Evidence
13 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-13).
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[1]research packet 836-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-932-lst932-pkt-836-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, LST-932 - construction at Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc., Hingham, Mass.; launch; commissioning (live NHHC page, verified 2026-10-03; UA-gated, fetched via Firecrawl) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS service narrative, LST-932 entry, opening paragraph
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: 'LST-932 was laid down on 21 June 1944 at Hingham, Mass., by the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc.; launched on 22 July 1944; and commissioned on 15 August 1944, Lt. W. F. Jerome, USNR, in command.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- Bethlehem-Hingham construction trades (1944); commissioning crew
- Limitations
- Ship-specific history only; no asbestos or material content. DANFS names no sponsor for this hull and does not name a class in this entry's prose; class assignment (LST-542) comes from NavSource header and BuShips design tables.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-932-lst932-01
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[3]DANFS, LST-932 - World War II campaigns, occupation/China service, decommissioning, striking, and 1948 sale to Standard Oil Co. (live NHHC page, verified 2026-10-03; UA-gated, fetched via Firecrawl) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS service narrative, LST-932 entry, service and disposition paragraphs
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater; participated in the Lingayen Gulf landing in January 1945 and the Mindanao Island landings in April and May 1945. Post-war occupation duty in the Far East and service in China until mid-February 1946; returned to the United States; decommissioned 24 June 1946; struck from the Navy list 31 July 1946; sold 29 March 1948 'to the Standard Oil Co. for operation.' Three battle stars for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Navy ship's company and embarked troops (1944-46); later commercial crew (1948-?)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific history only; no asbestos or material content. DANFS does not list the Okinawa Gunto operation that NavSource's campaign table carries (21 May-28 June 1945) - NavSource's three-campaign table is consistent with the documented three battle stars; see gaps. 'Standard Oil Co.' is DANFS's exact wording - no state affiliate named. No post-sale fate.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-932-lst932-02
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[4]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-932 (10/16/160932.htm, last updated 24 December 2020) - designation, call sign NVSJ, campaign and occupation-service tables, specifications, commanding-officer list, captioned photography incl. a companion crew-photos page (10/16/160932c.htm, live pages verified 2026-10-03) [museum_official]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/16/160932.htm header block, awards/campaign/occupation tables, specifications block, CO table, photo captions; crew page 10/16/160932c.htm
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource header identifies this hull as a '542-Class Tank Landing Ship'; International Radio Call Sign NVSJ (November - Victor - Sierra - Juliet). Campaign table: Luzon operation, Lingayen Gulf landing, 4-18 January 1945; Consolidation and capture of southern Philippines, Mindanao Island landings, 17-23 April and 10-16 May 1945; Okinawa Gunto operation, assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 21 May-28 June 1945. Navy Occupation Service periods: 8 September-9 November 1945, 12 December 1945-19 February 1946, and 8-13 March 1946; China Service Medal (extended) period 12 December 1945-19 February 1946. CO table: LT William F. Jerome USNR, 15 August 1944-7 May 1946; LTjg Bradley M. Auten USNR, 7 May-24 June 1946. Awards: China Service Medal (extended); American Campaign Medal; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (3); World War II Victory Medal; Navy Occupation Service Medal (Asia clasp); Philippines Presidential Unit Citation; Philippines Liberation Medal (2). Specifications: 1,625 t light / 4,080 t full / 2,366 t beaching; 328 ft o.a.; 50 ft beam; 11.6 kt trial; endurance 24,000 mi at 9 kt; complement 13 officers + 104 enlisted; troop accommodations 16 officers + 147 enlisted; two General Motors 12-567A 900-hp diesels (see engine-variant conflict in gaps - BuShips assigns 12-278A to this hull block), single Falk main reduction gear, two propellers 1,700 shp, twin rudders, three 100-kW diesel-driven ship-service generators; 2 LCVP. Photo captions: beached unloading at Port Legaspi, P.I., captioned 4 January 1945 (US Army Signal Corps photo #172-20 - date inconsistent with the documented April 1945 Legaspi operation, see gaps); crew photo in the Whangpoo River, Shanghai, 6 February 1946; entering San Francisco Bay c. June 1946 (NHHC photo NH 79586). Crew-collection pages identify named enlisted contributors (QM3/c Ernest J. Garms USNR; S1/c Eugene Pometto 1944-46).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Bethlehem-Hingham construction trades (1944); Navy ship's company (1944-46); embarked troops incl. Lingayen/Mindanao/Okinawa landing forces
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - milestone dates track DANFS but the spec block is unattributed class boilerplate and armament figures are the class's 'ultimate armament design,' not an outfit record for this hull; its 12-567A engine entry conflicts with the official BuShips engine-variant table (12-278A for hulls 932-979 - see ev-04 and gaps). The Legaspi photo's caption date is operationally inconsistent (see gaps). Contains no asbestos content. No post-Navy detail beyond the 1948 sale ('Final Disposition, fate unknown').
