Orders of battle for Downfall

Orders of battle for Downfall

The units slated to participate in Operation Downfall—the Allied invasions of Japan—as of about August 1945.

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Order of Battle for Olympic

Allied

Japan

    • 16th Area Army[~US Army] (Lt. Gen. Yokoyama Isamu) (600,000 men)
      • Northern Kyūshū—56th Army[~US Corps]:
        • 145th Div., 312th Div., 351st Div., 124th IM Brig.;
        • 57th Div. (20,000 men), 4th Tank Brig.[1]
      • Southeastern Kyūshū—57th Army (Lt. Gen. Nishihara Kanji) (150,000 men):
        • Tanegashima—109th IM Brig. (5,900 men)
        • Miyazaki—154th Div., 156th Div.; 212th Div.[1] (55,000 men)
        • Ariake—86th Div., 98th IM Brig., 1 reg., 3 inf. bat. (29,000 men)
        • 25th Div., 5th Tank Brig., 6th Tank Brig.[1]
      • Southwestern Kyūshū—40th Army (Lt. Gen. Nakazawa Mitsuo) (85,000 men):
        • 303rd Div. (12,000 men) (Sendai); 206th Div. (Fukiage); 146th Div., 125th IM Brig. (S. Satsuma Peninsula); 77th Div.,[1] 1 tank reg.
      • 216th Div.,[1] 4 brig.
    • 5,000 aircraft assigned as kamikazes, 5,000 aircraft available for kamikaze service, 7,000 aircraft in need of repair
    • 100 Kaiten manned torpedoes, 800 Shinyo suicide boats

Order of Battle for Coronet

Allied

Japan

  • 12 divisions (560,000 men) (as of August 1945)

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e The majority of these units (86,000 men total) would have been ordered to counterattack at Ariake, though it's questionable how many of the tanks would have been able to survive air attack.

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