Curtis E. LeMay Twentieth Air Force (Lt. Gen. Nathan Twining) (77,000 men) 1,000 B-29 Superfortresses Eighth Air Force (Lt. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle) Commonwealth forces Tiger Force (detached from RAF Bomber Command): 480–580 Avro Lancaster bombers (about half to be used as tankers for in-flight refuelling) Australian First Tactical Air Force 20 fighter/attack squadrons from the Royal Australian Air Force Japan Ground forces Second General Army Field Marshal Shunroku Hata Sixteenth Area Army Lieut. General Yokoyama Isamu (600,000 men) Northern Kyūshū — 56th Army Lieut. General Ichiro Shichida (365,000) 145th Division 312th Division 351st Division 124th Independent Mixed Brigade 57th Division (20,000 men) 4th Tank Brigade Southeastern Kyūshū — 57th Army Lieut. General Nishihara Kanji (150,000 men) Tanegashima—109th Independent Mixed Brigade (5,900 men) Miyazaki—154th Division, 156th Division, 212th Division (55,000 men) Ariake—86th Division, 98th Independent Mixed Brigade, 1 regiment, 3 infantry battalions (29,000 men) 25th Division, 5th Tank Brigade, 6th Tank Brigade Southwestern Kyūshū — 40th Army Lieut. General Nakazawa Mitsuo (85,000 men) 303rd Division (12,000 men) (Sendai) 206th Division (Fukiage) 146th Division, 125th Independent Mixed Brigade (S. Satsuma Peninsula) 77th Division 1 tank regiment 216th Division 4 brigades Air forces Air General Army General Masakazu Kawabe Sixth Air Army — Kyūshū 5,000 aircraft assigned as kamikazes, 5,000 aircraft available for kamikaze service, 7,000 aircraft in need of repair 100 Koryu-class midget submarines, 250 Kairyu-class midget submarines, 1,000 Kaiten manned torpedoes, 800 Shinyo suicide boats Order of Battle for Coronet Allied Ground forces First Army General Courtney H. Hodges III Amphibious Corps 1st Marine Division (Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Okinawa) 2nd Marine Division (Tarawa, Saipan, Okinawa) 6th Marine Division (Okinawa) XXIV Corps 7th Infantry "Bayonet" Division 27th Infantry "New York" Division 96th Infantry "Columbia" Division Eighth Army Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger X Corps 24th Infantry "Taro" Division 31st Infantry "Dixie" Division 37th Infantry "Buckeye" Division XIV Corps 6th Infantry "Red Star" Division 32nd Infantry "Red Arrow" Division 38th Infantry "Cyclone" Division XIII Corps (Reserve afloat) 13th Armored Division 20th Armored Division United States Army Forces Pacific reserve 97th Infantry "Trident" Division Thirty days after the initial assault, each army would be reinforced by a corps of 3 divisions. Five days later an airborne division and a United States Army Forces Pacific Reserve Corps of 3 divisions would be made available. Strategic reserve for the entire operation would consist of a corps of 3 divisions located in the Philippines and divisions from the