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-932-lst932-03
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[5]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 2 (January 1945), LST design table, LST932-979 block row (ShipScribe mirror of the official BuShips publication; live PDF verified 2026-10-03) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v2.pdf, LST design table (p. ~168-169), 'LST932-979' block rows
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official BuShips design table carries a dedicated 'LST932-979' block row - this hull is the lead hull of that block: 328 ft overall, 316 ft waterline, 50 ft beam; 2,366 t beaching displacement, 4,080 t limiting-draft displacement, 3,960 t trial displacement; 11.6 kt trial speed; two propellers; engines '2 G.M. Diesel, 12-278A' at 1,700 shp; accommodations 13 officers + 106 enlisted; class design armament 2 twin + 4 single 40-mm AA mounts. The table assigns the 12-278A engine variant to hulls LST932-979 and LST1060-1080 only, versus the GM 12-567A for all other LST number blocks - a ship-number-specific engine assignment from the official source.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1945 (publication); 1944 construction era
- Population
- Engineering crew and construction trades (design intent)
- Limitations
- Design-table block row, not a hull-fitting record: the table covers a numbered block of hulls (932-979) at design level, and the complement figure (106 enlisted) differs from NavSource's 104 (see gaps). Contains no asbestos or insulation-material content; armament is class 'ultimate armament design,' not this hull's outfit.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-932-lst932-04
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[6]NARA catalog, three ship-titled USS LST-932 operational reports in RG 38 WWII War Diaries series: NAID 139890161 (Rep of AA act While enroute Lingayan Gulf, Luzon Is, Philippines on 1/12/45; dated 15 Jan 1945, Serial 06); NAID 140051065 (Report of operations in the assault and resupply landings at Legaspi, Luzon Island, Philippines, 4/1-8/45; dated 10 Apr 1945, Serial 013); NAID 77505954 (Rep of opers in the assault landings at Macajalar Bay, Mindanao Island, Philippines, 5/10-13/45; dated 14 May 1945, Serial 014) - live catalog records verified 2026-10-03, each with 4 digitized images [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov/id/139890161, /id/140051065, /id/77505954 (4 images each, Fold3 scans, microfilm rolls A1427, A1668, A1888)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Ship-level primary operational records for this hull are digitized at NARA: the ship's own report of anti-aircraft action while en route to the Lingayen Gulf landing on 12 January 1945; its report of operations in the assault and resupply landings at Legaspi, Luzon, 1-8 April 1945; and its report of operations in the assault landings at Macajalar Bay, Mindanao, 10-13 May 1945. These document anti-aircraft combat and three separate amphibious operations matching the DANFS/NavSource campaign record (Lingayen, Mindanao incl. Macajalar Bay - a 10-16 May window that overlaps NavSource's 10-16 May dates).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1945-01 to 1945-05
- Population
- Navy ship's company and embarked/landed troops (Jan-May 1945)
- Limitations
- Archival lead: catalog metadata, file-unit titles, dates, and digitized-image counts verified; report contents not read this session. Operational reports document combat/landing activity - asbestos or material content not expected. The Legaspi report's April 1945 window confirms US operations there in April, underscoring the inconsistency of the Signal Corps photo's '4 January 1945' caption (see gaps).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-932-lst932-05
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[7]NARA catalog search 'LST-932': 171 digitized file units (fuzzy), RG 38-dominated - including COM LST GR 64 group war diaries Sep 1944, Nov 1944, Dec 1944, Jan-Apr 1945, Jun 1945, Aug-Oct 1945; plus NARA Special List No. 44 logbook index (archives.gov/files/research/military/logbooks/sl-44-ship-number.pdf) [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov search 'LST-932' (171 fuzzy results, RG 38-dominated); SL-44 PDF p.49, LST-932 row '8/15/1944 - 6/30/1945'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Beyond the ship-titled action reports (ev-05), the NARA catalog returns 171 file units matching 'LST-932,' dominated by the RG 38 WWII War Diaries series - including fourteen COM LST GR 64 group war diaries spanning Aug (11-31), Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec 1944 and Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct 1945 (e.g., NAID 139907320, COM LST GR 64 War Diary 2/1-28/45) - a near-complete run for the hull's wartime commission, consistent with this hull operating inside LST Group 64 during the Philippine campaigns. NARA Special List No. 44 (logbooks by ship number) lists LST-932 logbook coverage 15 August 1944 through 30 June 1945 - commissioning through the end of the Okinawa period.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- LST Group 64 staff and unit crews (1944-45)
