Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet 706-packet.md (2 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lst-66-lst66-pkt-706-packet-md
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[2]Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS), LST-66 entry - NHHC live page verified 2026-10-02 [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS LST-66 entry, full entry text
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS records: laid down 14 August 1942 at Jeffersonville, Ind., by Jeffersonville Boat & Machine Co.; launched 16 January 1943; sponsored by Mrs. A. C. Landwehr; commissioned 12 April 1943, Lt. Howard E. White, USCG, in command. Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater; operations listed: Cape Gloucester (Dec 1943-Feb 1944), Admiralty Islands (Feb-Apr 1944), Saidor (Jan-Feb 1944), Hollandia (Apr-May 1944), Toem-Wakde-Sarmi, Biak, Noemfoor, Cape Sansapor, Morotai (1944), Leyte (Oct-Nov 1944), Lingayen Gulf (Jan 1945), Mindanao (Mar 1945), Balikpapan (Jul 1945). Decommissioned 26 March 1946; struck from the Navy list 1 May 1946; sold 7 April 1948 to Kaiser Co., Inc., Seattle, Wash., for scrapping. Earned eight battle stars and the Navy Unit Commendation.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1942-1948
- Limitations
- Official Navy history source; contains no asbestos, materials, or industrial-hygiene content. Sponsor initial conflicts with the USCG Historian's Office file (A. C. vs A. D. Landwehr) - carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-66-01
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[3]U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office, USS LST-66 ship file (LST files, CG Historian's Office; sources listed: CG 'The Coast Guard At War', Vol. V, 1949; DANFS Vol. VII) - ARCHIVED COPY: live uscg.mil URL returns HTTP 403; cited from Wayback Machine capture 2017-05-07 [museum_official]
- Locator
- LST_66.pdf pp. 1-3 (data sheet + history), Wayback capture 2017-05-07
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- USCG Historian's Office ship-specific data file: Coast Guard-manned; commissioned with 8 officers and 66 enlisted USCG(R); sponsored by Mrs. A. D. Landwehr; proceeded down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, dry-docked New Orleans 15 May 1943; sailed 21 May 1943 for Brisbane via Panama Canal, arrived 1 August 1943; assigned LST Flotilla 7, Seventh Fleet 10 October 1943, then Group 21/Division 41 on 1 February 1944. Dated operation log: Finschafen 25 Oct 1943; Lee 7 Dec 1943; Cape Gloucester 26 Dec 1943 (two killed, seven wounded by bomb near-misses; credited with three Japanese planes); Saidor 19 Jan 1944; Seeadler Harbor 9 Mar 1944; Tanah Merah Bay 23 Apr 1944; Aitape 16 May 1944; Wakde 19 May 1944; Biak 8 Jun 1944; Noemfoor 16 Jul 1944; Cape Sansapor 30 Jul 1944; Morotai Sep 1944; Leyte assault 20 Oct 1944; kamikaze crash on boat deck starboard aft 12 Nov 1944 (file states eight men killed, 14 wounded); Lingayen 11 Jan 1945; Zamboanga 10 Mar 1945; Balikpapan Jul 1945. Departed Manila 7 Nov 1945, arrived San Francisco 19 Dec 1945; decommissioned at Mare Island 26 March 1946 with Coast Guard crew removed. Eight battle stars and Navy Unit Commendation.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- USCG/USCGR crew (commissioning complement 74; wartime ~110); embarked troops
- Limitations
- Official USCG historical file; contains no asbestos or materials content. Kamikaze casualty figure ('eight men killed and wounding 14') counts differently than the CG's own Long Blue Line features (which describe four shipmates plus Army dead) - variant carried in gaps. Sponsor initial differs from DANFS - carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-66-02
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[4]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-66 page - live verified 2026-10-02 (navsource.net domain) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource USS LST-66 page (archives/10/16/160066.htm), spec block + awards + commanding officers table + photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource archive page: LST-1-class tank landing ship, Jeffersonville Boat and Machine Co.; laid down 14 Aug 1942, launched 16 Jan 1943, commissioned 12 Apr 1943 (Lt. Howard E. White, USCGR); 'manned by the US Coast Guard' during WWII; LST Flotilla Eleven, Group Thirty-One, Division Sixty-One; campaign table matches DANFS; awards incl. two Combat Action Ribbons, NUC, eight Asiatic-Pacific battle stars, Philippine PUC and Liberation medals; personnel awards: Silver Star (Joseph Gerczak SM3/c USCGR, posthumous), Bronze Stars with 'V' (Peter Chase PHM2/c, LCDR Howard E. White, Robert Goldman PHM2/1c), Purple Hearts (7 KIA / 13 WIA). Specifications: 1,625 t light / 4,080 t full / 2,366 t beaching; 328 ft oa; 50 ft beam; 11.6 kt; two GM 12-567A diesels (900 hp each), single Falk main reduction gear, three 100 kW diesel ship's-service generators, two propellers (1,700 shp), twin rudders; complement 13 officers/104 enlisted, troops 16 officers/147 enlisted. Decommissioned 26 Mar 1946, struck 1 May 1946, sold for scrapping 7 Apr 1948 to Kaiser Co., Seattle. Photo captions document NARA holdings incl. 