“NIMITZ GRAY BOOK” Volume 2 of 8

War Plans and Files of the Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet

Running Estimate and Summary maintained by Captain James M. Steele, USN, CINCPAC staff at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii,

covering the period 1 September 1942–31 December 1942.

The following series of images is the first step in the American Naval Records Society’s project to produce a scholarly on-line edition of this important, declassified, primary source.

At this early stage, ANRS is able to provide images of one of the copies of the “Gray Book” that are located in Papers of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz at the

Operational Archives, Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington Navy Yard, Washington D.C.

This copy consists of loose pages that could be readily scanned. Sections of some of the typed pages in this copy are blurry and difficult to read, and, in addition, this

copy does not show the color-coding that is present in the tightly-bound original.

This copy was produced through the generosity of the Naval War College Foundation, Newport, Rhode Island,

with donations received from the Naval Order of the United States and several individual Foundation members.

Scanned at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island

and electronically published by American Naval Records Society

Bolton Landing, New York 2010

AS A DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENT OF THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THIS PUBLICATION IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.