- Limitations
- Archival lead only: the fuzzy catalog match suggests but does not prove group-constituent status; individual diary contents not read this session, and no ship-level USS LST-932 war diary (monthly narrative) surfaced - only the three serial action reports (ev-05). SL-44 confirms logbook coverage dates, not contents; underlying logbooks undigitized. No asbestos content expected in operational diaries.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-932-lst932-06
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[8]MARAD Vessel History Database, LST-932 (Detail/9564) - stub entry, General Type 'Naval Combatant', Specific Type 'LST Tank Landing Ship', MARAD Type 'Military', Fate 'Sold - No Further Info' (live page, verified 2026-10-03) [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov ShipHistory/Detail/9564, all tabs
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- MARAD's vessel-history database carries an entry for this hull that is a bare stub: all specification fields blank, 'Year Built' set to the database's 9999 placeholder, no historical narrative, no images, no status cards, no documents, no milestones. The sole substantive datum is 'Fate: Sold - No Further Info' - consistent with the documented 29 March 1948 sale to Standard Oil Co. (DANFS) but adding no detail and no post-sale identity.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1948
- Limitations
- Stub-quality record: confirms only that MARAD indexes the hull and codes its fate as a sale. 'Year Built 9999' is a placeholder, not data. No disposal instrument or status card attached - the Standard Oil resale and any later foreign registry are not documented here. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-932-lst932-07
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[9]Era inference built on: DANFS construction record (Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc., Hingham, 1944); NavSource specifications (LST-542 class, diesel plant); BuShips SDB1945v2 LST932-979 block (ev-04); Fleischer et al. 1946 PHS survey (ev-09); GAO HRD-80-2 (ev-10) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Fleischer et al. 1946 (PMID 21016030); GAO HRD-80-2 product page; DANFS/NavSource/BuShips construction and spec records
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A tank landing ship built Jun-Aug 1944 in a Navy-contract yard sits inside the documented wartime asbestos-construction era: the PHS industrial-hygiene survey of pipe covering in naval-vessel construction found amosite asbestos was 'an important ingredient of pipe covering material used on U.S. Navy vessels,' with asbestos cloth and asbestos cement also used; GAO documented asbestos thermal insulation as the Navy's major shipboard asbestos use through the early 1970s. Era-standard applications aboard a diesel landing ship of this type and period were pipe and machinery insulation/lagging, diesel-exhaust lagging, gaskets, valve packing, electrical cable insulation, winch/windlass brake linings, and interior finish materials in quarters and mess spaces. Diesel plant - no boilers aboard.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1952
- Population
- Bethlehem-Hingham construction trades (1944); Navy ship's company (1944-46); Standard Oil commercial crew (1948-?)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for LST-932. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. Product names are normalized era terms; no manufacturer attribution for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-932-lst932-08
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[10]Fleischer WE, Viles FJ Jr, Gade RL, Drinker P, 'A health survey of pipe covering operations in constructing naval vessels,' J Ind Hyg Toxicol 1946 Jan;28:9-16 (PMID 21016030) - U.S. Public Health Service industrial-hygiene survey of two Government Navy yards and two Navy contract yards [other_primary]
- Locator
- PubMed record PMID 21016030 (verified via NCBI E-utilities); article text pp. 9-16 (pipe-covering materials section; X-ray results)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- Wartime government survey documenting the asbestos regime inside naval-vessel construction: amosite asbestos was 'an important ingredient of pipe covering material used on U.S. Navy vessels,' valued for low thermal conductivity, light weight, and refractoriness; asbestos cloth and asbestos cement were likewise used. X-ray examination of 1,074 pipe coverers across four yards found three asbestosis cases, each with 20+ years in the trade. Surveyed operations (layout and cutting, band-saw cutting, cement mixing, installing, sewing asbestos cloth, stuffing with amosite) generated the era's principal insulation-trade dust exposure.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1946 (survey era)
- Population
