Below are two tables with the number of aircraft participating in this mission.
The first is Table I from the 73rd Bomb Wing Mission Report and
states that 132 B-29s bombed the Primary Target.

The second table is from the XXI Bomber Command Tactical Mission Report 183.
This table has data on B-29s for the four Wings (58th, 73rd, 313th, and 314th ).

A total of 452 aircraft bombed Tokyo the night of 25-26 May 1945.

26 B-29s were lost on this mission and the cause of 20 of them is listed as Unknown.

At the bottom of Table I is the notation that
the Wing HQ TB-29 was flown by a 499th Bomb Group crew.

The Aircraft Commander was Brigadier General Emmett O'Donnell,
Commanding General, 73rd Bomb Wing (VH).

A few details of TB-29 appear in Page 4.

Page 2 is mainly about Navigation while Page 3 has a few documents concerning losses

INITIAL POINT IS AT LOWER LEFT
TARGET TOKYO IS MIDDLE CENTER
CHOSHI POINT IS AT LOWER RIGHT
RAMP QUEEN CRASH SITE WAS ON LAND IN THE AREA OF KASHIMA

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73RD BOMB WING MISSION REPORT
TABLE I
AIRCRAFT PARTICIPATING

original source: 73rd Bomb Wing Mission # 73 Report
National Archives, College Park Maryland

source: Jim Bowman
500th Bomb Group Memorial Association

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XXI BOMBER COMMAND TACTICAL MISSION REPORT 183

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source: Japan Air Raids
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XXI BOMBER COMMAND TACTICAL MISSION REPORT 183

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source: Japan Air Raids
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