Nimitz Graybook on DVD, 1941 Dec 7-1945 Aug 31

Running Estimate and Summary maintained by Captain James M. Steele, USN, CINCPAC staff at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, covering the period 7 December 1941 to 31 August 1942.

Digitized representation of materials contained in Series I, Subseries A (original copies), of Coll. 505, Papers of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN, maintained by the Archives Branch of the Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington, DC. The Command Summary, commonly referred to as the “Graybook” contains the CINCPAC (Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet) staff’s “running estimate of the situation” and summary of command decisions, as well as key dispatches received or originated by CINCPAC headquarters.

The 8 volumes are paginated as follows:

• Volume 1, 1941 Dec 7-1942 Aug 31 (pages 1 - 861)
• Volume 2, 1942 Sep 1-1942 Dec 31 (pages 862 – 1262)
• Volume 3, 1943 Jan 1-1943 Jun 30 (pages 1263 – 1612)
• Volume 4, 1943 Jul 1-1943 Dec 31 (pages 1613 – 1830)
• Volume 5, 1944 Jan 1-1944 Dec 31 (pages 1831 – 2485)
• Volume 6, 1945 Jan 1-1945 Jul 1 (pages 2486 – 3249)
• Volume 7, 1945 Jul 1-1945 Aug 31 (pages 3250 – 3548)
• Volume 8, 1941 Dec 30-1942 Apr 30 (Selected dispatches concerning the period and pertaining to the Battle of Midway. Pages are sequentially numbered. This volume contains dispatch copies, many of which were poorly reproduced at the time of compilation resulting in some portions are illegible.)