Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet jk-packet.md (1 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-reid-dd369-pkt-jk-packet-md
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[2]NHHC DANFS, 'Reid III (DD-369), 1936-1944' (expanded entry by Jeremiah D. Foster, published 5 Sep 2019); live page currently 404s - content verified via Wayback capture of 2025-12-09; original DANFS entry via HyperWar/ibiblio (dd369) and losthistory.net/hazegray mirror [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Reid III (DD-369)' - spec block + full service narrative + commanding officers table (NHHC, published 2019-09-05)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 25 June 1934 by Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Kearny, N.J.; launched 11 January 1936 (sponsor Mrs. Beatrice (Reid) Power); commissioned 2 November 1936 at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, Cmdr. Robert B. Carney in command; Mediterranean shakedown cruise Jan-Feb 1937; moored at buoy X-Ray 8 Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 and opened fire on Japanese planes; Aleutians 1942 - Kiska bombardment 7 August, Adak landings 30 August, sank IJN submarine RO-61 by gunfire 31 August 1942 at 52°35'N 173°57'W taking five prisoners (original short DANFS reads 'RO-1' - discrepancy carried in gaps); Solomons and New Guinea 1943-44 (Lae, Finschhafen, rescue of ~225 USS Henley survivors 3-4 Oct 1943, Arawe, Cape Gloucester, Saidor, Los Negros as Rear Adm. Fechteler's flagship for Operation Brewer, Hollandia, Wakde, Biak, Noemfoor); Mare Island overhauls Aug 1937, Oct-Dec 1938, Nov 1942, and May-Jul 1943; Bethlehem Steel dock San Pedro overhaul Nov 1940; Pearl Harbor drydock 15-21 Aug 1944; Ormoc Bay bombardment 7 Dec 1944 during the kamikaze attacks that sank Mahan (DD-364); sunk by repeated kamikaze crashes 11 December 1944 while escorting resupply echelon TU 78.3.8 through Surigao Strait, stern-first in minutes at approx. 09°55'N 124°55'E in ~600 fathoms; commanding officer and 150 crew rescued by landing craft; seven battle stars for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1934-1944
- Population
- Federal Shipbuilding construction trades 1934-36; wartime crew (complement 264 per expanded DANFS; 268 aboard at loss per UMass finding aid)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents construction, service history, and loss circumstances, not materials or asbestos content. Spec-block figures conflict between the expanded entry (complement 264) and the original entry (202); armament listed differs by fit/era; 'nearly a third' casualty framing differs from the 103-of-268 figure in the UMass finding aid - conflicts carried in gaps. Live NHHC page returns 404; verified via Wayback capture.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-reid-dd369-01
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[3]Bureau of Ships, Navy Department, 'Destroyer Report: Gunfire, Bomb and Kamikaze Damage, Including Losses in Action, 17 October 1941 to 15 August 1945' (War Damage Report No. 51, Preliminary Design Section, 25 January 1947), Table II (HyperWar transcription) [other_primary]
- Locator
- War Damage Report No. 51, Table II section A item 5
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official BuShips war-damage compilation records REID (DD369), 1500T standard displacement, damaged by Kamikaze at Leyte 12/11/44, and classifies her loss in Table II under 'Flooding - loss of buoyancy aggravated by radical list' - the Navy's official postwar engineering assessment of how this hull was lost.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1944-12-11; report published 1947-01-25
- Population
- Wartime crew at loss (150 rescued; ~103 lost per memorial/archive sources)
- Limitations
- Table-II entry only - Reid is not among the 13 detailed case-history sections in the report, so no hull-specific damage narrative is available from this source; records loss mechanics, not materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-reid-dd369-02
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[4]Navy Department Communiqué No. 566, 5 January 1945 (HyperWar/ibiblio Navy Department communiqués collection) [other_primary]
- Locator
- N.D. Communiqué No. 566, January 5, 1945 (item 1)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official Navy Department public announcement of this hull's loss: 'The destroyer USS Reid was recently lost as a result of enemy action in the Philippine Islands area. The next of kin of casualties have been informed.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1945-01-05
