You want some of the USF (United States Fleet) booklets published before and during the war. An example is USF-10 of 1945. Appendix 1 starting on Page 206 of the PDF has some of the formations and descriptions - Cruising Disposition (CD) 3-C is on page 207, for example and is the first of four variations of Cruising disposition 3. There are no plans for 5B, but several other plans for review and study.
I just started getting in to these on my last trip to archives and unfortunately haven't seen them all to copy them and tell you if 5B is in any or if there's a master list of every single one. USF10 is 260 pages long though, and should give you a lot to read!
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