Kammala wannan jumlar: Banaba (Ocean Island) ya kasance hedkwatar mulkin mallaka har zuwa lokacin da Burtaniya ta kwashe a 1942 yayin Yaƙin Pacific lokacin da Ocean Island da Gilbert Islands suka kasance
wanda Jafananci suka mamaye. Sojojin Amurka sun sauka a Funafuti a ranar 2 ga Oktoba 1942 da Nanumea da Nukufetau a watan Agusta 1943 kuma sun gina filin jirgin sama a kowane tsibiri da sauran sansanoni. Atolls na Tuvalu sun kasance a matsayin matsayi a lokacin shirye-shiryen yakin Tarawa da yakin Makin wanda ya fara a ranar 20 ga Nuwamba, 1943. Kanar Vivian Fox-Strangways, ita ce Kwamishinan mazaunin tsibirin Gilbert da Ellice Islands a 1941, wanda ke Funafuti.