1945) corroborates NavSource's campaign band.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-560-lst560-03
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[5]uboat.net Allied Warships, USS LST 560 (LST 560) - task-organization event detail for the Cebu (Victor II) and Brunei Bay (Oboe VI) operations [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship/11620.html - 'Notable events' sections for 24 March 1945 (Victor II, Task Units 78.2.5 and 78.2.16) and 10 June 1945 (Oboe VI, Task Units 78.1.12 and 78.1.16)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Curated task-organization detail: for the Cebu landings (Operation Victor II), LST-560 (Lt. H.T. Holsapple, USNR) sailed in Task Unit 78.2.5, the LST unit of the Task Group 78.2 Attack Force that departed Leyte about 1800I/24 March 1945 for the beaches south of Cebu City, and returned with the second return echelon Task Unit 78.2.16 which departed 1900I/27 March and arrived Leyte 29 March. For Operation Oboe VI (Brunei Bay, 10 June 1945), LST-560 appears in Task Unit 78.1.12, the LST Unit under T/Capt. H.B. Hudson, USN, and in Task Unit 78.1.16, the 'Brown' Assault Unit. The page also records ordered 2 August 1943; commissioned 2 May 1944; decommissioned 17 May 1946; sold 12 September 1946 - agreeing with DANFS against NavSource's 12 May commissioning figure.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- Ship's company and embarked troops (same operations as ev-02 campaign bands)
- Limitations
- Secondary reference compilation built from wartime orders of battle and action reports; the underlying primary documents were not inspected this session - verification_status partial on that basis. Its Oboe VI organization lists LST-560 within T/Capt. Hudson's task unit while NavSource places the ship in LST Flotilla Eight (CAPT. E. Watts) - Watts's Flotilla Eight ships are grouped separately in the same order of battle, an organizational wrinkle not reconciled here. No asbestos or material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-560-lst560-04
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[6]Corn JK, Starr J. 'Historical perspective on asbestos: policies and protective measures in World War II shipbuilding.' Am J Ind Med 12(4):359-373 (1987) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Am J Ind Med 12(4):359-373 (1987), DOI 10.1002/ajim.4700120402 - DOI resolves live to Wiley
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Peer-reviewed scholarship documents that WWII-era U.S. shipyards extensively installed asbestos-containing insulation, lagging, and gaskets in naval construction - the era in which this hull was built (February-May 1944, at an inland Ohio River 'cornfield' yard mass-producing LSTs). For a diesel-powered LST with no boilers, the era-relevant applications concentrate in diesel engine and exhaust lagging, engine-room thermal/acoustic insulation, gaskets and packing, deck coverings, accommodation insulation, and winch/crane brake linings; the post-1946 breakup (secondary yard table: 'scrapped 1947') would have destroyed or dispersed era material.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1941-1945 (study scope); applied 1944-1947
- Population
- WWII-era shipyard workers (Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co., Evansville, 1944); wartime crew; breakup-yard workers (era context)
- Limitations
- Era-level scholarship plus class/type inference; the source does not name this hull or class and does not establish that any specific material aboard this ship contained asbestos. No ship-specific product is verified; the diesel plant (no boilers) narrows the exposure-relevant scope relative to steam vessels.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-560-lst560-05
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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, Highlights section
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented the Navy's asbestos-protection program at the Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards: the 1975 standing policy removed and replaced with nonasbestos materials only insulation that was damaged or had to be removed for necessary repairs, modified in 1979 toward selectively replacing asbestos insulation in high-maintenance areas. Neither policy could have applied to this hull - she was sold out of Navy service 12 September 1946, roughly 29 years before the first policy issued.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review (not this hull)
- Limitations
- Program-level Navy documentation for era fleet context only; the policies post-date this hull's disposal entirely, so no hull-specific application was possible. Product page and Highlights verified live via Firecrawl 2026-10-02; the linked full-report PDF was not opened (gao.gov blocks direct automated fetches, HTTP 403 by curl).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-560-lst560-06
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[8]Woolsey v. Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co., 88 N.E.2d 54, 119 Ind. App. 391 (Ind. Ct. App., filed 17 October 1949) - CourtListener opinion 3428445 [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener opinion 3428445, lead opinion by Royse, J. (Ind. Ct. App., No. 17,878)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Occupational-disease litigation at this hull's builder during the same wartime production period - NOT an asbestos case. The opinion records that decedent Elbert Woolsey 'was employed by appellee Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Company as a pipe fitter in the compartment of ships from June 21, 1944 to November 11, 1944' - the same Evansville yard that delivered this hull in May 1944, months into the same production year. The claim alleged poisoning from inhaling fumes and gases from galvanized metal being welded; the Industrial Board majority (two members dissenting) found no occupational disease and denied compensation, and the Court of Appeals affirmed. Documents the builder's wartime occupational-disease litigation landscape and a non-asbestos fume pathway in confined ship compartments.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944 (employment); 1949 (opinion)