- Population
- Crew and next of kin
- Limitations
- Announcement only - states the loss and next-of-kin notification, not the date, position, circumstances, or casualty count; contemporaneous with the loss but bare-bones by design.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-reid-dd369-03
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[5]UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 'Gardner/Wilson Collection of the USS Reid 369' finding aid (MS 1047) [museum_official]
- Locator
- MS 1047 finding aid, 'Scope' section
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Institutional archive holds a USS Reid (DD-369) collection built by shipmates Leonard F. Gardner (served 1941-44, Pearl Harbor survivor) and James M. Wilson III: newsletters (1997-2015), photographs, and 2006 oral histories of surviving crew, plus the archived ussreid369.org website. The finding aid records the 11 December 1944 kamikaze sinking as killing 103 of the 268 aboard.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1936-2015 (collection); 1944-12-11 (loss)
- Population
- Crew at loss; shipmate/reunion community
- Limitations
- Finding aid describes a collection; casualty figures are the archive's secondary restatement, though they corroborate the U.S. Navy Memorial Lost at Sea count of 103. Not a contemporaneous record; does not document materials or asbestos.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-reid-dd369-04
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[6]United States Navy Memorial, Lost at Sea Log - 'Reid' (DD-369) [museum_official]
- Locator
- Navy Memorial navylog entry 'Reid', DD-369, Lost at Sea Log
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official U.S. Navy Memorial Lost at Sea record for this hull: 'Date Lost: Monday, December 11, 1944 - Kamikaze Attacks near Surigao Straits'; the log carries 103 sailors for this hull and preserves a tribute text by Capt. Rufus C. Porter, USN (Ret.), the ship's last executive officer.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1944-12-11
- Population
- Crew killed 11 December 1944 (103 logged)
- Limitations
- Memorial roll compiled postwar; compilation methodology and source lists are not published. Corroborates the 103-killed figure also carried in the UMass finding aid. Documents personnel loss, not materials.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-reid-dd369-05
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[7]Atlas shipyards.json record 'federal-shipbuilding-kearny' (tier 2): Owens-Illinois, Industrial Health Survey of Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Kearny NJ, 30 Aug-2 Sep 1944 (introduced as interrogatory exhibit #20 in Heathman v. Owens-Corning, Brazoria County TX 1990); DANFS spec block (Mahan class) [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipyards.json 'federal-shipbuilding-kearny' evidence row ev-federal-kearny-ihs-1944; DANFS service narrative (yard periods)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/builder-yard inference: a 1934-36 Mahan-class steam destroyer built at Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock, Kearny, N.J., would have carried period-standard asbestos products - boiler and turbine insulation, steam-line lagging, gaskets and packing, fireproofing, and deck/bulkhead coverings. Yard-level documentation confirms asbestos insulation products (Johns-Manville Superex pipe covering, Owens-Illinois Kaylo boiler/pipe insulation, W.R. Grace Monokote fireproofing, Garlock gaskets) in use at the Kearny yard in 1944. DANFS documents repeated yard periods exposing this hull to yard trades: Mare Island overhauls Aug 1937, Oct-Dec 1938, Nov 1942, and May-Jul 1943; Bethlehem Steel San Pedro Nov 1940; Pearl Harbor drydock Aug 1944; New York Navy Yard commissioning/drydock 1936-37.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1934-1944; yard survey 1944
- Population
- Federal Shipbuilding construction trades 1934-36; yard workers at documented overhaul periods; wartime crew 1936-44
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no hull-specific asbestos finding exists for DD-369. The 1944 yard survey postdates this hull's 1934-36 construction by roughly a decade. Yard periods are documented events; asbestos disturbance scope at each is inference, not documented fact. Nothing in this row should be read as 'documented aboard this hull.'