'US National Archives LST-66 War Diary, Identifier 78270636'.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1942-1948; page updated 2021-08-20
- Limitations
- Reputable volunteer archive, not an official source; spec block and campaign dates corroborate DANFS/CG file. No asbestos content. Flotilla listing (Flotilla 11) differs from the CG file's narrative (Flotilla 7) - reassignment history carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-66-03
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[5]USCG Historian's Office (William H. Thiesen, Atlantic Area Historian), 'The Long Blue Line: Robert Goldman and the LST-66 kamikaze crash' (17 Feb 2022) - live verified 2026-10-02; corroborated by MyCG 'Joe Gerczak's service and sacrifice from Philly to New Guinea' (19 Apr 2024) [museum_official]
- Locator
- history.uscg.mil Long Blue Line article; mycg.uscg.mil/News/Article/3748986
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- USCG Historian's Office features document ship-level crew and casualty detail: LST-66 carried about 110 Coast Guard officers and enlisted; on 12 November 1944 at Dulag, Leyte a Japanese Zero kamikaze crashed the starboard aft quarterdeck - the CG feature records four shipmates killed and seven wounded plus Army dead and wounded among embarked 75th Joint Assault Signal Company troops; PHM2/c Robert Goldman (burned, shrapnel wounds) treated casualties before accepting care, later receiving Purple Heart and Bronze Star with 'V'. The MyCG feature records Cape Gloucester detail (26 Dec 1943: seven dive bombers attacked; SM3/c Joseph Gerczak shot down two before being killed; 149 shrapnel holes above the waterline; fires in sickbay and galley extinguished; three planes credited) and states LST-66 'ended the war as the most-decorated LST serving in the Coast Guard' and is the only ship with two Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutter namesakes (USCGC Joseph Gerczak WPC-1126; USCGC Robert Goldman WPC-1142).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943-1945 (events); 2022/2024 (publication)
- Population
- USCG crew; embarked 75th Joint Assault Signal Company troops
- Limitations
- Official USCG historical features; no asbestos or materials content - used for vessel-history context only. Kamikaze death toll is told differently across the CG's own products (four shipmates vs 'eight men' in the ship file vs 'five crewmembers' in the MyCG feature; NavSource aggregate 7 KIA/13 WIA wartime) - variants carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-66-04
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[6]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 2 (Jan 1945), LST design table - as inventoried in the lst-1-class class profile (class-f worktree); URL live at class-profile verification 2026-09-16, returned HTTP 404 on 2026-10-02 re-verification [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v2 LST design table (per lst-1-class.class.json ev-lst-1-class-01)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- BuShips official design data for the LST-1-class series: 328 ft oa, 50 ft beam, ~2,366 t light / ~4,080 t trial, 11.6 kt, twin GM 12-567A diesels at 1,700 shp (LST-66 falls in the 12-567A block, LST1-490 group), accommodations 13 officers/106 enlisted. Confirms diesel propulsion - no boiler plant - for the design series this hull belongs to.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Class-level design table, not a hull record; establishes the design plant, not materials aboard this hull. Source URL 404'd at re-verification - content relied on via the class profile's 2026-09-16 retrieval; NavSource spec block (ev-03) independently corroborates the figures for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-66-05
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[7]Class/era asbestos inference - LST-1 class profile (lst-1-class.class.json, class-f worktree): BuShips SDB v2 machinery data + era amphibious-ship construction practice [other_primary]
- Locator