- Population
- Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron pipefitters and ship-compartment trades, Evansville, 1944 (yard-level)
- Limitations
- Builder-level context only - no ship (including this hull) is named in the opinion, and the claimed agent was galvanized-metal welding fumes, not asbestos. Litigation-stage discipline: the Board's denial was affirmed on appeal - a merits-level negative for that claimant, not exposure evidence; described exactly, not classified upward. The worker's June-November 1944 employment window follows this hull's February-May 1944 build but overlaps the yard's same-year LST production.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-560-lst560-07
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[9]Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library, 'Evansville in WWII' digital collection (Evansville Shipyard photographs; IMLS-funded digitization with the Evansville Museum and University of Southern Indiana) [other_primary]
- Locator
- digital.evpl.org 'Evansville in WWII' collection page (verified live via Firecrawl 2026-10-02); item search 'LST-560' - no results
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A digitized public collection exists for this hull's builder: EVPL's 'Evansville in WWII' archive holds the Evansville Shipyard collection - thousands of wartime photographs and records of the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron shipyard where this hull was built in early 1944. A targeted collection search for 'LST-560' returned no items; the collection is the open archival lead for builder-level construction-era documentation (launch photography, yard labor, compartment work) relevant to era inference.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1942-1945 (collection scope)
- Population
- Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron wartime workforce, Evansville (yard-level)
- Limitations
- Archival lead only - builder-level collection, not a hull record; the CONTENTdm interface is JS-rendered and could not be exhaustively queried by automated fetch; a search on 'LST-560' returned no results. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-560-lst560-08
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[10]NARA RG 24 deck logs and WWII war diary for USS LST-560; US National Archives photo 80-G-49565 (Labuan beaching, cited in NavSource captions); construction-period MVB&I yard records [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov search '80-G-49565' - no results (2026-10-02); RG 24 logbooks remain the untapped primary record
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Hull-specific primary records are expected at the National Archives: RG 24 deck logs (May 1944 - May 1946) and the ship's WWII war diary for LST-560, which would document her Palawan, Visayan, Morotai staging, and Brunei Bay movements day by day; NavSource photo captions additionally cite US National Archives Photo 80-G-49565 (LST-560 beached at Labuan in Brunei Bay, 10 June 1945). A catalog.archives.gov item search for '80-G-49565' returned no results - the print is not item-level digitized - and RG 24 deck logs for this era are not publicly digitized.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1946 (records); 2026-10-02 (access attempt)
- Limitations
- Archival lead only - no NARA record for this hull was opened this session; deck logs and war diaries are administrative records and are not asbestos documentation unless inspected.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-560-lst560-09
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[11]Batch-7073 search ledger (this record): live NHHC DANFS page; NavSource 160560 (+ anecdotal-page check); Australian War Memorial collection; uboat.net; shipbuildinghistory yard table; NVR; NARA catalog; EVPL collection; archive.org; LOC Veterans History Project; GAO product page; shipyards.json cross-check; CourtListener API v4 and site:courtlistener.com web index; general web search [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-560-lst560-01 through sl-uss-lst-560-lst560-18
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or litigation naming USS LST-560 was found in the public sources searched. CAVEAT: the CourtListener API v4 queries (type=o 'LST-560' / 'USS LST-560'; type=r 'LST-560') could not be completed this session - the shared fleet-wide request budget remained exhausted across spaced retries spanning the session (~114/hr pacing, a burst limit not the daily quota) - logged honestly as pending in the search ledger, NOT as a negative result. The site:courtlistener.com web-index cross-check returned only 'LST Brands Inc.'/'Hartford Life (LST)' financial-disclosure entities and reporter-volume-560 pages - no hull reference. A general web sweep for asbestos/lawsuit hits surfaced no qualifying case and no law-firm marketing material naming 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 - a 1944-built LST is era-consistent with asbestos-containing materials. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. CourtListener coverage is an open gap (fleet-paced, not run); state-court and unindexed filings are outside the sweep in any case.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-560-lst560-10