- Navy yard and contract-yard pipe coverers/insulators (wartime)
- Limitations
- Era-level occupational survey, not a hull record: the four yards are anonymized (Navy Yards A-B, Contract Yards C-D), and Bethlehem-Hingham and LSTs are not named - pipe covering was principally a steam-plant application, so the asbestos cloth/cement and general-insulation findings carry the weight for a diesel hull. Does not establish materials aboard this hull, individual exposure, or quantity. Citation metadata re-verified 2026-10-03 via NCBI E-utilities (esummary 21016030); the pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov page itself is reCAPTCHA-gated to automated fetch.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-932-lst932-09
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[11]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 all Navy ships contained some asbestos in components such as clutches and electric cables, and that asbestos thermal insulation was the Navy's major asbestos use aboard ships; the Navy did not substitute alternative insulation materials until the early 1970s and adopted removal policies only in 1975/1979 - postdating this hull's entire Navy life (built 1944, decommissioned and struck 1946, sold 1948).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- 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 blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403, reconfirmed 2026-10-03) - content via product-page description and report abstract.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-932-lst932-10
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[12]Buckley W, 'The Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard in World War II,' U.S. Naval Institute, Naval History, Vol. 35, No. 3 (June 2021) - yard history with USNI Photo Archive imagery (live page, verified 2026-10-03 via Firecrawl) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- usni.org Naval History June 2021, body text (yard founding, workforce figures, production record, '227 ships')
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Yard-level documentation of this hull's builder: the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard was a purpose-built emergency yard cleared on 150 acres at Hingham, Massachusetts, operated December 1941-1945 for Bethlehem Steel; more than 23,500 people worked daily at peak (including over 2,700 women after the first year); the yard built Evarts, Edsall, Cannon, and Buckley-class destroyer escorts plus landing ship tanks - setting a record of 'a destroyer escort in 23 days and five landing ship tanks in 50 hours' - earned the Army-Navy 'E' Award in two consecutive years, and delivered 227 ships by war's end.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1941-1945
- Population
- Bethlehem-Hingham shipyard trades incl. pipe fitters, welders, shipfitters (1941-45)
- Limitations
- Yard-level historical journalism (USNI magazine), not a hull record: LST-932 is not named; the article documents the workforce and production environment of the yard that built her. No asbestos, insulation, or material content. Useful for construction-trades population context only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-932-lst932-11
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[13]Batch-7475 search ledger (this record): live NHHC DANFS; NavSource main + crew pages; BuShips Ships' Data 1945 v2; NARA catalog (hull search + three ship-level report records + SL-44 index); MARAD vessel-history entry; NVR; BVA decisions index; GAO product page; PubMed/NCBI E-utilities; USNI yard article; CourtListener (blocked); secondary web sweeps [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-932-lst932-01 through -17
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or verified litigation naming USS LST-932 was found in the public sources searched. CAVEAT: CourtListener could not be queried this session - the authenticated API helper reported the shared daily quota exhausted (server-requested wait ~7.6 h); logged as blocked in search_ledger, not as a negative result. The BVA decisions index returned no results for 'LST-932'; the Naval Vessel Register carries no entry (hull struck 1946, predating register coverage); secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case - only law-firm marketing listicles (excluded by source policy), the documented sources above, and a secondary tanker-register compilation claiming a post-Navy 'Esso Neuquen' identity (unverified - see gaps).
- Verification
- verified
- 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 - and the litigation repository search is a genuine open gap (quota-blocked, not run). The hull's commercial-era records (Standard Oil operation 1948+, claimed Esso SAPA Argentine service, claimed loss) are undocumented in official sources searched. RG 24 deck logs/muster rolls and the contents of the three digitized action reports (ev-05) are unread leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-932-lst932-12