sentences:  The port and airfields were the base for units of the Japanese 2nd Army and the 6th Air Division of the 4th Air Army.These totalled 14,000 men under the command of Maj. Gen. Kitazano and Rear Adm. Endo.To overcome this force the US 6th Army committed its 1st Corps under Lt. Gen. RL Eichelberger, some 50,000 men and a naval task force of 200 vessels of 7th Fleet under Rear Adm. DE Barbey.