Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet 719-packet.md (1 sources cited) [museum_official]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED (sourcing note
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lst-748-lst748-pkt-719-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, LST-748 (live NHHC page verified 2026-10-03) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS service narrative (no spec block in this entry)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: 'LST-748 was laid down on 2 April 1944 at Pittsburgh, Pa., by the Dravo Corp., Neville Island; launched on 13 May 1944; sponsored by Mrs. C. McK. Lynch; and commissioned on 5 June 1944.' Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater (DANFS prints the typo 'Asiatic-Parific'), participation in 'the Leyte landings in November 1944 and the Lingayen Gulf landing in January 1945.' 'Following the war, LST-748 performed occupation duty in the Far East and saw service in China until mid-March 1946. On 27 May 1948, she was transferred to the Maritime Administration for disposition.' 'LST-748 earned two battle stars for World War II service.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Dravo construction trades (Apr-Jun 1944); crew (1944-46)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific history only; no asbestos or material content, and no spec block in this DANFS entry (complement/dimensions come from NavSource and class design data). DANFS gives no decommissioning or striking date. 'Maritime Administration' is DANFS's wording - the Maritime Commission was the era-correct agency name in 1948 (MARAD created 1950); NavSource reads 'Maritime Commission' (see gaps). Establishes identity, milestones, campaigns, and administrative disposition only - not exposure, quantity, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-748-lst748-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-748 (160748) - timeline, campaign table, occupation/China medal periods, specifications, commanding officers, photo record (live page verified 2026-10-03) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/16/160748.htm - header timeline, awards ribbons, campaign table, occupation/China medal table, specifications block, commanding officers table, photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: LST-542 class tank landing ship; laid down 2 April 1944 at Dravo Corp., Neville Island, Pittsburgh, PA; launched 13 May 1944; commissioned USS LST-748, 5 June 1944, Lt. Ernest Rousseau USN in command; international radio call sign NGEX. Campaign table credits two Asiatic-Pacific operations: Leyte operation (Leyte landings, 5-18 November 1944) and Luzon operation (Lingayen Gulf landings, 4-18 January 1945). Postwar: Navy Occupation Service Medal (Asia clasp) periods 22 September-25 October 1945 and 12 December 1945-12 March 1946; China Service Medal (extended) periods 29 September-11 October 1945 and 12 December 1945-12 March 1946; also Philippines Presidential Unit Citation and Philippines Liberation Medal (2). 'Decommissioned, date unknown. Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown. Final Disposition, transferred, 27 May 1948, to the Maritime Commission for disposal.' 'Earned two battle stars for World War II service.' Specifications: 1,625 t. light / 4,080 t. full / 2,366 t. beaching; 328 ft o.a.; 50 ft beam; 11.6 kts trial; complement 13 officers / 104 enlisted; troop accommodations 16 officers / 147 enlisted; 2 LCVP; propulsion two General Motors 12-567A 900-hp diesels, single Falk main reduction gear, three diesel-drive 100 kW 230V D.C. ship's-service generators, two propellers 1,700 shp, twin rudders. Commanding officers: Lt. Ernest Rousseau USN (5 June 1944 - 18 August 1944); Lt. Charles O. Foster USNR (18 August 1944 - December 1945); Ltjg. George Clyde Money USNR (December 1945 - 2 February 1946); Ltjg. Herbert F. Owens USNR (2 February 1946 - ?). Photo record: commissioning crew photo at Dravo, 5 June 1944; NHHC photo NH 79104 homeward-bound in San Francisco Bay, circa 1946.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Dravo construction trades (Apr-Jun 1944); crew (1944-46); embarked troops (~16 officers / 147 enlisted capacity)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation - milestone dates here agree with DANFS (laid, launched, commissioned, transfer date, two battle stars). Decommission and striking dates are explicitly 'unknown' and are carried as gaps, not guessed. Contains no asbestos content. Complement/specs are the canonical per-hull reference values, consistent with BuShips class design data. 'Maritime Commission' vs DANFS 'Maritime Administration' naming variance noted in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-748-lst748-02
