“NIMITZ GRAY BOOK”

Volume 1 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 7 December 1941–31 August 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.