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-reid-dd369-06
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[8]CourtListener API v4 sweeps (opinions type=o; RECAP dockets type=r), 27 September 2026 [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search, queries as listed
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull located. Queries run: opinions 'USS Reid' (1 hit - U.S. v. Jones, 20 M.J. 919, N.M.C.M.R. 1985, court-martial; Reid reference is frigate FFG-30, in commission 1983-98); 'U.S.S. Reid' and 'aboard the Reid' (1 hit - U.S. v. Roberts, 779 F.2d 565, 9th Cir. 1986, Coast Guard drug interdiction aboard a Navy ship in 1980s San Diego - FFG-30 era); 'DD-369' (1 hit - McQuay v. State, 352 So.2d 1276, Fla. 1st DCA 1977, where 'No. DD-369' is the court's own docket number, not the ship); 'USS Reid' asbestos, 'USS Reid' mesothelioma, 'DD 369' asbestos (0 hits each). RECAP dockets: 'USS Reid' (0 hits); 'DD-369' (3 hits - incidental string matches in non-asbestos matters: U.S. v. Wilson S.D. Ga. 2025, Calixto v. U.S. Dept. of the Army D.D.C. 2018, Jackson v. Mayorkas N.D. Tex. 2022).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- indexed corpus through 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Negative finding is limited to CourtListener's indexed full text; state-court filings and MDL-875 case documents naming the hull could exist outside indexed coverage. Name-collision discipline applied: four Navy hulls have borne the name Reid (DD-21 1909-19, DD-292 1919-30, DD-369 1936-44, FFG-30 1983-98) plus Beverly W. Reid (APD-110); located hits are FFG-30-era or unrelated string matches. This hull's 1936-44 service predates the asbestos-litigation era.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-reid-dd369-07
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[9]NARA/archival leads: Reid deck logs (quoted directly in expanded DANFS); NHHC photograph catalog; NHHC Pearl Harbor Action Report collection; NARA RG 19 General Information Books; UMass Amherst MS 1047 Gardner/Wilson Collection [other_primary]
- Locator
- NHHC action-reports collection index (Reid entry listed); expanded DANFS footnotes/captions; NARA still-picture identifiers
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Primary-source leads not retrieved this batch: (1) Reid deck logs - the expanded DANFS quotes them directly (e.g., crossing-the-line entries 1943-44), held at NARA; (2) the NHHC Pearl Harbor Action Report collection index lists a 'USS Reid (DD-369) Action Report' - leaf URL unresolvable amid NHHC site reorganization; (3) NHHC/NARA photographs - NH 60503 (launch), NH 63126, NH 86752-54, NH 86794, BuShips photos 19-N-28719 and 19-N-48259/48263-265 (Mare Island, July 1943, alteration circles marked), 80-G-215364 (Dutch Harbor with RO-61 POWs), and Captain Rufus Porter Collection UA 460.19; (4) NARA RG 19 'General Information Books' may hold hull-level material specifications; (5) UMass MS 1047 holds survivor oral histories (2006) and the archived ussreid369.org site.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1936-1944 records
- Limitations
- Archival leads only - none retrieved or verified in full this batch. Deck logs and war diaries document operations, not materials; RG 19 GIB is the likeliest route to hull-level material specification if it survives for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-reid-dd369-08
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[10]U.S. Naval Institute, Naval History Magazine, 'Perilous Ordeal Off Leyte' (vol. 30, no. 1, February 2016) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- Naval History Magazine, February 2016 issue, 'Perilous Ordeal Off Leyte'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- USNI Naval History account of the sinking, drawn on survivor and convoy-ship records: on 11 December 1944 the Mahan-class Reid and five other destroyers escorted eight LSMs and five LCI(L)s around southern Leyte toward Ormoc Bay; at ~1700 Japanese fighters and torpedo bombers attacked; seven Zeke fighters broke through to Reid off the convoy's starboard bow; a damaged Zeke crashed the port quarter and its bomb detonated the after magazine; the ship lurched to starboard, throttles jammed at ~20 knots, and went down; survivors were strafed in the water before rescue by landing craft including LSM-42.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1944-12-11; article 2016
- Population
- Crew at loss and rescuing landing-craft crews
- Limitations
- Secondary retelling published by USNI (professional naval press) - casualty framing ('took half her crew') differs from the 103-of-268 memorial/archive figure and is carried in gaps. Direct fetch returned HTTP 403; content verified via indexed excerpts. No materials/asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-reid-dd369-09