Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet 729-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-808-lst808-pkt-729-packet-md
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[2]Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (NHHC), LST-808 entry [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS LST-808 entry, single-paragraph ship history
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS records that LST-808 was laid down 1 August 1944 at Evansville, Indiana, by Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.; launched 15 September 1944, sponsored by Mrs. W. I. Oliver; and commissioned 29 September 1944. Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater, she participated in the assault and occupation of Iwo Jima in February 1945 and of Okinawa Gunto 'from April through June 1945' per DANFS. DANFS states she was torpedoed by a Japanese kamikaze off Ie Shima on 18 May 1945, grounded on a reef following the torpedoing, was destroyed 11 November 1945, and struck from the Navy list. She earned two battle stars for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Evansville construction trades and Navy crew
- Limitations
- Official secondary history, verified live via rendered fetch (direct curl HEAD returns HTTP 404 - NHHC bot mitigation). DANFS gives no stricken date and does not identify asbestos, material content, quantity, condition, exposure, or causation. Its 'April through June 1945' Okinawa span and 'torpedoed by a Japanese kamikaze' wording differ in detail from the NavSource account (see ev-uss-lst-808-lst808-02); both are reported with attribution.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-808-lst808-01
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[3]NavSource Online, Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-808 page (verified live HTTP 200) [other_primary]
- Locator
- LST-808 history bullets, campaign table, awards block, commanding-officer table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The NavSource USS LST-808 page records commissioning under Lt. John C. Stevens II (John Calvin Stevens II), USNR; wartime assignment to LST Flotilla Twenty-Five, LST Group Seventy-Three, LST Division One Hundred Forty-Five; campaign-table participation in the Iwo Jima operation (assault and occupation, 19-26 February 1945) and the Okinawa Gunto operation (1 April to 20 May 1945); a Japanese aerial torpedo strike off Ie Shima at 10:10 local time on 18 May 1945; grounding on a coral reef assisted by nearby LCVPs; a second strike by a Japanese kamikaze at 4:00 pm on 20 May 1945 while supplying fresh water and fog oil to ships on picket duty around the island; final disposition 'destroyed, 11 November 1945'; and 'Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Navy crew and embarked personnel; later demolition crews (1945)
- Limitations
- The detailed two-strike attack narrative is contributed material reproduced by NavSource (credited on-page to Richard M. Moore, USS LST-808), not an official action report; DANFS compresses the event to a single kamikaze torpedoing on 18 May. The page does not identify asbestos, material content, quantity, condition, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-808-lst808-02
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[4]Naval History and Heritage Command, United States Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945 [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- LST Flotilla Twenty-Five > LST Group 73 > LST Division 145 table, LST 808 row
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official NHHC United States Pacific Fleet Organization for 1 May 1945 places LST 808 in LST Flotilla Twenty-Five (Capt. H. E. Richter), LST Group 73 (Comdr. L. D. York, USNR), LST Division 145, with Lt. J. C. Stevens, II (USNR) listed for the hull. This contemporaneous administrative record corroborates the ship's wartime formation assignment and commanding officer two weeks before her loss.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1945-05-01
- Population
- LST Group 73 and Division 145 personnel
- Limitations
- Verified live via rendered fetch (direct curl HEAD returns HTTP 404 - NHHC bot mitigation). Administrative assignment only; it does not document materials, maintenance work, exposure, or asbestos.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-808-lst808-03
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[5]National Archives and Records Administration, Special List No. 44, by Ship Numbers [other_primary]
- Locator
- PDF text p. ~54, two adjacent LST-808 rows (10/5/1944 - 6/30/1945)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA Special List No. 44 lists LST-808 with Navy deck-log coverage from 5 October 1944 through 30 June 1945 (duplicated index rows), providing a primary archival lead for the ship's commissioned record including the loss period; coverage extends past the 18-20 May 1945 grounding.
- 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 only. The underlying logs were not retrieved, so no material, damage-control, or exposure finding is made; logs postdating the grounding may reflect administrative/salvage activity but this was not verified.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-808-lst808-04
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[6]NavSource Online, Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-808 specifications block (verified live HTTP 200) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Specifications block
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The LST-542-class specification reproduced on the NavSource LST-808 page gives 1,625 tons light / 4,080 tons full load displacement, 328 feet overall length, 50 feet beam, 11.6-knot trial speed, 13 officers and 104 enlisted in the ship's company, troop accommodations for 16 officers and 147 enlisted, two General Motors 12-567A 900-hp diesels, a single Falk main reduction gear, two propellers totaling 1,700 shaft horsepower, twin rudders, and three diesel-driven 100-kW 230-V DC ship-service generators.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Engineering crew and construction or maintenance workers
- Limitations
- The specification identifies the vessel design and class machinery but does not establish that any insulation, gasket, packing, cable, covering, or friction material aboard this hull contained asbestos.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-808-lst808-05
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[7]Fleischer WE, Viles FJ Jr., A health survey of pipe covering operations in constructing naval vessels, Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology 28 (1946), PMID 21016030 (metadata verified via NCBI E-utilities) [other_primary]
- Locator
- PubMed record (citation metadata confirmed via eutils.esummary; rendered page reCAPTCHA-gated this session)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era context only: the 1946 U.S. Public Health Service survey is a government survey of pipe-covering operations in naval-vessel construction, and its title and indexing document the wartime naval construction setting in which asbestos-containing pipe-covering work occurred. Applied cautiously to LST-808, a 1944 wartime Navy construction, plausible applications include pipe and machinery insulation, diesel-exhaust lagging, gaskets, packing, electrical insulation, deck coverings, and winch or windlass friction materials.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1940s
- Population
- Wartime naval-vessel construction trades
- Limitations
- Class/era context, not a hull-specific material finding. The source does not name LST-808, identify installed products aboard it, establish quantity or condition, or prove individual exposure or causation. Full article not retrieved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-808-lst808-06
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[8]U.S. Government Accountability Office, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (18 October 1979), indexed in GovInfo (URL verified live HTTP 200) [gao]
- Locator
- GovInfo PDF entry for HRD-80-2; report text not reviewed for hull-level mentions
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO's Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure (HRD-80-2) is an official program-level review identified in the federal government publication index. It is relevant as Navy-wide era context for shipboard asbestos management, not as evidence about LST-808.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy workers and Navy asbestos program
- Limitations
- Program-level index evidence only; it does not identify LST-808, any particular material aboard it, quantity, condition, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-808-lst808-07
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[9]Batch-7347 source review and search ledger; exact-name and exact-hull CourtListener helper attempts logged separately [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-808-lst808-01 through -10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record was located in the authoritative sources reached this session: the DANFS entry, the NavSource LST-808 history and specifications, the NHHC 1 May 1945 fleet organization, and the NARA logbook index contain no hull-specific asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or product identification. CourtListener litigation coverage is an access gap rather than a negative result because the authenticated helper reported the account-level daily quota exhausted (~10.3-hour server-requested wait) before returning results.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 2026-10-03
- Limitations
- A negative finding about records located is not proof that asbestos was absent. CourtListener was not completed, underlying NARA logs were not read, and no conclusion about exposure, causation, legal eligibility, or remaining material is supported. Wreck-site demolition and any later salvage records were not located and remain open leads.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-808-lst808-08