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[4]NARA, WWII War Diaries / Action and Operational Reports series - six digitized USS LST-748 anti-aircraft action reports (RG 38, Office of Naval Records and Library; catalog search and all six catalog pages verified live 2026-10-03): NAID 78690230 'Form Rep of AA Act in Leyte Gulf, Philippines, 11/12/44' (micro serial 95952, Roll A1269); NAID 633409401 'Rep of AA act While in resupply echelon to Mindoro Is, Philippines 12/28/44' (Roll A1548); NAID 633409407 'Rep of AA act While enroute in resupply echelon to Mindoro Is, Philippines on 12/29/44' (Roll A1548); NAID 633409412 'Rep of AA act While enroute in resupply echelon to Mindoro Is, Philippines on 12/29/44' (Roll A1548 - second file unit, same title); NAID 633409417 'Rep of AA act While returning in resupply echelon from Mindoro Is, Philippines on 1/1/45' (Roll A1548); NAID 139888379 'Rep of AA act while enroute to Lingayen Gulf, Luzon Is, Philippines on 1/12/45' (Serial 07, dated 1/20/1945, micro serial 108679, Roll A1425) [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov/id/78690230, /id/633409401, /id/633409407, /id/633409412, /id/633409417, /id/139888379 (WWII War Diaries series, RG 38, NARA College Park)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The ship's own wartime anti-aircraft action reports survive, digitized, in the National Archives: six file units covering AA actions at Leyte Gulf (12 November 1944, inside the credited Leyte campaign window); four Mindoro resupply-echelon file units (in echelon 28 December 1944; enroute 29 December 1944 as two same-titled units on Roll A1548; returning 1 January 1945); and the 12 January 1945 enroute-to-Lingayen action (inside the credited Lingayen Gulf campaign window, 4-18 January 1945). These are primary-record corroboration of the credited Leyte and Lingayen operations, and additionally document Mindoro resupply runs that neither DANFS nor NavSource lists as a campaign credit for this hull - resupply-echelon AA reports, not a separate campaign claim.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-11 to 1945-01 (report coverage)
- Population
- Crew during the documented operations (Nov 1944 - Jan 1945)
- Limitations
- Anti-aircraft action reports document combat operations and ship movements; they contain no asbestos or material content and do not establish exposure. The two same-titled 12/29/44 file units (NAIDs 633409407 and 633409412) are separate catalog records on the same roll at different image offsets - possibly two report copies or a catalog duplication; not resolved page-by-page. Mindoro resupply activity documented here is not a campaign credit - neither source's campaign list is contradicted. Catalog metadata (serials, rolls) transcribed from catalog listing; report contents not transcribed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-748-lst748-03
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[5]NHHC Photograph NH 79104 - 'USS LST-748. In San Francisco Bay, California, circa early 1946. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1974' (live page verified 2026-10-03) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NHHC NH-series photo page, catalog NH 79104
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NHHC holds and publishes an official photograph of this hull in San Francisco Bay circa early 1946 - official documentation of the ship's return from the Asiatic-Pacific theater, consistent with the homeward-bound period between her China-service end (mid-March 1946) and her eventual transfer. NavSource displays the same photo with a 'homeward bound' caption.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1946
- Population
- Crew, San Francisco Bay, circa early 1946
- Limitations
- Photographic presence documentation only - establishes where the ship was, not materials aboard or exposure. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-748-lst748-04
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[6]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 2 (January 1945), LST design table; class background used for design context only [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB-1945 Vol. 2 LST design tables (characteristics and machinery), LST542-931 row group; class profile lst-1-class.class.json corroborates machinery grouping
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference only: the BuShips Ships' Data design table places LST-748 in the LST542-931 design group - diesel-powered (two G.M. Diesel 12-567A engines, 1,700 shaft horsepower) with no boilers (boiler columns blank for the diesel groups; steam conditions appear only against the later turbine LST1153-1154). A tank landing ship built April-June 1944 sits squarely inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era; era-standard asbestos-relevant applications aboard an LST of this design were diesel and engine-exhaust lagging, engine-room thermal insulation, gaskets and valve packing on machinery and piping, deck coverings, and insulation in accommodation and working spaces. Wartime construction at an inland 'cornfield' yard (Dravo, Neville Island) ran on the compressed schedules typical of the LST mass-production program.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- 1944 shipyard trades, engineering crew, deck machinery operators, and any later maintenance/disposal workers
- Limitations