- lst-1-class.class.json ev-lst-1-class-03; NavSource/CG spec blocks (diesel plant)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference for this diesel-powered LST: no boilers - asbestos-relevant applications aboard ships of this type were GM diesel exhaust lagging and gaskets, engine-room thermal/acoustic insulation, pipe insulation, deck coverings/tile, bulkhead and accommodation insulation, valve packing, and winch/crane brake linings; insulation and gasket products of 1942-43 construction commonly contained asbestos fiber.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1942-1948 (construction through disposal)
- Population
- Construction trades at Jeffersonville Boat & Machine (1942-43); USCG/USCGR crew; scrapping workers at Kaiser Co., Seattle (1948)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no member of the class has a located ship-level asbestos record, and none was located for LST-66. Establishes no quantities, no locations of remaining material, and no exposure for any individual. The diesel plant narrows the pathway relative to steam ships (no boiler/steam-line lagging scope).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-66-06
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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
- Finding type
- regulatory
- Finding
- GAO documented that the Navy's formal asbestos-protection program for shipyard workers was not established until 1975 (remove-on-damage policy, modified 1979 to selective replacement) - i.e., no Navy asbestos-control regime existed during this hull's 1942-46 service life or her 1948 scrapping.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1979 (report); applies to post-1975 era
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers (program population)
- Limitations
- Program-level context only and postdates this hull by ~30 years; documents the absence of an asbestos-control regime during the hull's era, not any condition aboard. gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetches; content via product-page description (same limitation noted in Batch-01).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-66-07
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[9]U.S. National Archives - USS LST-66 War Diary (National Archives Identifier 78270636, referenced in NavSource photo captions); NARA RG 26 Coast Guard photography documenting this hull (26-G series); USCG Historian's Office LST file (already retrieved, ev-02) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource photo captions on the LST-66 page; NARA catalog (catalog.archives.gov)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads not yet reviewed for materials-level detail: the LST-66 War Diary at NARA (Identifier 78270636) and NARA's 26-G series USCG photographs of this hull (identifiers 205584225, 205585106, 205585040, 205585022, 205585016, 205585013, 205585001, 205584980, 205585004, 205586191, 205584136 among captions) - war diaries occasionally record damage-repair and material details not in published histories.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943-1946 (record coverage)
- Limitations
- Leads only - none of these records has been reviewed; no asbestos content is asserted or implied. Identifier 78270636 is transcribed from a NavSource photo caption, not independently confirmed in the NARA catalog this session.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-66-08
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[10]Batch-7183 search ledger (this record): DANFS/NHHC; NavSource main + stories pages; USCG Historian's Office file (Wayback) and Long Blue Line/MyCG features; CourtListener API v4 (opinion + docket sweeps); live-web asbestos sweep; NVR (blocked by Navy SSO); NARA identifiers [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-66-01 through sl-uss-lst-66-09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed case naming USS LST-66 was found in the sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener opinion sweep on 'LST-66' returned 393 full-text hits - top-ranked results reviewed are unrelated (the string appears in docket numbers, license plates, and standards references, never as this vessel); the docket sweep returned only unrelated bankruptcy dockets (Lehman Brothers; St. Mary's Hospital, Passaic) with no vessel reference in any field. An asbestos-qualified opinion query could not be completed before session end (fleet pacing budget) - logged as blocked, not as a negative.
- 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 - 1942-43 amphibious construction practice makes era materials plausible but unproven for this hull. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-66-09