- Class/design inference, not a ship-specific material finding. The source does not state asbestos content and does not establish presence, absence, quantity, condition, removal history, individual exposure, or causation aboard LST-748. No hull-specific insulation survey, material schedule, or work package located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-748-lst748-05
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[7]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (published Oct 18, 1979; publicly released Oct 22, 1979; 26-page report) [gao]
- Locator
- gao.gov/products/hrd-80-2 highlights section; full report at gao.gov/assets/hrd-80-2.pdf
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO reviewed the Navy's efforts to protect workers from asbestos exposure at the Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards, covering the use of asbestos in Navy ships, the cost of removal, and compensation programs. The product page documents that the Navy's 1975 policy was to remove and replace with nonasbestos materials only damaged insulation or insulation that had to be removed for necessary repairs, modified in 1979 to selectively replace asbestos insulation in high-maintenance areas - establishing that asbestos insulation was standard aboard Navy ships of this hull's construction era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1979 (report); WWII-1970s (asbestos-use era described)
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers (program context)
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. Fieldwork yards were Long Beach and Norfolk - neither built or serviced this hull. gao.gov blocks plain automated fetch (HTTP 403 via curl, confirmed 2026-10-03); product-page highlights retrieved via rendered fetch; full 26-page PDF not retrieved this session.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-748-lst748-06
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[8]Batch-7281 search ledger (this record): live DANFS page; NavSource; six NARA action-report file units; NARA Special List No. 44; NARA digitized deck-log index; NHHC NH 79104; NVR; GAO; BuShips SD-1945 v2; secondary web sweep; CourtListener helper attempt [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-748-lst748-01 through sl-uss-lst-748-lst748-12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record was located in the public sources searched: the live DANFS entry, NavSource page, six digitized NARA action reports, NHHC photo record, and NVR contain no asbestos, survey, abatement, hazmat, or insulation-material disclosure for LST-748. CourtListener could not be searched: the authenticated fleet helper returned a daily-quota stand-down (~11.8 hours) before any result response - logged as blocked, not as a negative result. A secondary web sweep for 'LST-748 asbestos' returned only law-firm marketing pages (banned source class) and a hull-number collision with USS Harry E. Hubbard (DD-748) - no qualifying litigation or record surfaced.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 2026-10-03
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - era-consistent materials are expected on a 1944 hull, but no ship-specific record documents them. CourtListener coverage is nil this session (quota exhausted before first query completed); litigation status for this hull is open, not negative. MARAD disposition records, deck logs, and Dravo work packages are undigitized leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-748-lst748-07
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[9]National Archives and Records Administration, Special List No. 44, by Ship Numbers; and NARA 'Navy Deck Logs Available in the National Archives Catalog' index [other_primary]
- Locator
- SL-44 PDF text line for LST-748 (6/5/1944 - 6/30/1945); archives.gov/research/military/logbooks/navy-online index (no LST-748 entry); catalog.archives.gov search result items NAID 633381363, 140065009, 78671811, 139755469
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA Special List No. 44, by ship number, lists LST-748 with logbook coverage from 5 June 1944 (commissioning) through 30 June 1945, providing an archival lead for the vessel's commissioning and wartime record. The companion index of digitized Navy deck logs contains no LST-748 entry (its LST coverage begins at LST-1032 and concentrates on later-era hulls), so the logbooks exist at NARA (College Park, RG 24) but are not digitized. The NARA catalog search also surfaced COM LST-GR 43 and COM LST FLOT 15 war diaries under a 'LST-748' full-text query - a possible group/flotilla affiliation lead, unverified (see gaps).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Ship's company and wartime operations
- Limitations
- The index confirms logbook coverage dates, not the contents of the logs; no logbook volume was retrieved. The flotilla/group names appear only as catalog search hits - whether they mention this hull or merely tokenize similarly is unverified; no affiliation is asserted. This row makes no asbestos or exposure finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-748-lst748-08